How do you change your beliefs about yourself if you want to? This is the last one of a mini-series of posts, running over the last few weeks, from Lou Tice at the Winners Circle about the beliefs we each hold about ourselves, and how they might affect us.

If you decide your beliefs aren’t working very well for you, how do you go about changing them?

I have suggested that you might read about successful people you admire and study their beliefs. Then, if you choose to, you may decide to make some of their beliefs your own.

How do you do this? Well, one way is to use your very powerful imagination. Ask yourself, “What would it look like if I believed I was confident, competent, and comfortable?” “What would it look like if I were warm, loving and joyful?” “How would I behave?” “How would I feel?” “How would I treat others?”

Close your eyes and picture your answer as vividly as possible. Feel the feelings, hear the sounds, and see it in living colour.

Affirm it in words as if it were true right now: “I am confident, competent, and comfortable!” “I am warm, loving and joyful!”

Repeat the process at least twice a day, every day, with full concentration. You see, your subconscious doesn’t know the difference between actual events and those you vividly imagine. If you eliminate negative self-talk at the same time, you will soon begin to behave like the new picture. Over time, it will become more like you than the old ways. Try it and see!

Lou Tice
The Pacific Institute

This whole series of posts has made sense to me, and I’m grateful that in this last one there is some indication as to how we might make the changes we may want to. The last few weeks of these posts have made me realize that perhaps I do need to.

But Lou method’s for making changes seems almost too easy, and I instinctively feel that it should be much harder. Which reminds me of the curing of Naaman’s leprosy in the Second Book of Kings, “‘if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, “Wash, and be clean”?’” (2 Kings 5:13) — and here’s a link to the passage on the Oremus Bible Browser: 2 Kings 5:7-17.

Things don’t have to always be hard; simple and easy can work too. I’ve found that to be true in many things.

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