Take a long, slow look around your life. Don't leave anything out! Look at every experience. Next, look at every person. Look at the role they play in your life. Look at the size and shape of your body. Look at the state of your health. Next, turn within. Examine every thought. Examine every feeling. Examine every belief that you currently call a reality in your life. Once you have finished looking, ask yourself. "What monuments have I built to the belief that I am unworthy? Unlovable? Unimportant? Insignificant?"
Think of it this way: In the political world, if you want to harness public opinion or gather evidence about a particular belief you look for statistics. Statistics and opinion polls prove what you want to know and demonstrate what is believed. The same principle holds true in your life, with one slight twist. In your life, you must first believe it. Then you attract or create, consciously or unconsciously, the evidence that proves you are right.
If you believe you are unlovable, you will build relationships to memorialize that belief. If you believe you are a failure, you will attract or create experiences that will statistically prove that which you already believe. If you believe that you are not important, somehow, someway, it will be evidenced in your life by the people and experiences that surround you. The only way to create or attract new experiences is to look at the very clear evidence of what you now believe.
Until today, you may have been unaware of the monuments you have built and evidence you have gathered to support your conscious and unconscious beliefs. Just for today, take a look around. Ask yourself whether or not you are proud of what you have built in your life.
Today I am devoted to observing and examining the monuments that are standing in my life!
From Until Today!
by Iyanla Vanzant
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