Dear Joshua,
I feel like there is something I need to dig deeper and grasp about the notion of belief. For instance, I "believe" what you tell me, and therefore I "believe" that I create my own reality and that I am a magnificent, limitless being of pure positive love and acceptance. The reality I currently live and perceive, however, says otherwise, and I'm ok with that. I am where I am and I know I am expanding everyday. But my point is that I think I am confusing "knowledge" and "belief". So, could you say that a "belief" is actually a manifestation of "knowledge", first as a feeling and then as a reflection in your physical reality?
With love,
Arnaud
Dear Arnaud,
That is right. Knowledge is the belief that something is true. A fact is a highly intense belief. It could be a beneficial belief or a limiting belief, but a fact is no more than a tightly held belief. Knowledge might be the accumulation of facts around a certain subject. So then, knowledge is nothing more that a set of beliefs about something. Your reality tends to form around your beliefs. It is a reflection of your beliefs, your knowledge, your expectations, your fears, desires, and feelings and your opinion of self. Change any of that and you change your reality.
If you change your perception of yourself, your reality changes. Your perception of yourself is really created by your beliefs about yourself. It's the knowledge of the Self. Some of those beliefs are flexible, such as your belief that you are good and worthy, and some are more rigid, such as your perception of your ability to create abundance in your life. You might call it a fact that you have a certain amount of money in your bank account, but that is simply a tightly held and highly intense belief. Alter that belief (or the beliefs around your ability to attract money) and your bank account will change. The numbers in your bank account are actually quite easy to change because they are simply digital representations of your idea of abundance as it relates to you. Change that belief and your bank account easily shifts to reflect a more empowering belief.
You might go to school and get a university degree. The process of going through the experience changes you because you expand with each new experience and your beliefs about yourself and the world around you change with the accumulation of "knowledge." Your beliefs are different at the end of the experience of school than they were at the beginning and this is what enables you to see yourself as more worthy. For instance, had you not gone through the university experience, then they way you approach a job interview, or a perspective mate, for instance, would be completely different because you would think differently about yourself. The fact that you cannot remember 97% of what you learned is proof that the knowledge gained from this education is the knowledge of who you are, not what you learned. The education was just the process of coming to a new awareness of who you really are. All you did was elevate your opinion of you. You can do this without an education. All we are doing in this conversation is helping you to see yourself from a higher perspective.
Who you really are is a magnificent and limitless being of pure positive love and acceptance. Who you are now is a limited version of that. Who you were six months ago was a limited version of who you are now. Who you will be in six months is a less limited version of who you are now. Since it is simply fear that limits you, the process of expansion is enhanced by the ability to analyze and move through fear. The relative success of this interaction with us will not just be the modification of beliefs about yourself, but your newfound ability to process fear and move through it to pursue things you are inspired to pursue.
This life is really easy if you approach it in a way that conforms with universal law. You work on feeling good so that you can receive inspiration. The inspiration will always be for your benefit and lead to the unfolding of your desires. You will come to realize that your true desires are far more important and meaningful than the things you think you want. Your true desires were the intentions you set prior to your birth. You do not really know what these are, but you do know that they are based on the authentic version of who you are. Since you are good, worthy, right, abundant and free, your true desires align perfectly with the highest version of you. When these desires unfold, you will feel exhilaration and bliss. This is your birthright. Therefore, moving through fear and acting when inspired to act is the only thing you ever have to do. Right now, in this somewhat more limited state, you are not always open to inspiration, because you are not always feeling good and confident. When you feel inspiration, you often talk yourself out of it because you have not yet discovered the ability to analyze and process fear so that it becomes less intense in order for you to move through it. Also, you tend to doubt the inspiration and therefore your desire to take the steps in front of you is often weaker than the fear that confronts you.
The reality that you live in right now does not say that you are not magnificent, worthy, limitless or even that you aren't a being of love. It says none of that. What it says is that you perceive yourself not as a magnificent being of pure positive love and acceptance, but as a limited version of that. That's all your current reality is reflecting. It's not reflecting the truth, it's reflecting your opinion of you and your role in the world. Change that opinion and your reality must change to reflect who you think you are.
With our love,
We are Joshua
