Choose Beliefs That Make You Happy
From THE WEALTHY SPIRIT: DAILY AFFIRMATIONS by Chellie Campbell
“Life precedes form and life survives the last atom of form. Through the countless days
proceeds the life-ray, the one, like a thread through many jewels.”—The Book of Dzyan
One lazy Sunday afternoon, I opened up my keepsake trunk and pulled out
some of my old scrapbooks. Nostalgically, I reminisced over pictures of high
school dances, dried flowers from the corsage I wore at the cotillion, drama
reviews of plays performed, bits of cheerleading pompom. I remembered the
hopes and dreams of the girl I was then and the fun I had dancing through
days dappled with sunlight and shadows.
The phone rang, bringing me back to current reality. It was my friend, Carol.
When she asked me what I’d been doing, I told her I had been having fun
looking through my “remembrances of things past.”
“Ugh,” Carol exclaimed. “I hate to do that.”
“You do?” I asked. “Why?”
“Because it reminds me how fast life is passing and how much time is gone
already. I’m getting older and there’s a shorter and shorter length of time left to
live.”
“Well, of course, that’s true. But then there’s the next life to look forward to!”
“No, I don’t believe in that,” said Carol. “There’s only one life and this is it. I’m
an atheist. When you die there’s nothing.”
“Oh, I can see why that would make you feel bad. It must be scary, too,” I
commiserated.
Carol agreed that it was very scary—and depressing.
“Well then, Carol,” I said, “I think you should change your beliefs. We are both
experiencing the passing of time, but I’m happy about it and you’re miserable.”
“But I believe what I believe!” she protested. “I can’t just change my beliefs!”
“Sure you can,” I replied. “Look at it logically: If you’re right, when I die—I won’t
know. There’ll just be nothing. But I’ll live this whole life happily, thinking my
beliefs are true. Your belief, on the other hand, makes you miserable. And if I’
m right, and there’s a life on the other side of this one, you’re going to be very
surprised. And you would have been unhappy all this time for no reason. So
the smart choice is to choose a belief that makes you happy to believe it right
now!”
I’m not sure she got it. Do you? Re-examine all your beliefs right now. What
limiting beliefs do you have—about anything—that make you miserable? Find
evidence to believe things that make you happy instead. You can believe that
“the world is a terrible place” and prove it by example. But I can say, “The world
is a beautiful place,” and prove it just as easily. For which belief do you want to
gather proof? Do you want to think positive or not?
Today’s Affirmation: “All my beliefs are positive and make me happy!"
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A LITTLE ABOUT CHELLIE . . .
Chellie Campbell is the creator of the popular Financial Stress Reduction®
Workshops, and the author of The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire, both
published by Sourcebooks, Inc. She is one of Marci Shimoff's “Happy 100” and
1 of 18 who wrote a story for Marci’s current NYT bestseller Happy for No
Reason. Chellie contributed stories to Jack Canfield’s recent books You’ve Got
to Read This Book! and Life Lessons from Chicken Soup for the Soul , and is
featured in How to Run Your Business Like a Girl by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin
and Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash by Liz Perle. She is
prominently quoted as a financial expert in The Los Angeles Times, Pink, Good
Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and more than 35 popular
books. For more information, visit her web site www.Chellie.com or email her at
Chellie@Chellie.com.
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