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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
June 27, 2023
The focus for today is:
I take the time to question my thinking,
and consciously change my beliefs.
Today's inspiration was written by Carla van Raay:
Are you a person who one day asked herself (or himself): I wonder if my thoughts are accurate? I wonder if I should really believe all my thoughts without question? I wonder if my thoughts actually represent the ultimate truth about myself, about others and about life? If you did, then on that day you took a major step toward wisdom, even if you didn’t know in that moment how to have better thoughts.
If you have never questioned your thinking, if you have never taken the trouble to consciously change your beliefs, then you are running on what you learned during childhood, which are your immature interpretations of what other people have said to you.
Take some time every day to sit down with yourself to become aware of your beliefs. Write them down on paper or on the computer and list them so you can look at them and see how they have been operating in your life. This is called ‘getting to know yourself’, although it’s not the whole of it. It is just getting to know the false beliefs you have been carrying around that are limiting you.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
How Can We Change The Thoughts We Tend to Believe?
Written by Carla van Raay
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of taking the time to question your thinking and your beliefs (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: Our beliefs are a bit like a spider web. A series of threads spun by ourselves and others. Yet we need to examine each thread and see if it still holds true for us. To give an extreme example: It not being safe to cross the street unless you are holding the hand of an adult no longer applies when we are no longer children. Which other of our beliefs no longer apply?
Our focus for today: I take the time to question my thinking and consciously change my beliefs.
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About the Author
Carla van Raay migrated to Australia in 1950 from the Netherlands. She was a Catholic nun until age 31; left and became a sex worker: both life choices based on early sexual abuse. Her memoir God’s Callgirl became a best seller in several countries.
Carla has resided in Western Australia since 1980 as teacher, author and spiritual mentor. She is a mother and grandmother.
