What we hold true in our minds tends to become true in our lives.  For example, if we believe that eating a healthy diet will make us healthy, then it likely will.  Each of us must honour our own beliefs by staying true to ourselves.  It is not a matter of right or wrong because health is not right or wrong.  We can learn to recognize illness as a blessing, seeing the spiritual value of such a message in our lives.  It confronts us with the question, “What beliefs need to be healed?”

Deception is all around us, especially when it comes to alternative medicine.  Be careful when following the advice of a new age health practitioner that ask “too much” of you.  Treating your mind like a garden, why would you go and add poisons willingly to the soil.  Soil and plant life need daily care, diligence, precision etc.  So does the belief system need that attention.  Each positive believe integrated adds to the bank of positivity in ones life.  Contrast to a negative belief which is like an infestation on the soil.  We need to amend our beliefs with the appropriate solutions and realize that some people do not have our best interest in mind!

If the intention is to honour one’s self, then one can instantly see how knowledge of their belief system is helpful.  Once in a while we may say to ourselves, “how did that get there!”.  Some beliefs are better to be healed than worshiped for that is what we do when we hold something in mind.  It becomes worshiped as the truth.  Few of us have ever examined our beliefs or been faced with the stunning knowing, be careful what you wish for because it may actually come true.  Most of us are tied up in wishing for things to happen to us that will improve everything.  The power to improve lies within.

How can we protect ourselves from beliefs that are untrue?  In this world where we are bombarded with information that is geared towards manipulation of desire and pleasure, we have the ultimate task of recognizing what we really need.  We must ask, “do I need a new car to be truly happy?”.  The marketing department of any car dealership would like you to think so because their job depends on it.  Contrary to popular belief, happiness is also within.

Popular belief is actually just that, what most people think that is true, does not make it truth.  Truth is an altogether different affair.  To be infatuated with truth is to meticulously take apart every belief in illusion.  Our current society constantly perpetuates illusion for the sole sake of selling us something.  The traditional spiritual path of seclusion, removal from society and a life of devotion has its appeal.  There is a sigh of relief when the media is actually stopped in our lives.  Perhaps, though, the greater challenge is facing it and remaining unaffected by it.  This takes conviction and courage to go against the grain of society against all odds.

As a youth I wondered how people could be so blind as to believe in popular trends.  It seemed to me that the masses we all marching to the beat of the same drum that was fabricated by media crafting.  We all follow to.  Where is the meaning in a world that is the blind following the blind?  My mistake was thinking that the world needed to be healed from this condition of ignorance.  Ironically, that was my own ignorance because I too had similar blinders on.  We tend to see in the world the deficiency in ourselves projected onto the world.  More difficult is the reversal of the judgement and an inner honesty that allows for the eye to turn inwards.

A person who eats organic food is no better than a person who is starving on the streets or in a third world country.  The whole idea of “better” is manipulated by the media that hopes to sell you what you think you need to get better.  Under the disguise of the latest miracle cure, countless sales are made for the industry that hopes to turn a profit.  It occurs to me that no one really markets broccoli.  There is no need to advertise an apple.  Its value is plain.  A herb is valuable because it has certain medicinal properties, documented from centuries of clinical experience.  Flowers are beautiful because they are and there is no need to launch a multimillion dollar marketing campaign to let people know they will get joy our of a rose.

“Better” is our interpretation of what we perceive and quite often we give that power away to popular belief.  Just because many people believe that getting drunk is a good thing to do, doesn’t mean it is better than staying home.  Dr. Jensen would say, “Where all people think alike, no one thinks much”.  I think first we have to realize that our beliefs have power and then we can start to do something about it.  We can start by understanding that the program of our mind is up to us and that blindly following the advice of the most common person may not be the smartest thing to do.  I think the goal is to have one’s personal beliefs be in alignment with truth as much as possible, then to honour what is accepted as “my truth”.

Namaste

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