SHIFTING GEARS

Greetings and happy manifesting! Shifting beliefs from disempowering towards empowering requires persistence, perseverance, and above all patience, it is a process and you cannot ''force'' your beliefs to change, no shortcuts here. In the past few months I've been undergoing some major belief shifts and the side effects are nothing short of an emotional roller coaster ride. Shifting beliefs are no picnic because what we're dealing with is our subconscious mind here, we all know that our very own subconscious mind controls our bodily functions as well as our emotions, when we begin to let go of beliefs that no longer serve us [to get what we desire] it's going to cause some discomfort and that's putting it very lightly! The process of shifting beliefs can, at times, grow beyond frustrating even overwhelming, this is because the old beliefs [programs] will hold on for dear life, especially if they have years of momentum behind them, again, this is a process that requires much patience as well as self forgiveness on our part. Because we desire change so badly we may try to rush along the belief shifting process and when we fail to make those huge leaps we'll begin to beat ourselves up and assume we're doing something wrong, this will only compound the problem and feed even more momentum towards the already existing disempowering beliefs. It is very critical that we learn self forgiveness while letting go of limited beliefs because there will be times where we'll begin to feel our newly empowered beliefs shifting, we'll know because we will sense a feeling of lightness and relief, a day or two passes, then all of the sudden an unwanted circumstance occurs and re-validates the very belief we thought we had shifted, frustrated, we'll assume that there's something wrong with us or, we're simply doing something wrong, this is not the case. It's important to understand that we are ALWAYS moving towards what we want [desire] even though a lot of the time it will feel like we're going backwards, this is when it is necessary to change our perception and stay the course. Whenever we make any progress shifting our beliefs the old beliefs will challenge the newer beliefs, this will create some intense contrast so vigilance is paramount as we must maintain constant focus on what is wanted, if we cave emotionally when the old beliefs surface [challenging our new beliefs] we could fall backwards and delay our progress so the more we're focusing on what we DON'T want the harder it will be and the longer it will take to shift our beliefs towards what's desired. As I said above, no matter how hard we try we cannot force our beliefs to change, I cannot stress this enough because the harder we try [believing we'll get what we want faster] the harder the disempowered limited beliefs will push back and eventually reinforce themselves impeding any progress whatsoever, it is a futile approach. Shifting beliefs requires a gentle approach and learning self forgiveness is crucial for success, we must learn to come from a space of non-judgment during this process. If I could nail this all down in one phase It would be the letting go phase and we are simply doing just that, this is why we cannot force this process, we can try, but good luck with that, our old limited beliefs must ''dissolve'' gradually and naturally, we can't fight them because that is a fight we just can't win, we may have years or even decades of limited beliefs to contend with, so self forgiveness will always be our best ally when we're shifting beliefs. Only you can identify your own limited beliefs, no one else can for you, but how do you know what your limited beliefs are? What do you want? If you're finding many reasons why you CAN'T have what it is that you want look no further, you've found your limited beliefs, of course you're still moving towards what you want but very slowly, [while shifting beliefs] on the other hand if you can find many reason why you CAN have what it is that you want, you will be moving towards what you want much faster and you'll not only know it but you'll also feel it. I could write several posts about this subject in and of itself as I've experienced it myself personally, so it's a safe bet that I'll cover more ground here with the topic of shifting beliefs. In closing this post, allow me to attempt to simplify this a little with this analogy, think of your emotions [vibration] like gears, high gear [joy/appreciation] speedier manifestations, low gear [worry/frustration] slow and delayed manifestations.