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How do you know if a negative belief is being played out? Look at your life. You attract things to you according to your belief systems. Since your head is chronically aching, what belief may be going on underneath that creates that unpleasant result?

The body will mirror whatever the mind is presenting. If your mind is believing that you should always keep worrying and you should give yourself a hard time, who wouldn?t end up with a headache? Get the picture?

Now, our beliefs seem to be true because the way we perceive the world is based on those beliefs. We have had these beliefs so long that most of us hold them as self-evident truths and don?t even realize that they are just beliefs. Then sub-consciously, we set up events to re-confirm and prove those beliefs. The subconscious belief ?I am not lovable? can cause a person to be clingy, withdrawn or in some manner unattractive so that others are not drawn to them, and now they have their proof. ?See I?m not lovable.? That?s how it works. All negative patterns, traits, circumstances, even physical health issues can be created by beliefs.

Belief systems are LEARNED in childhood. They are learned patterns and behaviors. They are not inherently part of us. We learn them from our parents, family, teachers, and whoever else raised us or was involved in our lives. Beliefs are not who we are. They are just beliefs. They can be completely shifted, changed and unlearned!! When we humans are born, our psyche is like a clean slate or a blank computer screen. As we grow our brain/psyche absorbs anything and everything.

It is a scientific fact that human beings are born with far less knowledge and instincts than any other species. Unlike a horse or a dog that will walk soon after it is born, humans don?t have that capability. If you were to leave a baby alone during infancy, it would not be able to survive. Although we have consciousness and thought, we are born not knowing who we are. Since that knowledge isn?t built in, we have to learn who we are and how to be ourselves in the world. Eighty percent of our ?core? or emotional learning we will learn in our lifetime by the age of 3. From birth to age 3, we learn by simply absorbing everything around us like a sponge, without the ability for discretion or filtering. We learn everything as if it were true. For example, if an infant is crying, he/she has the experience of suffering. If the parent does not know what is needed and therefore does not respond, the baby could be learning beliefs such as: ?Life is painful,? ?Life is hard,? ?I?m not understood,? ?I can?t get my needs met,? ?It?s not safe to trust people,?etc. This is how the subconscious is formed.

Thus, whatever we experience is imprinted as ?the truth? of how life is--forming what is known as our subconscious or core beliefs. It is these beliefs that direct the rest of our lives. These beliefs remain as our deepest experiences of life. Negative beliefs can sabotage our relationships, career, self-image, and overall happiness. This is why we fail at diets, break commitments to ourselves; stay stuck in negative habits and addictions, and cannot make the changes that we truly want. If we really want to heal and change our lives, we need to identify and heal our old negative beliefs.