Belief Busters

Some believe knowledge is the simple awareness of bits of information. Understanding is the awareness of the connectedness of this information. It is understanding, which allows knowledge to be put to use. Understanding represents a higher level than simple knowing. Understanding is wisdom.

Understand that what's offered in the course is not about right or wrong in any way. The perspectives, insights, ideas, tools, techniques, etceteras, are simply what are being offered. Your job is to try them on and see if they fit... if there is value and these ideas are useful for you.

Buckminster Fuller once said that there are four kinds of people in the world:

Those who are sound asleep... those who are about to wake up... those who have just awakened... and those who are wide awake.

There is no mental judging about this. No one of these states of being is either right or wrong or better or not than another. That's just where those people are at in their lives and that's more than fine - it's perfect.

It will be the same with BeliefBusters. There will be people who are sound asleep to it. Some are just about to awaken to these ideas. Others are just waking up to what this is all about. And there will be people who are wide awake to it... that are already convinced this material has value and will be useful for them, and they are willing and able to go for it and grow with it.

Two common values those wide awake folks share is that they all want more and better in their lives than they are creating and experiencing now. That's one of the things that make BeliefBusters such an exciting, challenging, satisfying and rewarding "place" to be. When thousands of people all around the world are coming together with the burning desire to be... do... and have more and better in all aspects of their lives... that's a remarkably creative, high energy, spiritual happening. That's where BeliefBusters takes you to work and play.

BeliefBusters is about the actions that take place in your mind and your heart.

The principles and practicals explored and expressed in BeliefBusters rest on a number of essential ideas: Everything is always and already energy (and energy is vibration)... Our inner world generates our outer world... "Thoughts do," as Mike Dooley says, "become things..." We are each responsible for all that we have, do and be in our lives... The truth of Napoleon Hill's enduring wisdom: "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can [and always does] achieve." You and I are infinitely powerful spiritual beings directly connected to the Source of All That Is....

There is more, of course, but... do you agree with what's written above?

If you do, then what you've read confirms what you've been thinking and that's a good thing... feels good, too (which is what lets you know it's a good thing).

But what if you disagree? Well, that can be a very good thing. Here's why:

Well...to find out WHY (and much, much more)I recommend you take this course by going right here: BeliefBusters

This is the first of many Lessons you'll be getting before diving into applying the BeliefBusters process itself. Each Lesson contains information to increase your knowledge and awareness and deepen your understanding and wisdom, which will enable you to work and play with BeliefBusters with greater competence, confidence and comfort.

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So...

What's Most Important to You...?

On anybody's list of "Great Questions," that one has to rank way up top. For the moment, let's put it in first place and here's why...

What's really important to you - right now, this very minute...?

The reason that's such a great question is that you always do what's most important to you at any given moment. If it - whatever "it" is - isn't important, you won't and don't do it. And, I did say and do mean always.

What's important to you right now is reading these words. If the phone rings and you stop reading and answer it, you do so because... that's what's most important to you. If you glance at your caller ID and see it's an 800 number you're not familiar with, you don't answer the phone, because... it's not important. (Or it's a number you recognize and you DO NOT want to speak with... then that's what's most important.)

An act or a thing is important to you, because you make it important...
Because you say so.

You are in control of what you make important - no one else. And of course, you can be influenced.

What's important is a choice you make.

That's what it is and all it is. Like choosing vanilla or chocolate. Do you have a reason for choosing one flavor of ice cream or the other? No, not really, you simply choose. (Oh you can make up a reason, but truth is it's just a choice.)

What you make important is just like that. No reason. Just choice.

A choice is an either/or deal, because choice is always a relative thing: Do you want this or that? Go here or there? Now or later?

Well, can't you choose both?

How very clever. No, you can't. Try going here and going there - say New York and LA - at the same time and let me know how that works for you.

What's important about "What's important?" is that some choices serve and empower you, and some do not.

For example:

Do I make that phone call or check my email?
Go to the Thursday meeting or have a girl's night out?
Work on my self-development or let it go 'til tomorrow?
Play with the kids or...

In each of these examples, you will choose what's most important to you at the time, in the moment. To help you make choices that forward your progress, you can simply ask yourself:

What choice is for the highest good of myself and all concerned right now?

And that's the one you do.

You'll have lots of opportunities throughout our work together with BeliefBusters to choose with increasing clarity and awareness what's most important to you. Take care not to be distracted and misdirected by reasons from your rational/analytical mind. You'll find that although they seem reasonable, they're simply explanations at best, excuses at worst. That's because that's not the part of the mind that should be making your choices...

BeliefBusters

One of the first mistakes people make when they begin to explore changing their beliefs is to continue doing things the same way they've always them done before. Makes sense, of course. You are competent doing those things and therefore feel confident and that makes you comfortable.

So, what's the very first thing people do when they encounter the same old same old isn't really working the way they want? Try harder.

There are two problems with this: For one thing, there's the word try itself. It just doesn't make any sense in this context. And second is the notion of trying harder.

First, let's take on this business of try.

Simply put, there's no such thing as try - outside of trying a new food you've never tasted or trying on clothing to see how it looks and fits. But the idea of trying to do something... nope. Here, let me prove it to you.

Right now, stop whatever else you're doing and reach out and try to touch something close to you; a book, a pen, your nose. Go ahead. Right now. Try...

So, how'd you do?

Did you experience that you either touched it - or you didn't?

Master Yoda was right when he said, "Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do."

Okay, we've just nailed the idea of try, now how about this harder bit?



Let me share a story with you I learned from Dr. Price Pritchett's superb little book you2:

I'm sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It's just past noon, late July, and I'm listening to the desperate sounds of a life - or - death struggle going on just a few feet away.

There's a small fly burning out the last of its short life's energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the fly's strategy - try harder.

But it's not working.

The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination.

This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.

Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.

Why doesn't the fly try another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route and determined effort, offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing until death, to seek a break-through with "more of the same"?

No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it's an idea that will kill.

"Trying harder" isn't necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it's a big part of the problem...

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is one common definition of insanity.

Think for a moment: If you worked twice as hard as you are now, would that make a difference? Is that even possible - twice as hard?

(And while you're at it, consider what would happen if you were twice as smart... is that really possible?)

If you aren't having, and doing, and being all you dream of in your life and work, trying harder clearly isn't the answer.

Doing things differently is.

So, how do you begin to do things differently?

I recommend BeliefBusters

In the introduction to his groundbreaking best seller, The Inner Game® of Tennis, author Tim Gallwey wrote:

Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an Inner Game®. The outer game is played against an external opponent to overcome external obstacles and to reach an external goal. Mastering this game is the subject of many books offering instructions on how to swing a racket, club or bat, and how to position arms, legs or torso to achieve the best results. But for some reason, most of us find these instructions easier to remember than to execute.

Mr. Gallwey goes on to explain that real success in the playing of any game must include attention to the skills of the Inner Game®...

...the game that takes place in the
mind of the player.

He points to such internal obstacles as lack of concentration, nervousness and self-doubt as "habits of mind" that must be overcome before excellence in performance and producing winning results will be accomplished. He writes further:

The player of the Inner Game® comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers a true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret of winning any game lies in not trying too hard. He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance, which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again. Moreover, while overcoming the common hang-ups of competition, the player of the Inner Game® uncovers a will to win which unlocks all his energy and which is never discouraged by losing.

Honestly, doesn't that sound wonderful? Wouldn't you enjoy being calm, at one with your body, surpassing your limits again and again, and in the process uncovering a will to win that's never discouraged by losing?

Seems like great (and perhaps even profitable) fun to me. And what if you could do that in the game of life - what would that look like to you? What would that mean for you?

Life is a game.... just like any and every other game you've ever played.

There's a field of play, there are rules, gear and goals and required skills... all of which you need in order to play. And when you arrive at a certain level of competence and confidence where you consistently play the game well, you will win and you can keep on winning.

The skills and attitudes you need to succeed and be a winner in any endeavor are the very same ones you need to succeed in life itself.

You can learn what you need to know about "how" to do most things competently with a little effort done consistently over time.

The Inner Game® is the game that must be mastered before you can succeed on purpose, consistently, for the rest of your life.

The Inner Game® is simply, The Greatest Game in the World! And it is what BeliefBusters is all about.

Contrary to the title, in this Lesson you'll be exploring (not exploding) a number of ideas about the mind we'll be using in BeliefBusters, which I recommend you DO NOT accept as true, but simply try on (like a pair of shoes) and see if they fit... learn if they're valuable and useful for you.

The "Zero Point Field," is a subatomic field of unimaginably large quantum energy in so-called empty space. The Field connects everything in the universe to everything else, like some vast invisible web. The solid stable stuff we call matter is an illusion and is simply subatomic particles constantly moving and being gripped on by the background sea of energy, the Field. Everything in our world boils down to a collection of electric charges interacting with the Zero Point Field. It's a bit like the Force in Star Wars.
The Field: The Quest For The Secret Force Of The Universe
-- Lynne McTaggart

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Admittedly, I'm having some self-indulgent fun with the title of this report and that bit above from The Field. As I began writing about the mind, the first thought I had was this subject is truly a minefield. Everywhere I stepped there was conflict, complexity, confusion and chaos. Tough going when you're seeking clarity and awareness.

Comedian George Carlin, taking off on the tagline from the United Negro College Fund's famous advertising campaign of 1972, quipped, "The mind is a terrible thing..." and although we all know the human mind is an absolutely awesome, literally brilliant masterpiece of creation, attempting to understand and explain the mind with the mind can be difficult.

"The Inner Game®" of anything is the one played in your mind...." So, a pretty obvious, even mandatory place to begin our explorations and learning about BeliefBusters would be answering the question, "What is the mind?"

Well, I don't really know what the mind is. And I trust you will find this fact as fascinating as I do: Neither does anyone else...

For more, MUCH MORE... you really oughta take the BeliefBuster's Course

Imagineering: The application of cognitive and intuitive principles and processes to the formation of a mental picture or vision of something that is neither a real experience nor present to the senses at that moment in time.

Imagineer: The work performed by or the profession of one who is engaged in imagineering.

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Imagineering is the ultimate powerful-tool
for Belief Busting and Belief Building.

Fact is, we are all imaginers and we've been actively imagineering our entire lives. An image is a picture. The imagination "thinks" in pictures. That's how it sees things-literally.

Our memories, FADWAs (Fear. Anger. Doubt. Worry. Anxiety.), intentions and expectations, preferences, certainties, dreams, nightmares, beliefs-all the products of our imagination whether desirable and empowering or not-begin predominantly as pictures. It's the job of the rational/analytical part of the mind to explain or interpret those images and put them into words and to translate what we feel (emotions) into the language(s) we speak as well. Remember, the creative/ intuitive/ imaginative mind doesn't speak English or any other language. It communicates in pictures and patters, sensing and feeling.

The power of imagineering lies in the fact that the deeper levels of our minds-what many call the subconscious, because it exists and operates mostly below the surface of our conscious awareness-accepts all experiences whether actual or made up as the real thing.

Given that, you can see how FEAR-False Experience Appearing Real-can be such a controlling influence on our lives.

You imagineer something unwanted or scary that hasn't actually happened, but you're expecting it will.

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Did you know that you could take control of your wonderful, creative imagination? The processes in the BeliefBusters course are designed to empower you in just that way so start the course today!

If you're old enough - and the 76 million 50-ish year-old Baby Boomers in America certainly are - you may remember Mad magazine, and its freckle-faced every-boy on the cover, Alfred E. Newman, with his ever-present slogan, "What, me worry?"

The arguably more educated and "literate" fans of Beowulf - the legendary hero of the eighth century Eald English epic poem - and every one else who's ever worried about anything, will appreciate the etymology of the word worry:

It comes from the Old English word wyrgan - which means to strangle.

I have a brown leather folder where I carry my current project papers, pad, pen, some business cards, and etceteras. Stuck on the inside where I'll never miss seeing it, is a tatter-battered, blue-green Post-It® note on which is written:

"What you worry about will come about. Please, change worry to vision NOW!"

Wise advice. I do worry sometimes and it does "strangle" me.

Is that true for you - is worry strangling you, getting in the way of your achieving "excellence in performance and producing winning results"?

Worry, of course, is just part of being born a human being. The moment we dream, have a desire, think we deserve something or make up a grand or even merely good idea, worry and doubt are right there, too, waiting to spoil the party with a creative cascade of dark-and-darker thoughts of "no possibility" and all the limiting reasons why it cannot and won't happen.

And it's NOT just worry. The are a number of other cunning co-conspirators in this gang of self-saboteurs. Let me explain what I mean with a recent piece from my GreatestNetworker.com/Weblog:

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A Fatwah on FADWA
A fatwah is a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar. Osama bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims "...to take up arms against the United States," which apparently resulted in the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center.

The term first came to the attention of Westerners more than a dozen years earlier when Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, called for author Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing The Satanic Verses (1988). Rushdie spent nearly a decade largely underground, in fear for his life.

Being a personal growth & development "scholar", I am issuing a fatwah of my own: A Fatwah on FADWA.

FADWA is an acronym or initialism with the letters standing for Fear Anger Doubt Worry Anxiety.

FADWAs are the greatest enemies to health, wealth and joy that exist. They are the killers of success in all forms.

And I am calling for their death.

FADWAs are memories and beliefs (habits of thought) that go far beyond simply dis-empowering. They are the cold-blooded killers of living and working in 3D - as we Desire, Dream and Deserve. They are criminals and they are terminally and mentally insane; hence they are irreconcilable, irredeemable and incapable of rehabilitation. However, they are NOT indelible. They can be erased, removed, washed-away.

FADWAs are pervasive worldwide. They exist in everyone.

What is mandatory is for each and every human being to accept complete personal responsibility for ALL the FADWAs of the world.

They are NOT someone else's problem.
They are NOT outside forces.
They are all WITHIN US.

HOW you execute (intended) your Fatwah on FADWA is, of course, up to you. And I am happy to explore all the different approaches with you...

My current modus operandi is inspired by Alice in Wonderland and the Queen of Hearts command, "Off with their heads!"

Or, in this case... off with mine.
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I don't know about you, but when it comes to worrying or any of the other FADWAs, my creativity seems to be at its most brilliant best. I can create rationale after reason on top of all manner of unforeseen whys and wherefores for what will prevent me from being able to accomplish this... have, do or be that.

If you do that, too, we've got to stop-right now. Either that, or let that old monster Wyrgan strangle us!

And the way to do it is really quite simple:

Change worry to vision.

And to learn the process for doing THAT...
you really want to take the BeliefBusters Course!

Let's talk about why Vision works-speaking scientifically, ala "The Physics of Creativity."

Your Vision is a picture (an image, from imagination) of who and how you are, and what your life and your circumstances are like. It's something you imagineer. We all have a Vision. If you want to know what yours' is, look at your life. That's what you've envisioned your life to be like up until now. (Harsh perhaps, depending on your circumstances, but nonetheless true.)

Vision is also the power tool we use to create intentions, expectations, new experiences, reinvent past memories and to change beliefs to bring our desires and dreams into reality.

Let me explain why that's so and what makes it work using something I learned from Robert Fritz (Author of the superb book The Path of Least Resistance).

Imagine that you're holding a rubber band between your left and right hands. When you move your hands apart, what happens to the rubber band? It stretches... right?

And what does that stretched rubber band "want" to do? Come back together; to relax the tension-yes?

What this demonstrates is a simple principle of science, and it also shows how you can use the same force of nature I call "Creative Tension" to manifest the results you want in your life.

Go back to the rubber band, please.

Imagine that your left hand represents your Current Reality, right now, this moment-everything you have and do, and who you "be" in your life today, which includes all your thoughts and feelings about that, as well. (Life is a pretty broad category and may be too vast to grasp, so you might want to narrow this down to be about one single specific aspect of your life; your business or a given relationship for example.)

Now, imagine that in your right hand is your Vision, your desires and dreams of what you really want your life to be like if you could have it be any way at all... if you knew you could not fail.

Have you got that: Left hand - Current Reality. Right hand - Vision?

Good. Now, if there is any difference or contrast between your Current Reality and Your Vision, the rubber band will be pulled and stretched apart. If your Vision and your Current Reality were exactly the same, the rubber band would just sit there, relaxed and hanging limp. No tension seeking resolution. And no Creative power, either!

Once the rubber band is stretched, it's naturally compelled to return to its relaxed "natural" state.

So, when your Current Reality and your Vision are different, there is a creative energy present acting just like that stretched rubber band-it wants to resolve that powerful tension and relax.

To get the most out this you really need to check out BELIEF BUSTERS!

Do you experience any difficulty visualizing things? Did you stumble a bit with the Exercise at the end of the last Lesson on Creative Tension?

Don't be afraid if you honestly answer, "Yes." Many people do (many more than you would think). I do, and I not only have a BFA degree, but I worked professionally for years in photography!

I know that some experts/teachers say it's fine if you cannot visualize things. "Everybody is different," they say. They point out that some of us are word oriented. Others are more sensitive to touch, or feelings, or sound. That's true, and Vision is VISUAL. Your Imagination is based on making IMAGES, pictures in your mind.

The ability to be an imagineer and visualize is a skill anyone can learn and become very good at. You simply need to know HOW to use your imagination to picture things and then PRACTICE what you've learned.< /big>

You can literally (and figuratively) learn to visualize vividly, easily and instantly in only a few days.

Why is Vision important...?
Because Your Imagination is one of... if not THE MOST powerful Creative Force in Your Life. You and I ARE precisely who and how we are willing and able to imagine ourselves to be.

Do you have a Vision of yourself as a person who can hit a golf ball 327 yards straight down the middle of the fairway? Tiger Woods does.

Do you have a Vision that you can make a $56.9 billion fortune in the stock market? Warren Buffet does.

Do you have a Vision of yourself making a profound and positive difference in the lives of millions and millions of women (and men) around the world? Marianne Williamson does.

Want to know what your Vision is?
Look at your life....

Want more and better in your life?
Change your Vision....

(Did you notice how you could swap out the word Vision in the quote above and insert Belief and it has the same meaning?)

If you have struggled or experienced difficulty in creating a Vision in the past, here's a simple exercise you can do a couple of times each day to build Your Vision Muscles. And just like working out in the gym for the first time or after a long lay-off, start slowly with something you can easily do. (Allow yourself to take baby steps with this. In a remarkably short time you will be a Mr. or Ms. Olympia with bulging Vision Muscles all over:-)

Just head on over to the BeliefBusters Course and get the tools to create a VISION that you actually move toward with empowering beliefs!