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Are You Limited By Your Beliefs?

You know the one thing I miss the most when I travel? Harley-Davidsons. Obviously I cannot tuck a Lowrider in my back pocket and take it on the plane with me. Wherever I travel my ears always are listening for that low pulsating rumble to come out of the distance. They are unmistakable. My heart belongs on a Harley. I remember once I was in Italy in Assisi. The city is on a hill so you could look out over miles and miles of farmland. I was out on the hotel’s veranda overlooking the valley. It was about 9pm. Then out of the distance I picked it up. First faint, then growing louder with each second. A familiar loping. In a country populated by Vespas and mopeds here was coming an honest to goodness piece of American metal. I closed my eyes and listened as the rider would accelerate through the gears then back off for a curve, then accelerate again. It was music to my ears.

Ever rode on a Harley at night in Italy? Press the play button button below, put your gloves and helmet on, kick her into first gear and let your imagination run wild. This MP3 just melts me. Turn your speakers up full blast and turn your imagination up full blast.

I want you to try an experiment now.

Close your eyes, imagine you are listening to Melissa (press the play button above) in your earphones. It’s 2:37am. Somewhere in the middle of Texas on a long 2 lane deserted highway. The steady loping thunder sound reverberates in your ears in the background of Greg Allman’s voice. The engine heat comes up enough to warm your legs and thighs. Your steed settles into a gallop at 85 MPH. Next stop Marquez, Texas in 68 miles. Population 233 souls. ETA 48 minutes. Between here and Marquis all you see is miles and miles of pitch black and a carpet of stars thrown across the sky aka The Milky Way. Back in Houston you can’t see the milky way at night. Out here even the air smells sweet and the night sky is something only seen in science fiction movies. You decide to bump it up to 95 MPH. You are all alone, no one is on the road this late. New ETA 43 minutes to travel 68 miles. Mile after mile disappears while your mind is far away. It’s like magic. 5 minutes pass like 10 seconds. You shake your head and 15 miles have gone by while you were somewhere else. The loping engine beats keep gently pounding you. The deep pulsating thunder of the exhaust reverberates all around you. You put your boots back up on the highway pegs and begin to merge into this mechanical beast. After a while you become one not knowing where you end and the beast begins.

Could you ride a motorcycle at 100+ mph in pitch blackness all by yourself at 2am out in the middle of nowhere? Your answer to that reveals your belief system. You see, your subconscious beliefs will determine to a large degree what you can or cannot do. If you believe you’ll kill yourself or hit a deer then those images will hold you back regardless if they are true or not. If your image is one of a free spirit that loves the wind in your hair and loping mechanical thunder in your ears then that image will propel you to be a midnite rider. Did you know half your beliefs are formed by the time you are 5 years old? I rode on my first motorcycle when I was 5 and they’ve been in my blood since. My next door neighbor drove a red 1965 Honda Dream 305. One ride on that and it was all over. Motorcycles have infected me since.

You see, your subconscious mind holds many core beliefs about the world and about you. Whether they are true or not makes no difference. They are core beliefs that your subconscious mind uses to keep a reference on the world. It uses those core beliefs as a survival mechanism. Don’t touch fire, don’t drink acid, don’t fly in a thunderstorm, don’t stick your finger in an electrical socket. Those are very deeply held subconscious core beliefs that safeguard you from danger. Outer core subconscious beliefs such as the cost of corn is going up are easier to change. Your subconscious will not balk too much at those outer core beliefs. BUT challenge an inner core belief and WATCH OUT!! Your subconscious likes order and predictability. Try and change an inner core subconscious belief and you are in for a catfight. A big one! Your inner core beliefs is how your subconscious sees the world. Upset one of those core beliefs and Houston, we have a problem.

Imagine you walked into a room. A woman in that room began to float off the floor and stay suspended 5 feet off the floor. That image would short circuit your subconscious mind. Because of the gravity belief and all things are supposed to walk on the ground. You are watching a woman stand motionless in the air, 5 feet off the ground without any support whatsover and your subconscious is flipping out. The picture is not right. Long cherished beliefs are being heavily challenged. Your subconscious does not like long cherished beliefs to be challenged. It will ask your conscious mind to check again the woman, surely she is being held up by wires. You report no she’s not. Nothing is supporting her. She is floating and turning somersaults in midair. Your subconscious screams again to check for mirrors, invisible wires, anything!! People do not just float in midair your subconscious mind says. Check again to be sure! I checked again and yes she is floating!! At this point you would probably run screaming from the room from shock. One of the biggest core beliefs you have is being challenged. Your subconscious mind freaks out and you run jabbering from the room like a lunatic. All because your subconscious mind’s inner core belief systems was coming up against something opposite of it’s belief. Your subconscious mind will do ANYTHING to hold onto it’s most cherished inner core beliefs. It has taken decades to build it and NOTHING BUT NOTHING is going to alter your subconscious minds view of the world.

The beliefs you hold right now in your subconscious mind allow you to see the world a certain way. If there was a way you could instantly change your inner core subconscious beliefs like you instantly change radio stations then you would experience a different world instantly. The challenge arises how to change your inner core subconscious beliefs. Your subconscious mind will kick and scream anytime an inner core belief is attempted to be changed. It uses those for your survival and will not change them without a fight. It takes incredible effort to change those inner core beliefs. And those inner core beliefs about how the world should appear also extend to how your subconscious feels you should appear to the world. Whether that appearance is one of poverty or failure or success. Whatever your inner core subconscious belief is about yourself is what your subconscious mind will attempt to keep. So if you have an inner core subconscious picture of yourself as always failing in business then no matter the opportunities presented to you one by one all the opportunities will fail sooner or later to keep that inner core image intact.

Even if you buy the most surefire business in the world something will pop up sooner or later to take it all away. Success does not comply with your subconscious mind’s inner core belief of failure. Success goes against that inner core belief and the subconscious mind cannot have that. It must see failure in the exterior world to keep the inner core beliefs in check.

If You Think You Can’t
OR
If You Think You Can
You’re Right!

You can buy all the businesses in the world and all the books and all the tools and all the seminars but nothing will change for you until you change your inner core subconscious beliefs. Once you have the inner core subconscious belief of success your subconscious mind HAS TO MAKE SURE YOUR EXTERIOR WORLD MATCHES YOUR INNER CORE BELIEFS OF SUCCESS.

Yes, Laurie, thats all well and good but how do I change my inner core subconscious beliefs I hear you say. The inner core beliefs that practically refuse to be changed. The inner core subconscious beliefs I’ve had since I was knee high to my dad. Yes, that is the question..how do you change them. I want you to go back above to my experiment. Take another look at that experiment. Do you know why I did that experiment for you? I did it because your subconscious mind deals in images and your conscious mind deals in thoughts.

Let me ask you this. If your subconscious mind deals in images and if you want to change your inner core subconscious beliefs what would be the right way to go about changing them? That’s right..you change your inner core subconscious beliefs by concentrating on images. Close your eyes and imagine you are shooting basketball hoops from the free throw line. Practice throwing the hoops over and over and over in your mind. See yourself doing it so vividly you cannot tell the difference between your inner image and the real world. Like a dream except you are having the dream while awake. A waking lucid dream. That image you see of yourself practicing hoops will get the same if not better results as if you practiced on a real physical court.

This is how you program (re-program) your subconscious mind. By visualizing images. Visualizing is too weak a word for the process but I am at a loss for words for it using the available english language. The closest I can come using english is to say you close your eyes and enter a dream while wide awake. The dream becomes so real for a few moments you see yourself accomplishing the thing you need to accomplish. Rest assured you will be in great company with the likes of Tesla, Ford, Mozart and the Wright Brothers. How many times did the Wright Brothers see themselves flying in their mind. How many times was an image of themselves flying played over and over and over again on the screen of Wilbur and Orvilles mind? 100 times? 1,000 times? 100,000 times? If there was just one time in history I could choose to go back to it would be the morning of December 17th 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. A dream pursued for thousands of years was about to come true.

L

Somewhere In Ko Samui

“Something is about to happen. Something very wonderful.”

This post was composed under the mystical influence of Melissa by the Allman Brothers Band

Add comment November 7th, 2006

Things That Make You Go Hmmm…..

I was doing some editing tonight and opened a large 400+ page DOC file. I wanted to see if a new gadget installed right. I quickly scrolled down 10 or 15 pages into the doc file and left click selected some text at random. After I pasted it I was a little blown away. If you read my other posts about burning desire you’ll understand. What text did I happen to grab at random for a tool check? Read it below. This stuff happens all the time.

“You must have a burning desire to achieve these aims. A wishy-washy half-hearted approach simply will not do”

L

Somewhere In Hong Kong Listening To “Cant Get It Out Of My Head” by ELO

“What I want to learn, they don’t teach in schools”

Add comment August 27th, 2006