Video Summary:

Happy new year, happy 2024. It's the perfect time of year for new promptings, visions, and glimpses of your new life to come to you. It could be things that you'd like to have in your life. It might be: “I'd like to get to know him/her/them better,” “I'd like to dance more,” or “I'd like to spend more time in nature."

Unfortunately, we often experience a fear-based, limiting belief right after we have one of these cool promptings. The belief tells us why we can't have that prompting. An example includes being drawn to connecting with someone and the limiting belief countering, “People like that don't like people like me.”

Other examples include being drawn to share a new idea with our boss, and the limiting belief saying, “She won't like it and tell me that it's not my place to have ideas.” If we’re prompted to be honest with our significant other, the belief might be, “They will be unhappy with me, and they may even leave me.”

Notice that there's a future-based theme to these limiting beliefs. Fears involve something bad happening in the future and fear-based, limiting beliefs are the same way. If I do this, this will happen. If I'm honest with my kids, they will hate me and not want me to be in their lives.

There are significant fallacies with these limiting beliefs. The first fallacy is that we’re very different now than when these beliefs were established. The things that formed these beliefs happened long ago perhaps during childhood, adolescence, our first marriage, or that dark time after our divorce.

Yet we've preserved these beliefs all these years and here they are, even though we are entirely different. Our level of consciousness is different. The world, situation, and the people around us are vastly different. Yet we make this assumption that the beliefs are still true. If I do this, this terrible thing will happen.

The second fallacy involves the fact that fear-based belief systems are self-fulfilling. When we do not act on our prompting, our limiting belief hijacks our intention. The limiting belief itself acts as the intention.

So the fear-based belief of “If I speak my truth, people will reject me” becomes our intention. That intention goes out and interacts with the universe, and that distorted reality is what comes back to us. We look for it and we find it. We say, “See, I knew if I spoke my truth, they would reject me. So see, it's true.”

Our limiting belief systems are wired to self-fulfill themselves because we offer that energy and that energy comes back. Like attracts like. But if we act on a prompting, then something new can come back.

Only you can drag the old belief systems into your new life. It's like a bad habit. But you could decide to not do that. You'd have to pay attention. You'd have to be aware of your tendency to do that.

One effective way to do this is to think about it in terms of allowing the outcome to be a total mystery. The reality is if we act on one of these new promptings, we don't know what's going to happen. That’s what makes them scary, but it’s also why our limiting beliefs may not apply here.

If I go say hi to that woman that I'm attracted to, I don't know what's going to happen. If I offer my new idea to my boss, I don't know what's going to happen. If I'm really honest with my significant other, I don't know what's going to happen. So why not just acknowledge that and allow it to be a mystery?

Accordingly, my task is not to decide whether or not the outcome will happen. Rather my responsibility is to act on my prompting. I can just focus on talking to the new person, taking the idea to my boss, or being honest with my significant other, and let the chips fall as they may.

Let's find out what's going to happen. Granted at one point in our lives when we did it, it did not go well. So let's find out if that's still true. My life is different and I'm different. And that person that I'm going to talk to is different. So let's find out. Let's let the outcome be a total mystery.

Sure, this can be scary and daunting. We’re used to knowing the outcome because we acted out of our limiting beliefs and comfort zones. So when we act on a prompting, and it’s a mystery, it's intimidating at first. But after a few times, it builds momentum. And life can become mysterious and exciting again.