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Chuck’s Place: How To Believe

The power of the internal dialogue…
-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

The foundation for belief, in this world, is socialization. We believe what we are told. The advertising industry spends billions of dollars a year to attract our attention, tell us what to believe, and, ultimately, control how we behave.

Although we don’t arrive in this world with a blank mental slate, we are nonetheless most influenced in childhood by the rules and judgments presented to us from primary parental figures, authority figures, and peer role models.

Science, with its focus on material proof, has reigned as a standard for believability for a couple of centuries. However, our current modern world is relativizing this standard of truth, with its emphasis upon the dominant role of suggestion in generating belief.

The power to control the narrative, the words used to describe current world challenges or opinions, is everywhere evident. A statement made on X results in a major loss of revenue, as advertisers run for the hills. Books are banned that suggest values or beliefs one disagrees with. I am not making a First Amendment pitch for free speech, but rather giving a neutral acknowledgment of the power of speech upon belief.

Carlos Castaneda emphasized the power of socialization, above all else, to fixate our belief system—and, hence, the world we generate—through shared beliefs with others. Our current world crises reflect a critical breakdown of a coherent belief system. The real current World War is a war of competing beliefs. Beliefs are indeed the deadliest of weapons.

Beliefs are magical spells. Shamans teach that, at a subconscious level, we incessantly repeat internalized beliefs. They call this the internal dialogue that constantly judges everything, most especially the self. The internal dialogue repeats the slogans from our internal advertising agency, which in turn generates our personal truths and how we see the world.

The shamans are consistent with most spiritual practices that encourage arriving at inner silence to suspend the power of fixated beliefs that color our view of ourselves, and the world. From the vantage point of inner silence, we see the relativity and power of belief.

However, as venerable as silence is to spiritual advancement it is not necessary to advance your beliefs. You needn’t even believe in a belief to materialize it. The only requirement is to attract the subconscious mind to a suggestion, even if you don’t consciously believe it. Repeat the suggestion incessantly, like a well-funded advertising campaign. Eventually the subconscious will be influenced and change your world.

Of course, if your suggestion is denying something, like a truth you are uncomfortable to face, though you will experience a shift eventually, you will also generate a latent karma. Karma is merely the outcome of our choices. If we choose to generate an untruth, the effects of that untruth will generate their own suggestions, which will impact the course of our future life. That’s nature’s basic law of balance.

So, what’s best to believe?

Suggestions that promote spiritual advancement experience the karma of fulfillment. We learn how to believe through rote repetition of beliefs that then manifest. As they manifest, even the Doubting Thomas conscious mind gains faith and believes in the power of the subconscious mind to change the world, within and without.

Own your belief,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Monday November 27, 2023

-Artwork © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Maintain stability within and without, on all levels of self, spiritual, mental, physical and emotional. Establish a stable body and mind, as well as stability of your inner self so that no matter where you are or what you are doing you never lose a sense of balance. Stability within the self will naturally bring stability to every encounter, every challenge, every situation that arises. With stability comes a sense of having arrived. And when that sense of having arrived is well anchored then nothing will disturb you. As within, so without.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday November 17, 2023

-Artwork © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Watch out for how the mind connives, telling you things that aren’t true, asking you to believe things that are not possible, letting you off the hook about things that are true, confusing you no end. Let the mind rest peacefully by adopting a process of deep breathing that focuses on the heart center, the chakra of knowing and beauty, of compassion and love. Think from the heart more often and see how things begin to change for the better, for you personally and for the world around you as well.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday November 14, 2023

-Artwork © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Balance within will bring balance without. If you are in balance within yourself that balance will extend naturally from you to all you interact with in your world. If you are calm, you can expect calmness in return. If you are compassionate, you can expect compassion to greet you. If you smile, others smile. When you are at peace within there will be peace without. What you are resonates. Keep this in mind as you go into your day and as you interact with people and pets, as you encounter emotions and feelings, and as you seek a loving and peaceful world, As within, so without.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday November 9, 2023

-Artwork © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Don’t forget to turn to your heart often during the day, to your heart center, checking in to see how you are doing and to remind yourself to keep an open heart, to remain compassionate, kind and loving toward self and other. If you live a heart-centered life things become easier; anger reduces, pain resolves, habits and patterns of behavior that no longer serve you gradually fall by the wayside. In heart-centeredness find your true path, your true state as a loving yet detached being, fully present and compassionate yet without judgment, jealousy, or ego driven to the point of loss of self and loss of feeling. In heart-centered focus, all that is is finally in balance, and so are you.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne