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R kelly's wonderful song, "I Believe I Can Fly" holds a special meaning for me and I'm sure many other people. He may not have ever left the ground physically, but he consciously surrounded himself with all the things we all seek at some point in our lives; fame, fortune, fun, work and belief. His belief became his reality.In looking over my life and retracing the footprints I've made, I see that I had done the same thing as Mr. Kelly. Many of the negative experiences I have had were prompted by my beliefs. Beliefs of lack or sickness, envy and failure, on and on, the list is long. At the time, I did not see the beliefs, they were invisible to me. It was someone else who was molding my life for me. It was not me. I was the positive me, I professed myself to be.All the outside problems I saw around me and within me, were created by someone or something else; my neighbor, co-worker, family member, school, government. All a plot to sabotage this well meaning guy. I was a victim of my own thoughts and beliefs and I also passed them on to others so they might feel my pain. Seeing others enjoying all the things I should have been enjoying in my life, made my burden worse. How could they be better, smarter, richer, healthier, than this person I had created physically? I had to find some answers.The answers of course were within me all along. I was consciously creating my situations with my own thoughts and beliefs. I had to look at my own beliefs not the beliefs of others. What did I really believe about this self of mine? How did I perceive myself? Fat, ugly, slow, small, careless. arkward, selfish, boring. poor, greedy, hopeless? As I went through this process I realized I was believing all the negative thoughts about me, and pushed the positive aspects of me in a dark corner of my mind. I made them invisible. I did not believe I could fly, in fact my wings were hidden in that dark corner. What I believed I became and it was time to change.Consciously, I looked at myself in the mirror and changed my thoughts. I wrote down what I wanted to be and what I needed to believe, to experience and express that me. One by one, I eliminated the negative thoughts, wrapping them in love and releasing them. Some were more stubborn than others, so I would repeat the process whenever I thought about them. I still do that, in the world of dualities, negativity sits patiently in the corners, but I am sticking them to the walls of yesterday.As R Kelly says: "If I can see it, then I can do it, if I just believe it, there's nothing to it. I believe I can fly".
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Hal Manogue is a poet and author of Short Sleeves A Book For Friends. An insightful collection of thoughts for the 21st century. The 2006 Collection and 2007 Collection are available in bookstores and online. Visit Hal's website: www.shortsleeves.net or his blog: halmanogue.blogspot.com/ to read more about his work and life.
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