Mid-week Inspiration

The hardest thing in the world to do is change.

Not your hair style. Not the wardrobe, the job, the car or the route you take to work. 

All of those things are small; they are relatively easy to change and they make relatively small differences in the overall picture. 

The really hard changes are your beliefs. 

It is a well known fact in our democratic system that the average voter will vote the same way all his or her life.  Conservatives will remain conservative and likely their children will be conservatives, Liberals will be Liberals all their lives.  People do not easily change their beliefs even when those beliefs are apparently self defeating.  Alcoholics will drink themselves to death when lacking serious support for changing beliefs, core beliefs. 

And, like them, you and I have likely got dysfunctional beliefs.  Beliefs that will often hurry us along to our graves.

We can’t see them for they are the patterns of our seeing.

To change them we first must accept that we have them. 

On faith. 

Without any indication of what they are or even any proof of their existence. 

So how do we do that?  The answer is far simpler than the action necessary. 

First, before we go any further, we must accept that we are the cause of our lives.  Even today with all the scientific proof supporting this simple reality, most people will deny such personal power. 

Assuming that any of us are truly ready, willing and capable of embracing such a notion all we need do is pay attention to what isn’t working in our lives and feelings.

Then the hard part comes; we must take ownership.

“I am the creator of even this.” 

Our thoughts words and actions inevitably lead us to every event in our lives. 

This is the only way that God reaches out to us.  We are beings of complete free will and it is on the level of our thinking and feeling that we exercise this unlimited freedom.

Sounds simple enough, just change your thoughts and your life will change.