Beliefs and Results: 10 Things You Should Know

If you’re struggling in life in any area–health, wealth, relationships or success of any kind, there are 10 important things you should know about how YOU are creating your situation.

And therefore, you have the power to change your results, as simply as changing your mind.

Follow these "10 Principles of Beliefs and Results", and your life will start to change in ways you never thought possible.

1: We Don't Consciously Choose our Beliefs

Based on early life interactions and experiences, especially with our primary caregivers, we all develop beliefs about who we are and what our relationship is to the rest of the world.

Beliefs become core components of how we see other people, the world, and ourselves.

2: Your Mind Will Make Your Beliefs Come True

Beliefs, in combination with other aspects of your internal cognitive world, create or attract the results, circumstances and experiences of your life.

Whatever you believe, your mind will find a way to make it come true, or make it seem to be true (which really amounts to the same thing).

This drive to create consistency is so strong that people will do almost anything to be right about their beliefs, including creating failure, suffering, and unhappiness.

3: Emotional Experiences Create Beliefs

Let’s look at why we might have, and even defend, beliefs that lead to outcomes we don’t want.

Significant negative emotional experiences create beliefs that are not resourceful to us, and cause us to focus on what we don’t want.

These experiences cause us to say to ourselves, in effect, “There’s danger out there, and I have to avoid it.” Then, whenever something reminds – consciously or unconsciously – of a past traumatic experience, we attached the original negative emotions to it and re-experience the negative emotions we originally felt...

...even if there’s no actual danger in that present moment.

Since focusing on anything gives your mind an instruction to create or attract more of it, when you do this you ironically end up getting the very thing you’re trying to avoid.

4: Everything is True to the Person Who Believes It

This is perhaps THE key point you need to understand about beliefs. Since everything is true to the person who believes it - because you’ll create or attract or make up whatever evidence you need in order to be “right” about what you believe evaluating beliefs based on whether they’re supposedly “true” or “false” isn’t helpful.

Doing so is circular, fallacious logic. If you know in advance that you’ll figure out a way to make what you believe either come true or seem to be true, how could a belief ever be false?

If you believe it, you’ll figure out how to have “evidence” that it’s true.

From our individual point of view, only other people’s beliefs can be false. Your beliefs will always turn out to be true.

This is why conscious, happy people evaluate beliefs based on whether or not they’re resourceful, whether or not they create the desired results and experience of life.

5: Watching with Awareness Creates Choice

An effective way to replace beliefs that don’t serve you is to adopt the Witness posture - to watch, with awareness, the process of how what you believe creates what happens in your life.

This watching process almost magically causes any belief that isn’t resourceful to fall away and whatever is resourceful to remain.

This works because watching with awareness creates choice. It’s impossible to do something that doesn’t serve you, and do it with awareness.

Now, a lot of people misunderstand what I mean by “doing something with awareness.” They think that because they know they’re doing something, they’re already doing it with awareness.

But cognitively knowing something isn’t the same as doing it with awareness.

As you watch, keep in mind the inevitable outcome and curiously stand aside from a detached perspective, and watch the process unfold. This is extremely powerful.

6: You Can Choose What You Want to Believe

Once you’ve watched the creative process with awareness and have caused a self-sabotaging belief to fall away, you can then consciously choose a more resourceful belief, one that creates the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical results you want.

You can choose what you want to believe, and in doing so, choose your results. 

You don't have to believe what seems to be true based on past experience. Beliefs are nothing more than instructions to your mind to make something happen.

Think and act “as if” you’re loveable (or wealthy, or healthy, or masterful at something).

Begin by pretending, by acting like a person who believes that they are loveable/wealthy/healthy/masterful. You could even ask yourself, from time to time:

“What would a person who’s loveable/wealthy/healthy/masterful do in this situation?”

This “as if” thinking and acting will sneak up on you, and pretty soon you’ll find yourself thinking and acting like a loveable/wealthy/healthy/masterful, and once you do that - you’ll be a loveable/wealthy/healthy/masterful person.

7: Discover What you Currently Believe

A key step in replacing beliefs that don’t serve you is to discover what you currently believe. Here’s a simple way of discovering what you believe. Complete the following sentences:

• I am ________________________.
• People are ___________________.
• The world is __________________.

Just sit down list everything that comes to mind, whether it seems significant or insignificant. 

Then do the same with “People are _____________” and “The world is _____________”.

We're looking for what you believe about yourself that might be keeping you from being happy and peaceful all the time - statements such as:

• People always take advantage of me
• The world is dangerous and chaotic
• Lovers always leave me in the end
• I can't seem to do anything right
• I'm never going to be a success
• Making money isn’t spiritual
• People will never love me
• No one cares about me
• I’ll never get out of debt
• I’m defective

...and so on.

These are the beliefs you need to change, the ones that are about what you don’t want.

Once you’re aware of what you believe, you can take a look at what kinds of outcomes each belief leads to.

If you have less-than resourceful beliefs, you’ve been suffering their negative effects for years, probably without realising the connection between your beliefs and your results.

Now, by watching how your beliefs create your results, these beliefs can become a choice. And once that happens, the negative beliefs will fall away.

8: What You Believe Determines Your Results

If you believe you aren’t loveable, for instance, you’ll find a way to make that come true. Your belief will lead to a result.

If you believe it’s difficult to make money, you’ll figure out a way to make that come true.

If you believe that life is an emotional roller coaster, you’ll make that happen. If you believe that people will hurt you, you’ll find a way to attract hurtful people into your life. And so on.

If you’re getting a certain result, you probably believe that it can and will happen to you. Then you unconsciously find a way to make it come true.

9: The Same Beliefs Get the Same Results

As long as you continue to hold the same beliefs, you’ll continue to get the same results.

There’s no way to continue to hold the same beliefs and get different results. To get different results, you must be willing to adopt different beliefs… the beliefs of others who are getting the results you want.

Find mentors, read books, mix and mingle with the people who have what you want. You become like the people you surround yourself with.

10. Direct Your Attention Toward What You Want

If you’re having trouble in your life, you’re focusing on what you don’t want, instead of what you DO want.

In this tenth principle, I want to show you how to install a new and more resourceful belief, one that will allow you to create more of what you want.

1. Focus on the new belief as often as possible
2. Act as if it’s already true
3. Take action

You’re already an expert at creating what you believe and focus on. It’s just that up to now you haven’t consciously and intentionally chosen what to believe and what to focus on.

Your focusing has been happening automatically, and as long as you continue to do it that way you’ll continue to create the same results.

Your ability to imagine isn’t the problem. It just needs to be directed toward what you want.

Next, be willing to act “as if” the new belief is true.

Ask yourself, “How would someone with this belief think? How would someone with this belief act?” What would someone with this belief feel when they thought about it?

Think, act, and feel “as if” you’ve already adopted this new belief.

At first this will feel artificial, but if you keep doing it before long you will believe it, after which you’ll begin to see the results generated by that belief.

Create a short technicolor movie of yourself getting the results associated with the new belief and seeing yourself feeling happy and satisfied with those results. The more vivid and detailed the movie, the better.

Then take action. And no matter what happens, keep going.

Often success comes after many “educational failures.” Read books by people who share your new belief. Socialise with people who share it. Find a mentor who will help you adopt the new belief.

To get what you want in life, you have to do your focusing consciously and intentionally. Believe me, I know what I’m talking about, and if you do as I suggest…

...your life will change in ways you never thought possible.