Instant Manifestation

The Law of Attraction is About Changing Beliefs

To master the law of attraction, you have to change your beliefs. You need to make the shift from focusing on lack to fixating on abundance.

This isn’t always easy to do, because it takes effort and time. But it can be done, and by even working with the law of attraction for just a few weeks, you can start noticing some big differences in your life.

I really like this article that an anonymous writer sent to me some years ago. I’ve been a spirituality columnist for many magazines, and someone sent me this great article about changing beliefs. I don’t believe it’s ever been published anywhere before. I think the writer cuts right to the point and provides great tips on changing your beliefs and mastering the law of attraction.

Changing Beliefs

Our beliefs create our reality. This includes our finances, personal health, relationships and opportunities. Knowing this, the question is whether there is a practical, systematic way to change our beliefs and therefore our lives. Experience gained through trial and error indicates that it is possible to change old beliefs by repeated repetition of new beliefs.

You have probably had unconscious experience with this technique. A positive example is when sports coaches use pep talks to encourage a winning attitude. Pep talks basically consist of speeches where the coach tells the players repeatedly that they are winners. A negative example is when a person repeatedly tells us we are no good. If we say or hear it often enough, we begin to believe it is true.

If you desire, you can use this same technique to consciously change negative beliefs to positive beliefs, thereby changing your life.

Finding new beliefs:

1) Beliefs that you change should be those which are most fundamental. While desiring a new car, job, or relationship may be the driving force behind wanting to change your current beliefs, it is likely that fundamental beliefs regarding love, value, self-worth, and fear are ultimately the ones which make things in your life the way they are today.

2) The wording of the new belief should be a positively-stated sentence of about three to six words. Long sentences, while possible, become cumbersome, difficult to repeat, and they increase the possibility of ambiguity (double meaning) in the subconscious. Negatively-stated sentences using the word “not” should be used only if it is impossible to state the desired new belief in a positive way.

3) Sample beliefs:

“I am a good person.”
“God loves me.”
“I have value.”
“I love myself.”
“I am worthy.”
“It’s okay to quit fear.”
“I’m safe when I quit fear.”
“I quit fear.”

4) Feel free to experiment with the wording of the belief. Trial and error is sometimes the only way to find the best wording to express the essence of a new belief.

Creating new beliefs:

1) It is really very simple, just repeat the new belief over and over to yourself throughout the day. This can be done silently in your mind, out loud to yourself, or out loud in front of a mirror. Don’t be passionate or highly emotional when verbalizing the new belief. (Editor’s note: I disagree with this. In my book, Why Most Affirmations Fail and the Four Building Blocks of Successful Affirmations, I discuss how charging your affirmation with positive emotion is absolutely crucial to your success.) A flat, unemotional, monotonous approach seems to be the most effective. Number of repetitions, not intensity, is the key. (Editor: Again, I disagree. Repeating new beliefs briefly yet intensely can be much more powerful – or as powerful – as repeating them hundreds of time in a flat, unemotional way.)

2) Repeat the new belief to yourself each day as often as you can. Whether it is one time or 100,000 times, in the morning or at night, or continuously throughout the day, it is best to find out what works for you. Here again, trial and error will be your best friend.

3) Belief creation can be done in a group setting and is very powerful when done this way. Sitting in a circle, tell the group the new belief you intend to create and have them repeat your new belief back to you. Each person can speak your belief back to you one at a time or they can say it as a group. Obviously, words like “I” and “me” will have to be changed to “you.”

4) Keep repeating the new belief until it feels like the truth. This can take anywhere from a single day to a month or longer. Once the new belief feels like a part of you, the next belief you need to change seems to appear. Occasionally, you may quit working on one belief prematurely because the need to work on another will be so strong you just can’t wait.

Common Difficulties with Changing Beliefs:

1) Old beliefs “defend” themselves. This defense shows up as feelings of apathy, tiredness, deep depression, uncontrollable anger, intense fear or the feeling that you are doing something wrong, bad, false, useless, pointless, hopeless, or sacrilegious. Sometimes you will hit a plateau where you feel you have made all of the progress you can, and the new belief still doesn’t feel like it is the truth.

2) When this happens, decrease the number of repetitions for a while. Don’t get into an emotional wrestling match with the old belief. Remember to be flat, unemotional, and monotonous when verbalizing the new belief.

3) Experience shows that these feelings will pass. Don’t give up. The real key to success in changing beliefs or creating new beliefs is perseverance in repeating the new belief until it feels like the truth.

4) There is a simple method to get an idea of what a belief feels like when it is true for you. Intentionally speak a true statement and then a false one, and see how each feels. For example, one evening tell yourself that it is getting dark, then tell yourself it is getting light. The difference in how each statement feels when you say it can be your guide to knowing when a belief is true for you.

Sometimes we need to do a little “homework” on ourselves to release negative self-perceptions and deep-seated negative emotions. One easy and popular program that helps you release negative emotions is an audio series known as The Release Technique or The Abundance Course taught by Larry Crane.

Larry was a student of Lester Levenson, a physicist and success consciousness pioneer who stumbled upon a simple way to release negative emotions for good. This user-friendly technique allows you to open up to receive a limitless supply of abundance. I’ve worked with Larry’s techniques and have found them to be a great boost to my own affirmations work.