Your Thoughts Create Your Beliefs

Have you ever wondered where your beliefs come from? They don’t just pop into your head out of thin air. The beliefs you have about anything in your life are created over a period of time through a consistent way of thinking. You could think of your mind as a big cave, filled with different caverns.


Your beliefs are truths that have been formed by a constant trickle of thoughts through your mind, depositing their positive, negative and indifferent impressions as they run through, like stalactites and stalagmites in your head. Over here, your beliefs about love, sex, marriage, children and family. In the corner are politics, religion and the unbelievable hairpiece your boss wears. Scattered throughout your mind are thousands of these imaginary formations—giant, tiny, positive, negative and everything in between, each being built from slow, steady drips of your constant thoughts.

Some beliefs have grown quite large over time and are practically indestructible, as if they were, well, set in stone. Some are thin around the base and can be broken easily. This mind-cave is a crude metaphor, but it illustrates how a constant trend in your thoughts can grow into beliefs that can’t be eroded. Sometimes that’s a good thing.


If your beliefs were shaped by positive streams of thought, you’d be left with positive beliefs , monuments to your ability to overcome, achieve and succeed. Sometimes the beliefs you build can be crippling, though. Negative thoughts create beliefs rooted in negativity, like teeth in a dooming bear trap of your own design. In other words, beliefs are thoughts that you keep thinking over and over.


Right now, you may be thinking that many of your beliefs were influenced or even forced upon you when you were young—by your parents, teachers, religious leaders, whoever—and that you didn’t really have a choice in the matter.


The fact is that even if your beliefs were forced upon you by other people, they were still registered into your mind by way of your thought process. They cannot get there any other way. It really makes no difference who or what the original source is.


The point is, if your brain is being bombarded by a barrage of toxic thoughts on a consistent basis, you can be sure that an unhealthy belief system is being created. Your beliefs write the story of your life.
I have you thinking now… don’t I?

Things Happy People Do Every Single Day of Their Lives

Many people spend their lives waiting to be happy. You may think, “if only I had more money,” or “could lose weight,” or you fill in the blank, then I would be happy.
Well here’s a secret: you can be happy right now. It’s not always easy, but you can choose to be happy, and in the vast majority of circumstances there’s no one who can stop you except for yourself.
The truth is, happiness doesn’t come from wealth, perfect looks or even a perfect relationship. Happiness comes from within . This is why, if you truly want to be happy, you need to work on yourself, first.

Positive Habits of Happy People

What’s the secret to being happy? You can learn how to do it, just as you can learn any other skill. Those who are happy tend to follow a certain set of habits that create peace in their lives; if you learn to apply these habits in your own life, there’s a good chance you’ll be happy too.

                                   

 1. Let Go of Grudges

Forgiving and forgetting is necessary for your own happiness, as holding a grudge means you’re also holding onto resentment, anger, hurt and other negative

emotions that are standing in the way of your own happiness. Letting go of a grudge frees you from negativity and allows more space for positive emotions to fill in.

2. Treat Everyone with Kindness

Kindness is not only contagious, it’s also proven to make you happier. When you’re kind to others, your brain produces feel-good hormones and neurotransmitters like serotonin and you’re able to build strong relationships with others, fostering

positive feelings all around.

3. Regard Your Problems as Challenges

Change your internal dialogue so that anytime you have a “problem” you view it as a challenge or a new opportunity to change your life for the better. Eliminate the word “problem” from your mind entirely.

4. Express Gratitude For What You Have

People who are thankful for what they have are better able to cope with stress, have more positive emotions, and are better able to reach their goals. The best way to harness the positive power of gratitude is to keep a gratitude journal or list, where you actively write down exactly what you’re grateful for each day. Doing so has been linked to happier moods, greater optimism and even better physical health .

5. Dream Big

Go ahead and dream big, as you’ll be more likely to accomplish your goals. Rather than limiting yourself, when you dream big you’re opening your mind to a more optimistic, positive state where you have the power to achieve virtually anything you desire.

6. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

If the issue you’re mad about will be irrelevant a year, a month, a week or even a day from now, why sweat it? Happy people know how to let life’s daily irritations roll off their back.

7. Speak Well of Others

It may be tempting to gather around the office water cooler to get and give the daily gossip, but talking negatively about others is like taking a bath in negative emotions; your body soaks them up. Instead, make it a point to only say positive, nice words about other people, and you’ll help foster more positive thinking in your own life as well.

8. Avoid Making Excuses

It’s easy to blame others for your life’s failures, but doing so means you’re unlikely to rise past them. Happy people take responsibility for their mistakes and missteps , then use the failure as an opportunity to change for the better.

9. Live In The Present

Allow yourself to be immersed in whatever it is you’re doing right now and take time to really be in the present moment. Avoid replaying past negative events in your head or worrying about the future; just savor what’s going on in your life now .

10. Wake Up at The Same Time Every Morning

Getting up at the same time every day (preferably an early time) is deceptively simple. Doing so will help regulate your circadian rhythm so you’ll have an easier time waking and likely feel more energized . Plus, the habit of rising early every day is one shared by many successful people, as it enhances your productivity and focus.

11. Don’t Compare Yourself to Others

Your life is unique, so don’t measure your own worth by comparing yourself to those around you. Even regarding yourself as better than your peers is detrimental to your happiness, as you’re fostering judgmental feelings and an unhealthy sense of superiority. Measure your own success based on your progress alone, not that of others.

12. Surround Yourself with Positive People

The saying “misery loves company” is entirely true. That’s why you need to choose friends who are optimistic and happy themselves, as you will be surrounded with positive energy.

13. Realize That You Don’t Need Others’ Approval

It’s important to follow your own dreams and desires without letting naysayers stand in your way. It’s fine to seek others’ opinions, but happy people stay true to their own hearts and don’t get bogged down with the need for outside approval.

14. Take Time to Listen

Listening helps you soak in the wisdom of others and allows you to quiet your own mind at the same time. Intense listening can help you feel content while helping you gain different perspectives.

15. Nurture Social Relationships

Positive social relationships are a key to happiness, so be sure you make time to visit with friends, family and your significant other.

16. Meditate

Meditation helps you keep your mind focused, calms your nerves and supports inner peace. Research shows it can even lead to physical changes in your brain that make you happier.

17. Eat Well

What you eat directly impacts your mood and energy levels in both the short and long term. Whereas eating right can prime your body and brain to be in a focused, happy state, eating processed junk foods will leave you sluggish and prone to chronic disease. My free nutrition plan is an excellent tool to help you choose the best foods for both physical and emotional wellness.

18. Exercise

Exercise boosts levels of health-promoting brain chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, which may help buffer some of the effects of stress and also relieve some symptoms of

depression . Rather than viewing exercise as a medical tool to lose weight, prevent disease, and live longer – all benefits that occur in the future – try viewing exercise as a daily tool to immediately enhance your frame of mind, reduce stress and feel happier.

19. Live Minimally

Clutter has a way of sucking the energy right out of you and replacing it with feelings of chaos. Clutter is an often-unrecognized source of stress that prompts feelings of anxiety , frustration, distraction and even guilt, so give your home and office a clutter makeover, purging it of the excess papers, files, knick knacks and other “stuff” that not only takes up space in your physical environment but also in your mind.

20. Be Honest

Every time you lie, your stress levels are likely to increase and your self-esteem will crumble just a little bit more. Plus, if others find out you’re a liar it will damage your personal and professional relationships. Telling the truth, on the other hand, boosts your mental health and allows others to build trust in you.

21. Establish Personal Control

Avoid letting other people dictate the way you live. Instead, establish personal control in your life that allows you to fulfill your own goals and dreams, as well as a great sense of personal self-worth.

22. Accept What Cannot Be Changed

Everything in your life is not going to be perfect, and that’s perfectly all right. Happy people learn to accept injustices and setbacks in their life that they cannot change, and instead, put their energy on changing what they can control for the better.

Everything we judge in others is something within ourselves we don't want to face

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It's easy to point out the fault in others, or to blame others for there behaviour, but can you observe the faults in your own way of thinking? In your own behaviour? We often judge others because of our own insecurities. This is an unconscious act of course, or else it is unlikely that we would continue to do it. We see someone with a weird haircut or strange clothes in our mind we judge them for that. Why? Because we are insecure about our own appearance, and pointing out the flaws in others takes the attention away from our own shortcomings. We are only making them seem like less so that we can feel like more, we can feel like validated and superior.

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Generally, our judgement of others  is an extension of self judgement; and the self judgement is so ingrained, so normal. We don't even recognize it. We allow our self judgement to dominate our experience, and hold us back from living life freely in each moment. We are worried about what others will think of us, but this is really just us judging ourselves. This inner judgement reflects itself as outer judgement, causing us to judge, criticize, and compare ourselves to those around us. Try to notice in yourself when this judgement takes place. When you catch yourself  having a defining thought about someone, step back and ask, "what do I really know about this person?" Often, the answer is version of " not very much." This behaviour acts as a pattern interrupt, and forces you to stop and consider where the judgement is coming from.

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Perhaps you can also reflect on that judgement and think: " do I myself exhibit this same behaviour or attitude that I judge in this person?" Almost always answer is yes ( not that one always comes to that yes easily). Often the stuff that irritates us the most about others trend to be attributes we don't necessarily realize we ourselves have.

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Practice being aware of the patterns that exist in your mind, especially pattern of judgement towards yourself or others. Once you become aware of these patterns you can separate yourself from them, and you can then replace them with new patterns. It all begins with awareness.
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"Love is absence of judgement."