“How can you not have insurance?”
“Because I spent my money on the Clapco D29, the most impenetrable lock on the market today. It has only one design flaw, the door must be closed!”
Do you believe in flying saucers?
How many times have you declared something lost, scoured the whole house and then found what you were looking for directly in front of you? It happens regularly, and is almost invariably preceded by the words: "I can’t find it"
How is it that you can’t see something that is right in front of your eyes? Or something which you’re sure is in your pocket, but no matter how hard you try, you cannot find it. Even when you turn your pockets out, it’s not there. And then you find it in the bottom of your pocket.
It all comes down to belief and expectation. These two powerful words define what kind of life you’re living, not just how long it takes to find your keys. You are living what you believe and expect to happen. These beliefs have been built up slowly over a long period of time, and you expectations follow your beliefs.
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 in their lives. Of course, we’re talking about things relating to you on the subjects of health, love, and money. For example, if you believe you are fat, ugly, unloveable, 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.
On a subtler scale, if you believe that as you age, your body deteriorates, your skin wrinkles and you become flabby, then you will have this experience. But it needn’t be so. If you believe that all of your lovers treat you badly and leave you for your best friend, then you will continue to attract people who will fulfill this prophecy. We form our beliefs, and the universe accommodates us. The question is what kind of beliefs do you hold, and are they what you want? If you believe that to be rich you have to work in a job which you hate, or that you have to work long and hard for your money, then you will have this experience. But is it what you want?
As far as life is concerned, we get to choose, and the world will back up our beliefs with solid evidence. Those who rise above the masses and excel in their chosen field understand this. They invariably have strong, unwavering minds, and an ability to focus on subjects which are important to them, on things that they want. They also have a determination to keep at it no matter what. This trained focus on thoughts forms their beliefs, which they end up living.
How does all of this belief and expectation affect the human race on a bigger scale? Well, if what I’m saying is true, then we can decide what we want to believe, and live it. It is true that you will end up living your beliefs, but beliefs are formed over a long period of time and it takes focus and training of the mind over time to change beliefs, and as the majority spend most of their time focussed upon what is happening around them rather than what they would prefer, the evolutionary progress is inevitably slowed.
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.
The reason that optimism and a forward looking mentality is so important in an economic wobble, is that if you look where you are going, you’ll get there. If you look at where you are, you’ll stay there. You can come up with all sorts of excuses why you can’t do something, but they will have been attracted to confirm your belief on the subject. Think outside the box, and start to attract evidence which shows you that anything is possible, and live that instead. If the majority of the UK population believe that the UK is in recession, then it is. If they believe that things are on the up, then they are improving. It may be individuals living individual lives, individual recessions if you will, but put them all together and you have something much bigger; millions depriving themselves of the abundance and well-being that would be there if they didn’t hold such negative beliefs. It could be right under their noses, but they wouldn’t be able to see it.
Do you believe in flying saucers? If you don’t, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be seeing them any time soon. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.
Andrew Goodman
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