I’d like to start this article with the quote from the French philosopher and inventor of the first mechanical calculator, Blaise Pascal.

‘You are today, where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you,
and you will be tomorrow
where the thoughts of today take you’

How true is that?!

Please refer back to the posting on internal filters and have a look at the graphic that shows the hierarchical position of belief systems.

Enjoy the 5.52 minutes AUDIO if it fits in better with your timing.Your thoughts stem from your values, which create your belief systems.

Your beliefs, based upon your values are theories not facts, but they are theory that you treat as though they were facts, and because of this, they tend to appear true.

I’ve taken this directly from the posting NLP and Values.

Our beliefs about ourselves stem from emotions.

If we feel disappointment or resentful, these emotions can affect what we believe about ourselves and therefore, how we perform.

For example:

Feeling overwhelmed can lead to disappointment or resentment and can lead to a feeling of:

• “I can’t do that’’, which becomes compounded to:
• “I could never do that.  I’m just not good at it, ever.”

and so, an internal ‘fact’, belief, has been created.

On the other hand, if you have previously had a favorable outcome for an activity, then each time you need to do the same or something similar, you will feel that you can do it, and you will do it, because that is now a part of your belief system.

Feelings encode and store how you have experienced something in the past, whether that experience was pleasant or unpleasant.

This will determine whether you will feel favorably or unfavorably when you meet up with the same experience or a similar one.

Some feelings are best forgotten, and you can do this through your subconscious mind; it does require some conscious work on your part though once it’s at that subconscious level.

The trick is to deal with it constructively at the moment it occurs on a conscious level so that it never actually negatively enters your neurology.

 Beliefs are responsible for the boundary conditions of our thinking, that is,

• If we think we can and we can
• If we think we can’t, we can’t
• I just can’t do it, that’s who I am
• I’ve always been good at this

Can you hear yourself saying these types of things?

You brainwash yourself with your emotions which create your thoughts, which create your beliefs

For better or for worse, till death do you part.

Dramatic, I know, but I’m trying to hammer a point.

Every time, you catch yourself saying that you can’t do something, really listen to yourself, and ask yourself:

“What would happen if I could?” and don’t come back with the response, “but I can’t”.

There is nothing stopping you from doing anything except yourself.

Your beliefs can either box you in or allow you to live your biggest and best and most wonderful life.

When ‘limitation thinking’ is a replaced by ‘limitless thinking’ you will fulfill your highest potential and BE the real you.

Decide today to make your beliefs about yourself and about others, the beliefs of excellence
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Don’t just pay lip-service to this belief of excellence, really feel it and mean it, believe it to your innermost core.

Remember to keep referring back to the NLP Presuppositions Parts 1 -5, they reinforce the ultimate potentiality that you and others have, and are when you eradicate, get rid of, delete, all  limiting beliefs, “lookout world here I come!”

Your beliefs can be heard in what you say to yourself and to others. 

Your beliefs are like the rules that run your life; they are your blueprint.

Do you want your Blueprint to be old, out-of-date, medieval, restrictive, or do you want to update your rulebook your Blueprint that has as its title.

“If I want to do it, I can, buster!!!!!”