What The Mind Can Achieve
One of my favorite quotes is the famous line spoken by Napoleon Hill in Think & Grow Rich
“What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
Sounds good doesn’t it?
When our minds accept that something is true, a belief, then our mind sets in motion any and all events to make that our reality.
Whatever beliefs, thoughts, and ideas that your mind
becomes familiar with, or is conditioned to, must become
a part of you and that is who you become.
But how do we get our minds to conceive and believe,
and ultimately achieve, the things we want?
The mind is like having our own personal little computer
- it just tosses out results based on the instructions we
give it.
When we want different results, we must give our minds new
instructions to follow.
Some call it self-suggestion, others call it auto-suggestion,
others call it subliminal messaging, but I like the term
reframing.
Reframing is when you continuously introduce new ideas
and thoughts into your mind until they become a dominant
belief.
The amount of time it takes to reframe new beliefs into
your mind will depend on how consistently you introduce
new thoughts versus the amount of time you spend thinking
about your current beliefs.
Imagine a cup of dirty water (your current beliefs).
If you begin to add clean water (new thoughts) to the
cup, eventually you will end up with a cup of clean water
(new beliefs).
It also depends on the amount of beliefs you have in your
mind that need to be reframed. Replacing a cup of dirty
water takes less time that replacing something the size
of a bathtub, or a swimming pool.
Beliefs are really nothing more than thoughts - ideas that
we think are true. The truth is that beliefs are not facts,
they are only thoughts. Sure they may look like facts
because our outer world has been arranged to match our
beliefs.
We can choose to think and believe whatever we want.
The more we think a new thought, the more it becomes a
belief. Once these new beliefs have become a part
of our subconscious, then our world must change to
match our new beliefs.
“What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can
achieve.”
Alexander Graham Bell knew that if he held the concept
of the telephone in his mind, the ideas, people and
resources to make it a reality would come to him.
Rhonda Byrne (creator of The Secret) knew that if she
held a vision of perfect eyesight in her mind that her
subconscious mind would make that a reality. And it took
only 3 days!
And I know that if you make the choice to have a new
belief, your world will change to make that a reality.
Sounds good doesn’t it?