3 Tools Responsible For Shaping Your Destiny
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.” Carl Jung Psychiatrist
Although humans share more than 99.6% DNA, we are incredibly different. Our appearances are just the tip of the iceberg. Our real and profound differences are on a much deeper level, they are in our hearts and heads. They are our beliefs, values and thoughts. So the next times you hear the words: “what counts is what’s inside” you will not only agree but understand the wisdom behind these words.
Most of our beliefs and values were silently built into us during childhood by people we grew up with. These were formed by our first experiences and also by the society we live in and the culture around us. Unfortunately most of us are unaware of them. We don’t even realise they are built so solidly inside us and already playing a decisive role shaping our destinies.
Values, beliefs and thoughts design who we really are. The ways we perceive everything around us are greatly supported by our values, beliefs and thoughts. They dictate how we see life, how we judge people and events, how we communicate, how we interpret what we hear and see. They determine our destiny for they can sabotage or support our goals.
Values, beliefs and thoughts are the reason we do and say things in a certain way and consequently produce the results we do. The results will of course reinforce our values, beliefs and thoughts forming a never ending cycle.
Our minds work to guarantee that our values, beliefs and thoughts are not contradicted. The conscious mind can only be occupied with a maximum of two things at the same time while the subconscious mind can perform zillions of tasks simultaneously. The subconscious mind commands our behaviour and our communication on all levels. It also controls the information we take in. If the new piece of information doesn’t match with our values and beliefs the subconscious filters it.
This process as you can imagine has quite a big impact in our lives as we will walk through life perceiving only things that are compatible with our truth and disregarding the ones that are opposite to our truth. We only see what we believe is possible. A very famous example of it is ‘The Christopher Columbus Story’. When the Columbus ships were approaching the Caribbean Islands, the Native American Indians couldn’t see them at all even though the ships were right in front of their eyes. The Shaman was the first one who started seeing weird waves over the water and it wasn’t until they actually landed on the beach that The Indians eventually saw them. The ships were so unlike anything they had ever seen before that their subconscious completely disregarded them.
Are you able to see the opportunities right in front of you? Or is your subconscious mind filtering them out? What are your values, beliefs and thoughts? Are they leading you in the right direction? If not, it is time for reflexion and a switch of values, beliefs and thoughts.
Daily Life Tips | Carmen Beese October 13, 2008
