The Belief-Ware That Programs Reality

Dr. Sheila's message on Sunday, July 6th was titled, "Build Better Beliefs." She spoke about how our past experiences can sometimes limit our beliefs. And when our beliefs are limited we cannot live to our full potential. This is such a fundamental idea in Religious Science. Ernest Holmes wrote that "our belief sets our limit in our demonstration." So how do we change those beliefs that are not serving us in order to obtain the things we most want?

Dr. Sheila said that we must first challenge or rewrite our belief system. Gregg Braden in his book, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, refers to this as "the belief-ware that programs reality." We need to have higher expectations in order to create bigger possibilities. Take a look at what's not working in your life. There is likely a limiting belief behind it. Do you wish you had more prosperity? Are you still looking for the "perfect" relationship? Do you want better health? Can you discover what limiting belief might be behind that?

One thing that I realized is that while it is sometimes easy to "think" about these ideas of prosperity, the perfect relationship, better health than it is to "feel" them. I can talk about how I am pure and perfect and whole, and how everything I desire is already available to me in the present. But I'm just intellectualizing it. I am not always feeling it. And in turn I am not always demonstrating what I want in my life.

Dr. Sheila encouraged us to determine what our barriers (limiting beliefs) are and to work in consciousness to change them. The first step, of course, is to focus on what you really want. Sometimes that is more difficult than it sounds! I catch myself occasionally stating what I don't want instead of what I do want. Dr. Sheila suggested spending 30 minutes a day visualizing what it is you really want. It's important to tap into how it would really feel to have, be or do that thing. Her challenge to the congregation was to really find that one thing that we really want to transform in our lives. Then to do that work in consciousness that will result in a demonstration. What is it that you really want? Are you willing to spend 30 minutes a day to have it?

Hugs and Love,
Cindy Huff