Sometimes people feel really badly about themselves.  They feel like a loser and a failure.  When that’s the belief, the world starts to reflect it back to us and then we’re convinced.  We don’t realize we have to change our mind to have a different experience.  Oh, we get so convinced!  It’s plain awful to feel that way – and it’s also completely false.

As a counselor, working with so many people, I can honestly say I’ve yet to mean someone that wasn’t remarkable, wonderful, gifted, and completely lovable.  Truly.  Yet, I know I’ve felt that I was a loser and a failure, so I understand that it has nothing to do with what’s actually going on in our lives.  It’s a false perception, and it can be very convincing.

One of the things I was convinced of is that I didn’t have enough time.  It was a constant problem for me and I’d get so upset if I thought I’d wasted time.

When I was in my 20’s, several times I went through these experiments to try to force myself to sleep less so I could accomplish more.  Each time I made myself really sick from sleep deprivation, too much coffee.

I kept thinking I was failing because I wasn’t accomplishing more.  

I finally gave up trying to do that.

(BTW, when my spiritual practice strengthened, I went from sleeping 9 hours a night to 7 hours a night pretty quick.)

It took me a long time to get rid of the belief that my worth was tied to what I accomplished.  Now, I know, I am not the sum of my accomplishments.

I’ve known so many people who’ve really struggled and suffered because they believed they should be accomplishing more.  People I know who’ve accomplished so much, in terms of their spiritual growth and development will still feel badly that they haven’t accomplished more in the world.

False beliefs are so debilitating.  Just managing and coping with them can eat away at our life force and leave us feeling bankrupt.

Next Saturday I’m doing a workshop on how to Unblock the Flow of Your Time, Energy & Money, and I’m thinking about this topic a lot.

It’s been so liberating to let go of the issue with time and I’d like to help others do the same.

There are certain things we can shift and change that truly open up the sense of boundless energy.

One of the ways that people play small is to constantly be struggling with money.

These three issues are related.

And that’s the good news because in healing one we can heal all three.  That’s what I’m interested in.

There’s a direct path to healing these issues.  For most people it looks like trying to make changes in the world, but that’s not true healing at the root cause.

We try to free up more time and be more productive with our time, but it doesn’t actually heal our issues with time.

Similarly, we try to eat differently, exercise, and take herbs to have more energy, but that just reinforces the idea that the problem is in the world.

The answer to money issues is not money.  It just seems like it is.

All of these issues are spiritual issues and the way to a direct path of healing is shifting our beliefs.  I’m for lasting healing.  Yes, that takes some effort, some work.  It seems like we’ll fail because we’ve tried in the past and it didn’t work.

But that attests only to our methods not to our ability to heal our life through the transformation of our mind.  Let’s always remember that.