Creative Director: Beliefs

I Create: Creative Director of my Life.

In order to create a life we love, we need to understand the beliefs that we hold and if they are helping or hurting us. Keep reading and I’ll tell you about the time my subconscious mind was doing the work for me.

Beliefs hold a lot of power. Being aware of the beliefs that we have about ourselves and our life is a key to creating the life that we want. If we are aware of our beliefs, this then gives us power. We have the power to decide, is this a belief that helps me? Do I want to keep that belief? Or is this a belief that is not serving me and how can I abandon that belief and replace it with something better?

I’ve done a lot of reflection and study on my own belief systems. Some of it has come about while learning about mental blocks. Revealing beliefs that are ‘blocking’ good things from entering my life. A limiting thought, for example, ‘I’m not good enough,’ can mean that you actually are not allowing yourself to be good enough. A thought like ‘I’m not good enough,’ can be changed to, ‘if I’m not good enough now…. What can I work on that will make me feel like I’ve earned it and I am good enough?’ Or also equally possible: ‘I am good enough already, so stop letting my thoughts believe otherwise.’

Belief systems like these, are what I have been working on. Finding those limiting thought patterns, and either overcoming them, or acknowledging how silly they are and then through this awareness, dismissing them as invalid and moving on altogether.

I’ve probably mentioned that I have a book. A journal. In this journal, I write down epiphanies, synchronicities, ideas… thoughts of all kinds that bring clarity to my thought evolution – you could say. And in this moment that I am writing this, it’s just been decided that I’ll call it my ‘book of clarity,’ for the sake of, well, clarity and simplicity.

I’ll tell you about a dream I wrote down, and particularly a thought preceding this dream. One day, I recognized what would be considered an ‘abnormal fear,’ of mine. The point isn’t actually what this fear is, that part is irrelevant to this writing, and would change the course of the blog, so at this time, I’ll leave it out. The point is, I recognized this belief. It’s an abnormal fear in that it’s fairly unreasonable. As in, it’s something I don’t logically think would happen, for the amount of ‘fear belief’ behind it. So I wrote down that I recognize that I have this ‘abnormal fear’ and started to write down what I thought could be done about it. What thoughts to replace it with.

The next day, I wrote in my book that I acknowledge that the main thing is to dig up the fear, pull it out by the roots, build up my belief system in myself and a reliance on my inner power.

These notes were over the course of two days. Three days later, I had this dream, and wrote down in my book:

I had a dream that I found a new person to cut my hair. She was farther away, but I went to her anyway and and she was quite therapeutic. She said she could tell damage had been done to my hair long ago and asked the history of my hair stylists. She ended up cutting my hair very short – which I didn’t want, but it was also ok, I wasn’t upset as it seemed to be needed. I took the long, cut-off hair with me. Then as I was looking at the long hair, the strands of hair were much thicker, like plant roots – and it was visible to the eye where the damage had happened.

I wrote this dream down when I woke up, along with the note that when I awoke, I realized that the hair actually looked more like nerves of the nervous system. My subconscious mind was at work. My inner power was at work. Showing me the visual of old beliefs being cut back, taking out the damage, going back to the roots or the time before the beliefs were instilled.

The symbolism of it all did encourage me. It showed me that we can choose what to cut out, what to get rid of. I can choose. And I have the power to not allow the beliefs that I don’t want. I decide.

Until next week,

Devon

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