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Born To Win
Not so long ago an acquaintance of mine related an experience from his childhood. As a young boy his teacher had asked the class what they wanted to do when they left school and the boy had innocently answered that he would like to become a pilot.
'You? A pilot?' retorted the teacher, 'they don't even let people like you wash airplanes, let alone pilot them!'
As the man spoke his eyes reddened as if fighting back tears. This was more than forty years later; almost half a century had passed and still the experience haunted him.
He never did become a pilot. Though intelligent, for years he struggled in the most menial of jobs. For years he plodded along following the script written for him by people like his teacher.
That script that said he was worthless and incapable of ever becoming anything of value.
He believed what his teacher had told him and that belief determined his reality.
Each day I meet people just like that man. They, too, have bought into someone else's script. They too have accepted faulty beliefs about whom and what they are and what they can expect from life.
Often the script that they have been acting out was written long ago, in childhood.
Before the age of six or seven we are all in a state of trance. We simply have not had the time to develop a sufficient data base that would allow us to analyze and compare, to filter the perceptions being fed from the outside world. So we accept beliefs unquestioningly, even when those beliefs are false.
And because we are, to such a large extent, our beliefs, those beliefs determine our reality. Simply put, our beliefs become the life that we live.
The good news is that we can change our beliefs. And in so doing, we can change our life. And I know of no better way of accomplishing this than through good hypnotherapy.
Hypnosis enables access to the subconscious mind, the repository of all beliefs, the generator of all feelings.
Stop for just a moment and consider your hopes, your aspirations and your dreams. They are yours for a reason, yet they are not carved in stone.
Now ask yourself this: Are you selling yourself short because of your beliefs?
There is no divine law that compels you to feel shy or fearful, insufficient or inadequate. No power on earth can force you to live a life of quiet desperation or to be a failure if you truly choose otherwise.
The truth is that you were born to live this life to the full. As much as the trees, and the birds that sing from those trees, you have a right to be here and to enjoy your time while you are here.
The race is not won at the starting line, nor is it finished there. Whatever experiences you have passed through, those experiences are not you. They never were you.
It really isn't too late.
You were born to be a winner. Your winning does not mean that someone else must lose. Life is abundant enough. Each and every one of us can be a winner.
It is the beliefs you hold -- and hold onto -- that really determine success or failure. And your beliefs can be changed. You can change them and in so doing you can change your life.
What's stopping you now?
With our beliefs, we make the world.
The Buddha
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