“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”- William James
In the Toltec tradition, they make a differentiation between the person who is the artist and the one who is kind of the canvas.
So, the artist is an artist painting the masterpiece of their life, they are holding the brush, they decide how they want to make themselves, they basically forge themselves.
These people really decide how they want to be, and how they want to show up in life.
They express what they want to be, and how they want to interact with this incredible school of life that we have available to us.
Then, the other side are people who are just constantly getting paint splattered on them from other people, or parents telling them what they should be.
These people swallow everything they are told to do, and what to be. Oh, you should be this or that; you should do this or should do that; you need to look like this, and dress like that.
These people are constantly being shaped by external pressure.
Other people are just shouting their expectations, beliefs to them.
You see, in life you either conform to these external pressures and expectations, or you say, “No, no, no! I don’t take that, I’m the artist, I’ll decide what I accept.”
You can make your beliefs work for you instead of them working against you, which is weaponising your beliefs.
This is using your healthy and supportive beliefs to propel you towards your good and desired life.
Now, it’s time to let go of the beliefs that are working against your desires of elevating your life.
Forgive yourself for what happened in the past, and understand that you’re not the same person you were then.
