PART I: AWAKEN

1: The Power of Belief - An extract from the NEW "Life Beyond Limits!" expected for release in October 2008

Infinity Belief® - Your beliefs can kill you

as easily as they breathe life into your dreams.

The hourglass is about to turn, it is about to be repositioned right side up. It is time to wake up from the deep sleep, the two-thousand year slumber that has clouded the multitudes of this planet and entranced them into believing that they are less and limited. Incarcerated by fear, judgement, and ridicule, the people of this planet have finally rediscovered the ancient the keys that unlock the door of unlimited potential. There is no one master key, there are a series of steps that you must take and the first step is to wake up from the illusion of limitation.

It is time to become fully conscious, to snap out of the haze of the busyness, to get beyond the stress and the pain that we have induced and endured for so long. You are waking up my friend and you know this, you have been sensing this for a while now. As your consciousness grows, you will look around to see a new world emerging. You will begin to hear the insights coming from not only the spiritual leaders of the planet, but also from the least likely sources; your friends, your family, the children and even strangers who have observed your awakening.

You may have already felt the shift in the course of your life, the altering planet, and the growing collective consciousness. You can call this a stirring, an intuition or a knowing that something must change for you and you may experience this as stress. It simply means that two opposing forces are working against each other and the tension in the middle is stress; an indicator that a decision point is imminent. Oh, you can ignore it and hope that it will go away and it will from time to time, you know it will return, it always does in some form. You can suppress it with alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, overwork, and over indulging in artificial food. Deny it if you must, but know that it will surface in a greater form and will refuse to be ignored. It is time to awaken and to commence your training, to live the life that you were destined to live, a life without limits. The journey of insights is sometimes beyond the logical and into the seemingly improbable. It is to expand you and not to be confused with the lessening process, but the lessoning in how to live your Life Beyond Limits!

From the moment you are born, you commence the process of creating your beliefs and setting most of them in stone. Can you remember what it was like when you were a child? How far back can you recall? How far back do you wish to recall?

Life for most is a series of first experiences, your first puppy, your first day at school, your first bike, your first kiss. Life was full of surprises and there was so much looking forward. I would like you to become a child in wonderment as you read this, because in this state of wonderment, you will gain so much more. It is time to become conscious and to get excited again.

Would it be helpful to know how to create a state so that you could bring it about easily? Your feelings are state dependent, so bringing about a specific state will alter how you feel and therefore determine your thought patterns. Consider your thoughts when you’re happy as opposed to when you are sad. Do you know what it feels like to be totally confident, to be wealthy and secure? What does it feel like to be totally loved and be on purpose in life? To gain the state of love is as simple as accessing a memory and intensifying the memory to recreate it, to relive it. You may recall your first love or the day you first fell in love with your partner? Can you imagine what it may have been like after being born, nestled in your mother’s loving arms and wrapped in a cosy, warm blanket as you left the hospital? Recall a specific time in your life when you were totally loved, float down into your body and relive the event through your own eyes. See what you think you may have seen at that time, imagine hearing what you heard, and allow yourself to imagine what it would feel like to feel the feelings again of being totally loved. And isn’t it true that if you can imagine being totally loved, you can feel love? Could it be that your thoughts are responsible for such feelings? So if you choose to feel loved, all you have to do is imagine it and allow the related thoughts to develop the pictures and sounds in your mind to create the feelings of love. This is the first insight into Infinity Belief® and later we will journey deeper to understand the relationship between thoughts and feelings and how these greatly impact your life.

It is now time to discover the secrets to unlocking your full potential to live the life of your choosing. It is time to become healthy and vigorous and grow your ability to specifically and consciously attract money into your life with ease and grace so you can help you to help others around you. See your life transform as you hear the words from these pages unlock previous barriers to wealth, the words of adulation from your friends and colleagues causing you to feel the feelings of self-satisfaction and wealth rise up into your body as you hear, see and feel your new and wonderful life unfold. It is now time to awaken from a deep, deep sleep.

After awaking each morning, do you wonder what the day will bring, what events may unfold? Do you dread the moment you wake into supposed consciousness, fearing the day’s outcomes before they have eventuated? The truth is that you have nothing to dread, you have far more control over your life than you may realise and my purpose in telling you this is to commence the process of awakening you. While at first it may be difficult for you to believe that you can create the life of your choosing, the purpose of this book is to show you how to regain control of your life and achieve inner-peace; this is what most call enlightenment and I am choosing to call success. In order to classify success, let’s suppose that success is living your ideal life, whatever that may be. So each time I refer to success, you’ll know what I am talking about.

I would like you to read the next sentence slowly and carefully to understand its message. Success begins the very moment that you believe it is possible and faithfully commit to the actions that move you forward. Your state is important. For success to occur, it is vital that you first see it in your mind even before you accomplish anything in your reality. Success must be your state of mind first, only then shall it manifest. If you cannot picture, hear or feel success in your mind, you cannot have it.

The second and most vital insight in gaining Infinity Belief®, is to open your mind to the possibility that more is possible. The only way you can expand your awareness and allow anything new to enter your consciousness is by opening your mind. So how do you do this? Start the process by asking yourself: what would I choose to do or who would I choose to be if more is possible? It’s the enormity of choice in this question that stops most in their tracks, so to overcome this, just choose anything and try it on, see how you feel about it. Dare to dream. What would your life be like as an artist, an architect, a world-class musician, an author, a teacher or lecturer, choose anything on for size. Resist the logical temptation to work out what is possible and impossible; simply suspend judgment as you read this book. In this state of mind the content will be much more useful to you. While it may be challenging to imagine that anything more than what you currently understand is possible, I’m sure you will agree that there is more to life than you currently understand. To remain open to the concept that more is possible allows for the prospect of more to occur. Close your mind and nothing more than you have experienced to date can transpire. It is time to use one of your greatest gifts – your imagination. You know that the mind is certainly powerful, but to what degree?

In Cleveland, USA a fatal experiment was conducted involving a prisoner. The experiment designed to compare the strength of the imagination, against the strength of will and intellect, tested the prisoner beyond his previous limitations. The event was described in Martin Kojc’s book, The Manual of Life. After eating his last meal and summoned from death row, the prisoner’s time was up. Leaving his cell for the last time and upon entering the execution chamber he was directed to sit upon a chair. Strapped to the chair, he was blindfolded and told that his execution was to be relatively painless. A small incision was about to be made to a vein in his neck and he would slowly but surely bleed to death. The prisoner prepared his mind for his inevitable passing. His white-knuckled hands gripped the chair’s armrests as he awaited his end. Soon he felt a slight but sharp pain at his neck. The sound of his blood streaming from the cut in his neck was not unlike the sound of a cow’s teat squirting its milk into a pale. The sound horrified him into a cold shiver and soon, he felt his life flow from his veins and died.

The prisoner died from a brutal experiment, amounting from no more than a bloodless scratch to his neck. Below him, was a metal bucket into which the warders trickled water through a tube, to mimic the sound of blood. Prior to his execution, the prisoner was in good health. It seems he died by believing that the pain he felt to his neck was an incision to an artery, and convinced that the sound he heard was his blood streaming from his neck. He believed what he heard and I would also suggest he also believed what he saw in his mind; a fading picture of his life. Could it be that he died by believing that his life-blood was leaving his body? Can beliefs be that powerful? Imagine committing this degree of belief to your life! Surgeons among many highly educated professionals appreciate the power of belief. Most surgeons are reluctant to operate on anyone who is convinced that they will die during the surgery.

Make no mistake; your beliefs hold within them an awesome power. Your beliefs can kill you as easily as they can breathe life into your dreams. Use your imagination, control your thoughts and you will determine the course of your life. Your imagination is the lens that you choose to look through; it colours or dulls your life. Sharpen your lens and you focus your life! Keep imagining what you choose to believe in your mind, until you can no longer completely believe it is impossible. This is just one way to install new empowering beliefs into your unconscious. Imagination is certainly more powerful than intellect and logic; in fact, imagination is sometimes the only tool we have to pull us out of a rut.

As a child, for some the bogey man existed in the darkness and seemed to magically disappear the moment you found courage over darkness or for those who resorted to turn on the light. Beliefs are a feeling of certainty about something being real; they of course are not necessarily real.

As a trainer and a speaker, I have worked with thousands of people and it seems that no matter where in the world or how intelligent someone may appear, I am continually astounded as to how we will defend our beliefs, even though they deceive us or disempower us. No matter what age, where they come from, how intelligent or unintelligent someone may be, it seems that almost everyone at some level have limiting beliefs that stop them from achieving their dreams and desires. It is though the belief plays a convenient role in blinding the individual from their potential. This is my why. If there is one thing I choose to do in this lifetime, is open the eyes of the people of this planet to see a world without limits. There are solutions to all possibilities all around us, however to see them we must first open our minds, our eyes, our souls and mostly our hearts to experience Life Beyond Limits.

Just as the medieval clerics who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope were afraid to abandon themselves to the power of a new myth. We so often attempt to reason out of existence the sights and experiences that are beyond our understanding. I used to find myself becoming frustrated by the blinkered rejection of the realm of potentiality. How could anyone resist the benefits of a deeper understanding of life? Until I realised that the less aware or conscious a person chose to be, the more they are reliant upon their instinctive patterning, their unconscious programming. For some, it is easier to live in ignorant bliss. I had to then alter my belief and decide to accept all people, the ignorant included, and this dissolved my frustration. While I am passionate about assisting global consciousness, I must also accept that not everyone is ready to live a Life Beyond Limits. Of course, you my friend are an exception.

Like the prisoner, if you can fool your conscious mind into believing that something is possible, that something moves through conscious thought and into your unconscious and your very cells will alter to help you to make it happen. I’m sure you have heard a friend talk about a tickle in their throat and before long they exclaimed that they are getting a cold. Soon enough the cold takes hold. Or someone who trips and says that they are clumsy. They then reveal their clumsiness again and again and again. What drives a tightrope walker to demonstrate amazing balance and a billionaire the courage to build enormous wealth? A belief that more is possible is the driver behind success just as a belief that nothing more than what we know exists ensures a stagnant life.

Like a computer that deals in 0’s and 1’s the conscious mind seeks a yes or a no from the unconscious (your mind’s library) before attempting anything new. A yes moves the body forward, while a no stops the body in its tracks. The unconscious mind is responsible for 90 percent of your functioning while the conscious mind is responsible for the rest. It makes sense why we unconsciously resist change or challenge unless we consciously focus our efforts. John Davidson writes in The Secret of the Creative Vacuum – Man and the Energy Dance, “…a concentrated mind is able to control physical matter and manipulate the laws of nature. This is how the miracles associated with yogis and holy men are performed. It is also the means by which paranormal phenomena take place. All spiritual practices entail concentration of the mind, whether it is prayer, meditation, telling of beads or some other technique.”

As you read Life Beyond Limits I will help you to plant success data into your unconscious. It is a specific and purposeful process not unlike removing the shell of an oyster to reveal the pearl, in this case the pearls of wisdom and insight. Do not be surprised as you read Life Beyond Limits when you begin experiencing a little magic in your life or observe synchronistic happenings taking place. This practice will at first appear to miraculously create the outcomes you desire; outcomes that you have pre-determined by altering your thoughts. But this is no more a miracle than the miracle of life itself; it is just possible. Your beliefs are a culmination of your predominant thoughts. If you believe you can do a particular thing, you will consciously, and often unconsciously, act to achieve it. Believe you can’t learn French and c’est la vie, you will ensure won’t try. Believe success is inevitable and you will make it happen. Here you begin to realise that beliefs are not necessarily real, just either convenient or inconvenient. An inconvenient belief is that you can’t remember names and it will limit your social interaction, a convenient belief is that you will soon learn how.

Some of my greatest insights were learned and practiced in sales. It taught me how to use these insights at the coalface. Moments before my sales presentations, I connected to Infinity Belief®. I allowed an extra 10 minutes before each meeting. I sat quietly in my mind and imagined my desired outcome. Mentally I created conversations, I heard the content of the meeting that was about to take place, hearing the conversation moving toward our mutual success. At the same time, I visualised it until I could feel the elation from a positive meeting, I created a success state. Seeing is believing and feeling is experiencing. If something feels real, your unconscious mind will believe it is real. When I began to feel what I imagined, I felt a sense of calm, a sense of success. I then knew I was ready for my meeting. My unconscious was programmed and I was connected to Infinity Belief®. During my presentations, I felt relaxed, successful and confident. Try it for yourself. Imagine a desirable outcome prior to the outcome and notice what happens to you along the way.

Using Infinity Belief® in sales created results that seemed unbelievable. My peers could not believe my luck, but luck was not responsible. Yes, there was a time that I doubted the source of my success and the day I put it down to luck, my success ceased. No matter how long or hard I worked, my success vanished. I scheduled more meetings, made more telephone calls, worked harder without success. The moment I practiced Infinity Belief®, my success resumed. I knew then that I was able to turn it on and off like a tap and you will too, with practise. You can change your thoughts as quickly as you can turn on a tap and you can change your success just as easily. Of course, there is sometimes a little time involved. That is of course if you believe in time.

The question I’d like to ask you now is this. If you end up living the life of your dreams, when did the dream start? Did it start when you realised your dream or did it start the moment you began believing in your dream? Or did it start the moment you believed in yourself?

It is important at this early stage that you understand that your beliefs determine your future. So what is a belief? A belief is not a notion or a thought, or an idea; it is a 100% agreement that something is true for you. If you believe that something will occur, you will ensure it does, because you also like being right. Anything less than belief is only partial commitment and is like driving a car with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake.

Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths

1. Success begins the very moment that you believe success is possible and commit to moving forward.

2. Your beliefs determine your thoughts and the course of your life.

3. Changing your beliefs alters thoughts that enter your unconscious.

4. Your conscious mind seeks information from your unconscious (your mind’s library) to determine your next action.

5. Your unconscious decisions are in accord with your values and beliefs.

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