Beliefs & Reality The magical world of believe and make

by Kelly Bryant                                 

When you truely believe in something, it becomes real! This is the real magic- the innate secret we know as a child that keeps us wishing on a star. It is the fairy dust that settles and reveals that all our dreams are already coming true. It's what turned Pinocchio into a real boy and allowed Peter Pan to fly. Belief is all that separates us from making our own lives take flight.

As a kid we were brilliant at connecting to the world of make-believe. As adults we seem to have it all backwards! We have lost the wonder and lost the joy that flows through us when we are consciously creating the lives that we wish to live. Our magical adventure dies when our imagination is replaced by "common sense". This is the term used when we start forsaking our inner wisdom for what others tell us must be true. We give up our uniqueness and our chance to be extra-ordinary to become common because we think it's safer than being alone, but in the process we give up the greatest gift that life has to give; the power to create our own heaven here on Earth.

Can we use these grown-up minds to turn it back-the-front? Make-believe, Believe-make... what we believe, we make! Is it really that simple? And how do we go about changing the limiting beliefs that many of us have? If they are our beliefs, then surely we really believe them! Don't we?

Firstly, let's examine the question: 'Is it really that simple? ' Is belief all it takes? Surely if all we had to do was believe, we'd all be living the lives of our dreams! Right? Well, no... The problem is that most people hold beliefs that don't serve them and actually move them further from living a life of joy and happiness. We are constantly telling ourselves stories about how we aren't good enough, pretty enough, smart enough, loveable enough...the list goes on!,  and measuring ourselves up against other people's perceptions of us (perceived by us!), that we drive out any chance of finding real peace and happiness. Not only this, but we may never have been given the skills whilst growing up to think for ourselves and form our own opinions about life, who we are, and what we really believe in.

Have we ever taken the time to really question the thoughts we have that don't serve us? Can we really know these beliefs to be true? Who says they are true? And how would we feel if we replaced them with something else? What would you like to believe if you weren't so afraid? Is it better to live in fear than give yourself a chance at real happiness?

This is where trust comes in; trust in the Universe and trust in ourselves to be able to deal with whatever happens. How would it feel if we could rely on ourselves to be okay either way? And how would we feel if we trusted that the Universe was providing us with the very experiences we needed and the opportunity to choose in each moment how we wished to interpret these experiences and adopt them into the reality that we were creating for ourselves? How would this feel if we could have faith that it was all going to be okay, or more than okay? What if we decided that life was going to be wonderful? Magical? What if we allowed that child within to believe in happily ever after once more? Would we not live each day like the child, full of joy and wonder? Would our lives not become everything we ever dreamed they could be?

When we learn to change our thinking, every event in life becomes and opportunity for you to choose who you want to be in that moment. Do we act with love or do we choose fear? When we act out of love, people respond with love and we attract more love into our lives. The same is true of fear. One of my favourite quotes is: "Once we make a decision, the Universe conspires to make it happen". This is so true! You will learn to see that as soon as you make a decision, the Universe says "It is so", and reflects your beliefs back to you in your reality. Once we start becoming aware of this process, noticing the signs of our creation, and begin to conciously choose our beliefs, we become the creators of our own destiny and our own heaven on Earth.

In the end it's a choice and I know what I'd rather choose! So let's all live in the land of believe-make and open the gate to our happily-ever-afters. We all have the power to be the creators of the life we've always dreamed of- if we only believed we could!