Mindfulness Demystified: How Changing Your Beliefs Can Change Your Life?
Shifting Habits to Keep New Year's Resolutions?
Every year, countless New Year resolutions are made to remain committed until they come to fruition. From weight loss, physical fitness, new love, and financial freedom to every other possible worthwhile desire that can enhance one’s quality of life. Very few resolutions ever see the light of day, as approximately 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail.
Naturally, it makes sense, as many of us want to use the new year to “reinvent ourselves” (i.e., New Year, New You), only if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find it’s a little more nuanced (as evidenced by the statistically low success rate of New Year’s resolutions). Hence, changing your habits can present a challenge if we don’t get to the core of the underlying beliefs which drive our habits (aka blocking our blessing).
This post will explore the practice of mindfully changing your beliefs to achieve your resolutions).
The Power to Change
Practically everyone is more than willing and able to make a worthwhile change. Only no one wants to reconfigure their lives to change. Herein lies the problem. In today’s technologically advanced, fast-paced environment, we’ve been conditioned to get what we want when we want it. So naturally, one would apply this same approach to change. Only history (personally and statistically) has shown that individuals who set resolutions are likelier to fall short than to actualize their intentions within the first few weeks of the New Year.
How Your Beliefs Can Impede Change?
The burden of expectation places its responsibility on everyone and everything else outside ourselves, making our expectations contingent on the actions, inactions, or lack thereof, we relinquish our inner power. From placing timeframes around how long it should approximately take for our resolutions to materialize to heavily relying on the strength of our intention without consciously making any consistent, concerted effort to shift the focus of our beliefs affects our ability to actualize any sustainable change. Contrary to popular belief, all power is sourced from within, not from anyone or anything outside ourselves. In doing so, we must raise our frequency to harmonize with the vibration of our desires so that we can magnetically attract our desires into our reality.
Likewise, we can’t just set an intention and forget it. In other words, we can not just envision our resolution as some far-off goal that we will invariably obtain someday in the distant future; we must feel the vibration that it is already a part of our current reality. In other words, we must access the law of attraction to energetically feel into the belief that it is already here now, as the law can only magnetically attract our desires when our predominant thoughts, and habits, align with the feeling (aka vibration) that we are living in the desired end goal. In other words, we must first wholeheartedly believe (aka harmonize with the frequency that it is already a fact)) that whatever we seek to achieve is already our current reality. Understandably this goes against practically everything we were taught. Take the age-old saying “seeing is believing,” which affirms the collective belief that one must rely solely on our physical senses' evidence as tangible proof before we can fully believe in its existence. This belief goes against the law of attraction as it impedes our inner power to affect change. Hence, the overall reason why resolutions largely fail to work.
Like most things, accessing the law of attraction outwardly seems simple enough. However, this is, in no way, shape, or form, an easy feat. This is where our beliefs threaten to impede our ability to affect change. Let’s say that you set a resolution to become more financially free; you may go through the motions, following every step down to the tee, effectively crossing every T, and dotting every I. Next thing you know, the logical mind, begins to replay and repetitively reaffirm the objective facts of your bank account balance which invariably begins to replay in a repetitive loop that you are any and everything but financially free. This raises a very intriguing question, how does one go beyond impending beliefs? So glad you asked.
Going Beyond Impeding Beliefs
We are energetic beings with the innate power to co-create with the universe through the creative energy of thought. Everything is energy, and whether we are conscious of it or not, every thought we entertain generates an energetic vibration that magnetically attracts all required to materialize our thoughts into tangible form. Only through our recognition and acceptance of our inner power can we truly free ourselves from the old patterns and habits that no longer serve. Thoughts are units of energy that emit a frequency (aka law of attraction) that magnetically attracts the people, circumstances, and events that vibrate at the same predominant frequency for one to manifest our desires into physical form. Hence, the law provides a medium to transform the invisible energy of desires (aka the invest into visible) to materialize into tangible form.
The frequencies we largely emit, more often than not, misalign with our intention. In other words, we can wholeheartedly desire to usher in financial wealth and abundance and, in actuality, emit a frequency that aligns more with the vibration of lack and limitation than abundance. Likewise, universal intelligence only operates on an energetic level. Regardless of how strongly we desire to effect a dramatic change within our lives, we will continue to get more of the same unless we change our predominant daily frequency. In other words, we must invariably shift our attention away from the substance of the things we fear will happen and onto our desired outcome. Beyond our intentions, our attention, thoughts, and energy must predominately remain steadfast on our intention, without concerning ourselves with the mechanics of how it will materialize.
Shifting Habits to Keep New Year’s Resolutions
Our thoughts, habits, and beliefs govern how we interact and have our being. All habit patterns are formed by how we repeatedly do a thing until it becomes easier, requiring less and less effort until it practically becomes automatic. Likewise, the same process applies to breaking a habit, as it requires us to consciously invest the intentional effort to avoid doing a thing repeatedly until it requires less effort and invariably becomes easier and easier until you are entirely free.
Journey back to when you intended to break free of a romantic relationship that no longer served. Perhaps you logically knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you needed to sever and dissolve all ties with a specific individual completely. However, your logical mind was inextricably clear that you needed to break up with this individual; despite it all, your heart was still in love. No matter how much you tried to convince yourself to leave, an unquenchable urge kept you locked in the same paradigm despite yourself.
Since old habits die hard, as your head and heart vibrated two opposing frequencies, breaking up was no easy feat. Please take a few moments to reflect, and recognize how you likely unconsciously applied these same steps, remaining steadfast to your convictions by withholding all contact, despite any unrelenting urge to risk it all and revert to old habits. In time, avoiding this individual likely became easier and easier until, one day, you were completely free.
So as we venture into the new year, I want you to know that you have successfully shifted your habits and beliefs to actualize your intentions in the past. Was it easy? Most certainly not. Do you have the inner strength and power to actualize your intentions? Absolutely. Despite any missteps you may have previously encountered, you have the inner ability and fortitude to do the same when it comes to resolutions. Forgive yourself of prior missteps, and consciously invest consistent time and effort to go beyond any self-imposed limitations and affect the change you desire so that you may continue to grow, evolve, and unfold into your greatest yet-to-be.
I’d love to hear from you. What are your resolutions to do in 2023? Let’s keep the conversation going.
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