Your Belief Detective is Stopping You - How to Bypass It

So many of us harbor beliefs about ourselves that are not only wrong, but downright destructive. Would you like to find out how to bypass the Belief Detective inside of you that is holding you back from believing good things about yourself?

You may not realize this, but your beliefs are assumptions, explanations, and conclusions you’ve adopted throughout your life starting in infancy. They become the rules that shape your perception of the world. They become so ingrained, due in part to your experiences that seem to prove their accuracy. So you think they are truth, when in fact they are not.

Many times two children can grow up in the same household, in the same environment and end up with vastly different beliefs. How can that happen? It happens because the individual’s beliefs are based on how they interpret an environment, not on the actual environment itself. One child may grow up feeling neglected because their parents worked a lot. They may end up being needy and always seeking love because they felt rejected. The other child may become fiercely independent because they believe that they learned to stand on their own two feet. Same environment, different interpretation, different beliefs.

The beliefs we hold are the very foundation upon which we view our world. If our beliefs limit us in some way, then it is hard to move forward and break down barriers. Any time we learn something new, or do something that challenges a deeply rooted belief we experience great resistance. I know in my own life, I sometimes feel like there is a tug of war going on. It’s like I have this Big Bad Belief Detective standing guard so that when a strongly held belief is challenged, the Belief Detective puts up a fight.

Have you noticed any time in your life when your negative beliefs have kept you stuck, even though you don’t seem to know why? You say to yourself, “I get all the bad luck” and guess what, you do. But we all have positive beliefs as well or we would never get out of bed. Most of our beliefs are hidden deep in our sub-conscious mind, and we don’t even know that they are running the show until we try to change them, which then becomes quite a challenge.

Sometimes old beliefs that no longer serve any purpose dissolve on their own and are replaced with more productive beliefs. (YEAH!) Our work, then, is to uncover and remove the negative beliefs that no longer serve us and are holding us back from achieving all that we desire.

So how do you go about changing these beliefs? Well, first you have to realize that your beliefs, no matter what they are serve some purpose for you. Maybe they keep you safe, maybe they prove you right. Your subconscious wants to help you keep the status quo, so every time you try to change a belief, the Belief Detective stops you. In my case, I started using affirmations, which are positive statements which help to reprogram limiting beliefs. But they were statements aimed at my beliefs so my Belief Detective sabotaged my efforts by making me bored, tired or just too busy to do them. It’s very tricky. I had to find a way to bypass my Belief Detective.

I just had to find a way, so I tried meditation, visualization, hypnosis and a lot of other stuff with some limited success, but the excuses would always creep back in and I’d stop doing them. What finally worked for me was to set my affirmations into short, catchy little tunes. Have you ever heard a jingle on TV or the radio that played in your head all day long? Well, I used that phenomenon and created short little jingles with affirmation statements in them. They would run all day long in the back of my mind over and over. I called them AttitudeZapz!

Has there ever been a time when you’ve argued with yourself about song lyrics? Not very likely. Also scientific studies have proven that by keeping the critical part of the the mind, the conscious mind, occupied by music, the uncritical subconscious will be able to accept the affirmations without filtering them. There’s no little voice inside your head telling you it’s not true. And once these little affirmation jingles get stuck in your head, you can sing them on autopilot and you don’t even have to wonder if you believe the words or not. They just melt right into your subconscious mind with no effort at all.

So finally I’d found a way to bypass the Belief Detective. Because of that one little thing, I’ve grown by leaps and bound and you can too. You can do the same thing with your own affirmations if you want to, or if you don’t feel that creative, try AttitudeZapz!, and your Belief Detective will soon be out of a job!

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