“Believe and It Will Be” is a phrase originated by a dear friend, a phrase to invoke positive thinking and bring hopeful positive influence into our lives. I never knew how difficult it could be to “believe”. How hard could it be? Really concentrating on believing in something shouldn’t be too difficult, but amazingly enough, it is. For me it is. I try to have good positive thoughts and believe that something that I’m really hopeful to happen is going to happen, but there’s a part of me that just won’t let myself believe “all the way”. I hold back just a little, or maybe a lot, I don’t really know, but I think it’s because if I allow myself to totally believe that a certain something is going to go my way, it won’t and I’ll be in for a major letdown and I’m trying desperately not to be let down. After all, believing that something WILL happen the way I am hoping it will requires more concentration and thought to always think positive and to get rid of that negative thinking that comes so naturally a lot of the time. When there is the possibility that what I want to believe to happen won’t happen, it’s almost easier to give in to that feeling of doom and gloom than it is to “retrain” my mind to think positive and believe in what I’m looking for.
What a happy day it will be when it becomes easier and less stressful to think positive than to be in a negative train of thought day after day.
Wow! You pretty much summed up how I am around the “believe” thing! I totally understand how it’s supposed to work and can see how it could work, but there’s that damn, niggling doubt about giving over to it 100% because of the risk of being disappointed or hurt. I can talk the talk and I can happily other people to both talk and walk, but I don’t necessarily take the walk myself. What’s the point of the talk without the walk? And I’ve just had an “aha” that I hold back on almost everything in my life because of that. Oh, my …
Comment by Ellen — July 20, 2008 @ 5:02 pm