How many times have you declared something lost (like your keys), scoured the whole house and then found what you were looking for directly in front of you? It happens regularly, and is almost invariably associated with the words: “It’s lost, I can’t find it”.
Why couldn’t you see what you were looking for? It was right in front of you. Or perhaps something you knew was in your pocket, and even though you’ve emptied your pockets, you still can’t find it, and then you find it in your pocket.
It’s really all about belief and expectation. Belief and expectation is what makes your life happen the way it does. In the same way that if you believe your keys are lost you wont see them, if you do not believe something, you will not see the evidence to back it up. Your beliefs have not come to you overnight, they are the process of years of life and millions of thoughts, the same is true of your expectations.
If you could say instead: “It’s here somewhere, I’ll have a look and find it”, even to yourself, you’re focussed on the solution and headed towards it. It would magically appear before your eyes. Whereas if you believe it is lost, you cannot find it because as far as you are concerned, it is lost, and so it is invisible to your eyes.
People rarely make the jump from this simple example, which everyone has lived, to the more important and serious beliefs they hold on the important subjects in their lives. Of course, we’re talking about health, love, and money. For example, if you believe you are fat, ugly, unlovable, or poor, you will never be other than these, and you will miss the opportunities that life gives you to improve your situation, even if they are right in front of your nose, as you won’t recognise them when they come.
If you think that as you get older, your body is going to age and wrinkle and deteriorate until you are in hospital with plastic tubes up your nose, this will probably be your experience. It needn’t be this way, however. If, because of a string of bad relationship, you are always left by your lover for someone else, your belief will attract men who help you to reinforce this belief. Admittedly some of our beliefs are formed by the lives that we live, but we can can change them with a little effort. What kind of beliefs do you hold on the subjects that are important to you? Do you believe that to become rich you have to put others down, that you must work long and hard at a job that you dislike? Do you like these beliefs and where they’re leading you?
You really do get to choose. Life is a blank slate. Decide what you want and give it your full attention. Not where you’re standing, but where you want to go. All men are born equal; they have equal access to the abundance of life. Some are trained into believing that they are not free, and in the same way that the small elephant tied to the post when young never breaks away even when an adult, people remain imprisoned by their own limiting beliefs. No-one can hold you against your will. Great business leaders understand the formula for success. Focus, determination and very little regard for what anyone else thinks. The formula is dynamite. No-one can stand in your way.
When we apply this logic to the population as a whole, it is easy to see how things such as recessions occur. Although we can believe what we want to, and live what we want to, the majority take their objects of focus from ‘what is going on’ as presented by the media. They keep us informed, feed our beliefs, and generally prolong the status quo, whatever that may be. If people had the ability to focus on where hey wanted to go, the human race would evolve at a much faster pace.
But it is true that if you can conceive it, and focus on it enough that you start to believe it, that the world will give you endless evidence to back up your beliefs. As your beliefs grow stronger, you will start to know, and then you will start to live them. Make your thoughts and beliefs deliberate, and watch how the universe changes to accommodate you. I didn’t say it was easy, but it does work.
When things are looking a bit wobbly economically, it is important to keep an eye on where we want to go, and not get so bogged down in the detail. Unfortunately the UK press is about the worst offender when it comes to depressing, negative news anywhere in the world. If you want to know why our recession is worse than any other, look no further. If you don’t look at where you want to go, you will not move in that direction. Argue all you want for reasons why you can’t do something, but know that they are your limitations, and yours alone. Realise that you alone are in charge of your life, and you need to focus on what you want, to get to where you want to go.
If most of the UK believe we’re in a recession, then we are in recession. If most believe that we’re recovering, then the economy is on the mend. What is economy if not the people’s perception of value? It may be happening on a grass roots level, with individuals living their own lives, their own little recessions, but if millions think similarly, you have a recession. That doesn’t mean that there is no money available, but that through their beliefs, people literally cannot see opportunities that lie right in front of them, because their beliefs say otherwise. If you’re convinced that nobody loves you, your ideal life partner could come up to you, showing clear interest in you, and you wouldn’t have a clue what was going on. You wouldn’t be able to see it, even if it was right in front of your nose.
