STSDM 9 - Put Your Beliefs into Practice

Day 9 Message:  What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” 

Haruki Murakami

When you activate a positive belief, your cells get the message. By intending to heal, you do heal.  We proceed with small steps by taking a few moments every day to be kind to yourself, forgive yourself, repeat your belief in healing, and enjoy your recovery.

O:  What is so miraculous about being human is that from the very first moment you say it, your intention shapes your reality.  Once you intend to heal, healing has already begun and when you add the power of belief, attitude, practice, your healing process accelerates exponentially.  Align your beliefs and your actions with your intention and you will shed the heaviness that’s holding you back, spiritually, emotionally and physically, with ease and grace.   When you activate a positive belief, your whole being responds.  Your very cells open up and nourish positive transformation, even the smallest steps move you forward.  Being kind to yourself, forgiving yourself and others, knowing that you are loved simply because you are here.  Your essence is love.  Embody that love.  Be that love without struggle or effort and you can manifest powerful healing that will propel you forward.

D:  As things stand, more people today believe in self-care and healing than ever before.  Their belief system has shifted in a life-supporting direction but this isn’t enough to achieve healing.  We must put our positive beliefs into action.  When you activate any belief, positive or negative, your cells get the message immediately.  The good news is that the healing system that supports your body has immense intelligence of its own.  What this means is that healing is already holistic, reaching every where, knowing as much about you as you do.  Once you really take this in, you will sense the enormous, mostly hidden power, of the mind-body connection.  Our neglect and damaging habits,  our bad choices and toxic emotions are anti-healing.  We act as if the body is a complicated object we have no control over and often no sympathy with.  What is needed is a shift in beliefs that begins with a basic but profound truth. Once you intend to heal, healing has begun.

To align with your own healing process, the following guidelines are workable and practical every day:

• Be easy with yourself.  Blame and judgement never reach the goal because negative motivation is incompatible with positive results.
• Be self-reliant which begins by claiming your own life.  Too many people give their power away by allowing others to control them, shape their opinions and reinforce low self-esteem and refusing to be appreciative themselves.  These things stop happening when you realize that no one possesses your life but you.  
• Embody what you admire. Instead of seeking so desperately for the one who will love you perfectly, be the one, be that love.  Your essence is the love you are looking for.   When you embody what you see, you begin to find it everywhere you look.  Here is a simple exercise to try every morning when you are getting ready for your day.  Imagine that you’ve made a new friend who is lovable, forgiving and light-hearted.  Feel the love and support of your new friend.  Now become that friend.  Act toward yourself the way that friend would do and avoid doing what such a friend wouldn’t do.  In this way, you activate  more than one positive belief at a time.  You envision a complete shift and proceed to let that vision unfold every day.

Journal Ideas:  1)  Write down three positive beliefs you hold about yourself, then list one way you can act upon it. For example, if you have a good self-image, take a step to improve someone else’s self-image.  2) Identify three negative beliefs about yourself, then list one thing you can do for each belief that would help to diminish and heal it. This should be a step you can realistically and easily take. For example, if you hold the belief that you are unlovable, consider a way to act friendlier and show others your positive feelings toward them, which is how lovable people behave.  3)  Write down three ways you can be easier on yourself instead of self-judgmental.