Identity Anchored in Beliefs

Life is a dream that the ego is having. The ego is a dream that the soul is having. The soul is a dream that the spirit is having. Spirit is a dream that God-Source-Creator is having. So, quite literally, everything in existence is really just God in drag. – Ram Dass

As you are coming out of obliviousness and wake up into the truth of who you actually are, you begin to understand creation, how creation works, and the principles upon how it works. You can make it as complex or complicated as you like, but the fundamental mechanism of creating your reality is simple. All sources of complication come from one thing only – a belief or a definition that is out of alignment with your true self. The only way you can hold on to a belief or a definition of life or creation that is out of alignment with your true self is if that definition or belief is held in the unconscious.

The good news is, as soon as you identify, define, and bring that belief into conscious realization, you will soon see the most important thing:

                        What is out of alignment will suddenly reveal itself as non-sensical or illogical.

Everything that exists has a consciousness. I did not say we all can interact with the consciousness of every single thing (although there are those who can and do). For now, just go with me on this as I share what came through:

Beliefs – which exist and therefore, have consciousness – must reinforce themselves to continue to exist. Beliefs are designed to perpetuate themselves, to reinforce the perception that “reality is real”. Good feeling, positive beliefs are comfortable and congruent with our true nature and, since they are preferred, are “easy” to reinforce. Negative beliefs must, in a sense, work stealthily, because they are not true, and therefore, not real. Negative energy is simply an illusion of separation. Note: not all negative energy is “bad”, but anything that elicits feelings of fear, anxiety, suppression, anger, shame, guilt, etc. is a belief structure created by humans and imposed on others.

Just as people who are happy, caring, and enjoyable emit energy with others who can feel it, there are those who perpetuate uncertainty, fear, guilt, shame, etc. for the purpose of service-to-self endeavors. In other words, there are people and business models that benefit from those who exist in lower states of consciousness. They are not ignorant of these laws of energy and how creation is designed; they choose to exist in ways that take advantage of others for their own benefit.

Family ancestors carried on with beliefs from one generation to the next and it was rare that a member deviated from their established beliefs. Many are so subtle and deeply engrained in the fabric of our personalities that we are mostly oblivious to their existence. Conversely, they may be easily perceptible as they are fueled by righteousness, indignance, or self-sabotaging behaviors. We say things like “well this runs in my family” essentially giving all of our power away to a belief structure without a second thought that it may not be true for ourselves.

Maintaining healthy beliefs require consistent reinforcement. This involves others who hold similar beliefs, and evidence that portrays the negative state of things constantly. The reinforcement and evidence (perception and projection) can be very pervasive, depending on the greater objective at hand.

In our personal lives, however, there may not be an intent to undermine and destroy one’s personal dreams, yet, some unconscious beliefs do just that. Those untruths are designed and maintained to prohibit the structure itself from being disassembled, which is an annihilation – the end of a creation. Consciousness wants to create. Not be annihilated.

One who is pensively attempting to change an unhealthy belief will also be acutely aware of any evidence around them that would SUPPORT the fear-based belief. And as soon as it observes this thing that says “my fear-based belief is real and true” they will recapitulate and revert to their familiar albeit unhealthy behaviors. The familiarity of what has always been is comforting in the shadow of the unknown. As we are creators and attract to us what we believe to be true about ourselves, the world around us will give us an experience that confirms the original negative belief must be real. If you are attempting to consciously eradicate a negative belief, it will become more pervasive in your mind and reality and you will notice that you become more and more scared to let it go.

When you are on the precipice of massive change, the body will conjure up physical symptoms and emotions. But you must hold steadfast and see through the fact that that is a trick of the negative belief structure saying “If you let me go, something worse will happen to you”. Thus, making you even more afraid to let it go. The paradox being the more scared you become, the closer you are to totally letting go of the negative belief.

How Do I Release the Beliefs of Which I Am Unaware?

Let’s say you are moving through typical events in an ordinary day and your partner or friend innocently asks a question that was not intended to provoke you, but you feel an eruption inside that boils up out of nowhere. In an instant, there is a reflexive reaction and words fly out of your mouth that are fueled with anger or hurt. Your friend/partner stands before you with eyes wide, palms turned up, and cannot imagine what they said to upset you like that. They respond (hopefully) in a kind manner but your emotional charge is too big to contain. You huff and storm around using phrases that begin with “you always…” and “you never…” After hours or days of fuming about the incident, you (hopefully) eventually cool off and apologize. Is this a cycle in your life?

I invite you to contemplate the negative belief at the core of your reaction. Asking yourself, what do I have to believe about myself in order for me to react so irrationally? This may require several rounds of questions. Each time, begin with what must I believe about myself to feel like that? Eventually, you will hone into a core belief that is in close proximity to your level of self-worth. Yes, a belief.

When you can observe it absent of the emotional charge, you will see that it just simply does not fit with who you know yourself to be: You an emanation of God. Divinity incarnated.

At this point, it just doesn’t make any sense to continue to hold on to it. Upon further contemplation, you will understand that it actually belonged to someone else. You will then see that you adopted it from those who were in authority around you. These are usually our parents, friends, society, loved ones, and teachers. By the time we are in our twenties, the majority of our identity is established through the conditioning of other people.

But when you shine the light of your true consciousness onto a belief or definition that is out of alignment with who you truly are, you will notice that it makes no sense to keep it in your periphery anymore. If you do continue to hold on to it (longer than this moment of recognition), you must ask yourself the question – why? Why would I hold on to something I know is illogical and out of alignment, does not serve my deepest desires, and makes no sense for who I really am. If you hold onto something that is not serving you, you must have created another belief – an unconscious belief, and unconscious reason for ‘why’ it makes sense to do so.

Asking those questions is the precipice of establishing your sovereignty. Once you’ve identified what is not yours, you become in full control of merging with your true identity and changing your reality. Keep going – when that niggling erupts from your belly, ask yourself these questions over and over, going even deeper. As you do so, you are rooting out an unconscious belief and bringing it into the light of consciousness. In quiet reflection or meditation, allow these fundamental non-serving beliefs to drift up and out of the body. Let them float or dissolve them into a mist, or stream of energy that you can perceive in any way you fathom. Then, with gratitude, observe them to dissipate into the time-space continuum. They weren’t yours to begin with. They weren’t real.

In loving grace, be grateful for those contrasting experiences that have enabled you to identify and embrace the TRUE beliefs that align with your soul’s core values. Perceive and project from YOUR beliefs. Live YOUR life.

This is Wisdom. Priceless.