Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Belief


“Belief” is a small word but it carries the power of doing and achieving anything and everything in the world. Belief in self makes you do every task successfully; belief in God makes good things happen and belief in nature makes the impossible, possible. It is your beliefs which shape-up your life. Your beliefs create your realities. A pinch of doubt in belief works like water on fire. With even a dash of doubt, belief loses all its meaning. If you believe in something, it has to be with full and complete faith; literally speaking. Presence of even a slightest bit of contradiction, fails the power of belief.
There are certain facts we grow up with and our mind adopts and believes those facts. This is so because we have been told and taught that way. For example, we know that a steel spoon will not bend on its own as it is not flexible. It will bend only if we apply force on it. This is our belief. We never doubt it or question its logic. This belief is complete without a trace of doubt. Our mind knows that the contradictory is impossible. Since the belief is so strong, it becomes a reality and the opposite, an impossible logic. Even if we think that we can bend a steel spoon without applying physical pressure on it and try the same, it will not happen because the original fact is still existent somewhere in our mind, however minute it is. The belief is not complete. As is said earlier, belief can make the impossible, possible. To believe in something, which we believe is impossible, we have to train our mind towards that path. We have to concentrate hard enough to accept the “impossible” and remove all traces of doubt. It might take days, months or years to achieve it. Belief in a certain fact for years is not easy to wipe off from your mind in just a few minutes. It is surely difficult, but possible. If someone with full dedication and concentration makes himself believe fully that he can bend the spoon just by looking at it and there is not an inch of doubt, whatsoever, it will surely happen. The only thing to remember is that the mind is free from all doubts and the belief is strong enough to make it a reality.
This is true for everything in life. Whatever you dream of, can be yours; whatever you want to achieve, can be achieved; whatever you want happening, will happen – just the belief has to be total without any room for doubt.
Developing complete belief in something, which you have always thought otherwise, is not an easy task, but surely not impossible. It is a long and slow process. You have to train your mind in a different way. Your mind is like a sheet of paper full of words written on it. You have to erase the words and write new words on it; of course the paper cannot be changed. It is difficult to erase the ink, but with a lot of effort and dedication, you can do it. It might take a little too long, but if the efforts are sincere, it will happen. Once the ink is erased fully and the paper is free of any mark, you can easily write new words on it. Similarly, you have to clear your mind of all the pre-conceived notions and the so-called facts, which will again involve meditation, concentration, dedication, effort and time. Once this is done and the mind is clear like a plain sheet of paper, you can start inputting your new beliefs in it. Since all the facts have already been cleared, there will be no question of any doubt. This will make the belief complete and strong enough to be true.
Have belief and you can achieve anything in life, be it name, fame, power, wealth, success….the list goes on. Things become impossible if “belief” is missing. Move ahead and make your dreams a reality just by believing.