Beliefs

I chose the 'Wealth & Wisdom' oracle card deck authored by my friend, Jaden Sterling, for your reading today.  Yesterday, Jaden launched the App for downloading and using his deck on your phone or Ipad.  I downloaded my copy right away!  Go to Jaden Sterling's Facebook page to find out how to download yours...it is being offered for half-price during this launch period. The card that slipped out of the deck for you today is 'Beliefs'. Jaden's message for the card is this:
"The Universe is providing you an opportunity now to look at your belief system.  Do your beliefs support you or stop you from manifesting your goals? Remember beliefs are boomerangs; what you believe to be true comes back to you.

ACTION:  Challenge your current beliefs by taking an inventory of what is working in your life and what isn't.
Ask and answer the questions:
1) What are my beliefs about my professional and spiritual life and do they support each other?
2) Where did my beliefs come from?"

My message for you today is this:
A BELIEF is very different, energetically from a THOUGHT... A belief, is a thought that you give time and attention to repetitively and therefore it impacts your vibration and your experience more than just a fleeting thought would.  Yet you can shift your belief system when you choose to be conscious about the thoughts that you give your time and attention to.  No doubt you've come across the quote that states: "What you focus upon expands."  In a way this is alluding to your belief system.  If you hold a certain belief, then that is what you are most likely to attract into your life experience.  Yet, by shifting your BELIEF around something, you can then shift what you draw to yourself; even though it often takes some time for that to happen (which is where our 'instant gratification' way of being these days can trip some people up).   We are speaking to the Law of Attraction here.
Have you heard about the story that the actor, Jim Carrey, has shared about how he would 'visualize' his future success as an actor?  Despite his current circumstances---in which we was a struggling actor in California---he ACTIVELY took on the BELIEF of success as an actor for himself.  He wrote himself a cheque for $10,000,000.00 (yep! 10 million dollars!) for 'acting services rendered' and he gave himself 3 years; he dated it Thanksgiving 1995 and he kept it in his wallet. Although he continued to struggle along, just before Thanksgiving 1995 he found out that he was going to make ten million dollars on the movie 'Dumb and Dumber'.  Jim says in an interview with Oprah that ". . .you can't just visualize and then go eat a sandwich. . ." You have to work hard toward your goal.  Oprah synopsizes what Jim shares in that interview as "If you can see it, and believe it, it is a lot easier to achieve it."
(I encourage you to look up Jim Carrey's speech on Youtube titled, "The Power of Intention and Visualization by Jim Carrey and Oprah Winfrey".  It is a synopsis of various speeches he has given on spirituality. As Oprah says, who knew that Jim Carrey would be such a great spiritual teacher? 
Here's a personal example of how a belief can affect what we pull into our experience: Although many people have a natural aptitude for stepping into the technological world of Iphones and Ipads and laptops, etc. that have become such a large part of how we now communicate, I absolutely did NOT consider myself one of them!  I used to say, "I am striving to make friends with technology" when I spoke about my endeavors to record and burn cd's of readings for my clients; and all other necessary undertakings with technology (like navigating postings on Facebook and running a website for my business)...all very intimidating for me, because I did not see myself as having any aptitude for that 'tech stuff'! 
One day as I stated "I am striving to make friends with technology" to a client, she reminded me: "By saying it that way, you are keeping it in the FUTURE...you need to say 'I AM a tech goddess!'  Ha!  Great reminder.  My belief was that I would always be struggling with technology and so therefore, I would always be struggling to make friends with technology! 
Now...I am not going to tell you that I am that tech goddess that you should go to for tech advice!  However, I do understand that for things to run smoothly for me in regards to working with technology I have to let go of the limiting belief that I just can't do it (and to also seek 'expert' support, when I need it...such as in setting up my website)!
You are being asked today to look to a belief that you hold that may not be supporting you in some aspect of your life...the first thing to come to mind is what you are being asked to look at.  NO self-judgment...that is NOT what this is about...quite the opposite.  This is about choosing to look at the current belief you hold around what comes to mind, and how you can choose to shift that belief to one that will serve you better, regardless of your current life circumstances.  Then BELIEVE in your BELIEF!  Witness how the Universe conspires in your favour...
Blessed be...