Have you ever wondered why so many different belief management techniques work? For example, The Sedona Method, NLP, EFT, BSFF are all good belief management tools.

Why is that?

What is the common component that makes all of them work so well?

The answer is simple: They all get you out of your mind! Let me explain... most of us live most of our life in our mind. We end up believing that we are our mind. We feel that we have no control over what we think.

Well, that is true and false. It depends. You see, you think in pictures. Your mind is like a movie theater, running movies all the time, with you as the main character in them. There are sound tracks, inner dialogues, pictures, colors, sounds, odors etc....

This is how we think. We spend most of our lifetime as the character of these movies. We feel the pain of the character; we are in the movie of our mind. We feel it with all our senses. The problem is that as long as we are in the movie we are totally powerless to change the course of the script, the inner dialogues, or any of it.

We are trapped into it. We believe we have no power over what is going on in our mind. We believe that if we think something, or if we believe something, it means it is true.

...That there is nothing to do about it. It is the only possible reality.

But listen, there is another perspective that we humans have that we forget to explore: We have the ability to get out of the picture and observe the movie from a neutral perspective. And the great thing about it is that as soon as we take that perspective we have tremendous power to change what is going on. We become the director of the movie. We immediately have the ability to decide what to do with the sound track and the dialogues. We have this power simply because we are in alignment with our source energy, our higher self.

Even if we don't change the course of the present moment, we can change the sound track, the inner dialogues, the way the character experiences the event. We have actually total control over how our character feels and thinks about every experience.

Remember the principles of the law of attraction. When you feel OK with what is, you automatically begin changing what you are attracting; and the movie script is able to evolve in the direction you prefer to take it. There are two advantages to managing your thoughts, as the director of your movie:

1- You, as the character, are better able to feel every moment, even feeling peace where peace didn't seem possible before;

2- By changing the way you feel in the present moment you are changing the script, creating new possibilities, and attracting more situations that feel good! In a few words... you have regained total control over your life!

If you think I am exaggerating, read what Napoleon Hill tells us in Think and Grow Rich:

'You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's divine nature. This divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may control your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.'

So we know that managing our thoughts is not only possible but necessary to having a happy and successful life. But how do we do that? The field of belief management is full of strange and seemingly diverse techniques. Which one works the best?

The good news is that they all work. They all use the same core method. Let's take the Sedona Method, for example. In the Sedona Method you ask yourself four questions: 1. Can I welcome this feeling (that I've been resisting)? 2. Can I let it go? 3. Will I let it go? 4. When?

This is a very powerful process. Why? Well, first you welcome the feeling. There is no way you can get control over something that you either resist or that you deny exists. So at that stage you are IN the scene. You are IN your mind. You are feeling that thought.

But as soon as you ask yourself 'Can I let it go?' you shift from inside the thought to being an observer of it. Then you choose what to do with it. That is when you are in your power, in your higher self's shoes. That is when you decide! Do you want to change it? Do you want to keep it? YOU DECIDE. If you know NLP, or other effective tools such as the Q-Word method, I have developped, you will notice the same pattern.

1st you accept/discover/welcome what you think/feel. 2nd you observe it, get out of it. You change your view point from inside it (being it)to outside of it. 3rd you decide what you want to do with it (use the power you have as the creator of your life, as your higher self).

The Q-Word method (fully described in my e-book: ,a href="http://creationmastery.com/bookstore.html">M-Power) is powerful because it uses this approach also: 1st, feel the feeling/thought you want to eliminate; 2nd, recognize that it is a belief/emotion (so you are looking at it from the outside, you are shifting perspective); 3rd, decide to dissolve it and repeat your Q-Word with this intention.

So, for example, think of something you are resisting; something you don't want to keep feeling. Let's say you feel anger towards someone you know, and you want to stop feeling that way. 1st, get in touch with this anger (you are feeling it in your body). 2nd, say to yourself: I clear all the anger I have about Joe (you see you are now outside of it; you are managing it, making the decision to clear it). 3rd, with the INTENTION to clear it, dissolve it with your favorite method.

If you know the Q-Word method, just repeat your Q-Word for 30 seconds or so.

Check how you feel. If there is still some anger, repeat the process until it is totally dissolved. Keep clearing during your day. You are not a victim of your thoughts. You can change them as you prefer! The more you clear your resistance, the closer you get to living in your higher self and having the power of creating your life as you prefer.

Colette Streicher, LMSW PS: For more articles from Colette go to : http://creationmastery.com click on Archives. PSS: For more information about Colette's M-Power book and other products go to : http://creationmastery.com/bookstore.html

About the Author

Colette Streicher is the founder of Creation Mastery E-Newsletter on the Law of Attraction. She has been intrigued with the power of the mind all her life. After becoming a psychotherapist, she found out that there was a new field of research in using energy therapy to dissolve negative thoughts and emotions where results were short of miraculous.

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