“What you believe about the world and about yourself shapes your attitude toward life. Negative beliefs cause you to develop a pessimistic attitude, which gives rise to negative emotions. As a result, you behave in ways that attract unpleasantness into your experience. Positive beliefs, on the other hand, produce a more optimistic attitude and emotions, which help you act in ways that bring you fulfillment and happiness. Your beliefs, attitudes, and emotions are constantly creating your personal reality.
The concept of your beliefs creating reality also works because what you send out through your thoughts and actions always returns to you. And it not only returns — it comes back multiplied! If you’re spewing out negative thoughts and feelings, you actually cause others to feel angry, sad, or unhappy, and you also attract back to yourself even more negativity than you send out! This happens because ‘what goes around comes around,’ which means that you not only have your own unpleasant stuff to deal with, but you make yourself a magnet for the negativity you’ve unwittingly encouraged in others.
Your beliefs can create a vicious circle of negativity or a positive focus of encouragement. If you believe that life is nothing but a struggle and that people are out to get you, you’ll be overwhelmed by unpleasant behaviors and events. But if you choose to see life as an interesting journey on which you’ll meet lots of folks, most of whom are basically good, you’ll find yourself enriched in some way by everyone and everything you encounter. Your beliefs create your experience.”
What You Believe Is What You Receive, Shelby Beckett, p. 1-4.
