While I know this is somewhat painful, I invite you anyway to take a few moments to look at the world and the unhappiness and misery that overwhelm it, that overwhelm us all.
What do you know notice? Where do all this unhappiness and misery come from? Do you know the number one cause?
Many of us blame loneliness, or oppression, or war, or hatred, or violence, and so on. We are mistaken. There is only one cause to unhappiness and misery: The irrational thoughts and false beliefs that inhabit our minds – self-defeating thoughts and beliefs that are so widespread and common that it never crosses our minds to even question or challenge them. It is because of these irrational thoughts and false beliefs that we have a distorted vision of the world, that we hold a prejudiced image of ourselves.
Our conditioning is so strong and the pressure society puts on us so intense that we are somehow trapped in our own perception of the world. And as long as we will ignore that our perception is distorted, that our thoughts are irrational, and that our beliefs are false – at least, some of them! – it will remain impossible for us to escape this overwhelming unhappiness and misery.
What complicates matters further is that we have somehow been programmed not to suspect, not to doubt, but to blindly focus and trust the lessons taught by our traditions, our culture, our society, our religion, and so on. And when we feel unhappy and miserable, more often than not we feel guilty and unworthy as well because we have also learned to blame and devalue ourselves – and not the conditioning, the cultural background, the irrational ideas and false beliefs that inhabit our minds.
Good news is the irrational thoughts and false beliefs we have learned and believed for so many years, we most definitely have the capacity to challenge and replace them with self-helping thoughts and beliefs that will create true and sustainable happiness in our lives.
Difficult – and sometimes very, very difficult – you bet! Impossible, absolutely not! As Louise L. Hay so beautifully says, “A thought is is just a thought and a thought can be changed.”
“What are these irrational thoughts and false beliefs that keep us from being truly happy?” do you ask. Not only are there many of them, but I promise to explore the most popular ones with you as part of my next posts. Until then, let me leave you with this valuable advice from Dr. Wayne W. Dyer: “Don’t believe everything you think.”
© Chantal Beaupre 2011
Written by Chantal Beaupre
Chantal Beaupre is an Emotional Mastery Coach, a Naturopath, an Independent Licensed LifeSuccess Consultant, and a business partner of Bob Proctor – as seen in “The Secret” movie.
Her passion is to assist, educate, and inspire consciously focused business owners and individuals to achieve extraordinary success and happiness, at home and in the work place. Recognized as the go-to self-development expert, Chantal has a treasure trove of practical, highly effective tools to help you live your life to the fullest. Website: www.chantalbeaupre.com.
2 comments
I do support and encourage Chantal’s message because everything I have learned through personal experience in my own work demonstrates the truth of false beliefs and circular negative thinking as the culprit behind misery.
The technique that I use in Heart Forgiveness has worked for thousands of people and it clears the deep seated glitches around false beliefs and torturous negative thoughts that go round and round repeating constantly in peoples heads to the point where they do not know where the negative thoughts end and they begin.
The hardest thing for people to GET is that they do not have to DO anything to earn Gods Love. We are INSEPARABLE FROM SOURCE. When we say I AM. We are always affirming the connection that is inseparable. We are ONE with GOD and with each other. Period. I AM PRESENCE is each of us individualized as expressions of SOURCE.
Ponder these words in meditation or simply sit with them, walk with them, rest with them: BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.
Just as the heart is uniquely itself within the body so are we each uniquely ourselves within the LIGHT OF GOD/SOURCE/PRESENCE that fills the endless universes ever creating more and more of ITSELF to experience the INFINITE ALL THAT IS.
Rather to affirm such statements as I AM weak I AM tired I AM sorry I AM failure and all the many untrue statements made each day by GOD INDIVUALIZED AS YOU AND ME, PLEASE, simply say I AM. I AM LOVED. I AM WORTHY. I AM ONE WITH SOURCE ALWAYS AND FOREVER.
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.
IT IS A RADICAL IDEA WHO TIME HAS COME AND GONE AND COME AGAIN.
BLESSINGS OF ONENESS
Alexandra Barrett
Dear Alexandra,
Thank you so much for stopping by and commenting on my article. Not only do I sincerely appreciate it, but I am glad you enjoyed the content I have shared here.
My methods and techniques to help myself and others are generally less spiritually oriented than yours… but I know by experience that they can work very beautifully as well.
By far my top favorite one: BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD. It always works wonders for me!
In happiness and joy,
Chantal