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A Spiritually Enlightening Online Magazine. March's Theme: "Action and Inaction"
Volume 7 Issue 3 ISSN# 1708-3265

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 		Taking Action
by Pam Dibbern

I know the only way for me to move forward is to take action. So why don't I always take action?

A big reason is fear. What if I fail? What if I succeed? What if I'm rejected? What if people don't like me? What if my life changes? What if my life doesn't change?

In Friendship With God, Neale Donald Walsh writes, "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." So how do I get past these fears and move out of my comfort zone? Where did these fears come from anyway?

Most of the fears are based on limiting beliefs. I'm not worthy. I don't deserve good. I don't deserve money. I don't deserve happiness. I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough. Where did I get these beliefs? Why are they so different from the things I want in my life? Why do they have so much control in my life?

Many of these beliefs have been programmed into our subconscious minds based on the beliefs of our parents. When we are not conscious of the beliefs, they can cause us to self sabotage without understanding why.

Researchers have found that the brains of very young children operate in low frequency delta and theta waves. Bruce Lipton, in Biology of Belief, writes, "Hypnotherapists drop their patients' brain activity into delta and theta because these low frequency brain waves put them into a more suggestible, programmable state. This gives us an important clue as to how children, whose brains are mostly operating at these same frequencies between birth and six years of age, can download the incredible volume of information they need to thrive in their environment. As a result, their parent's behaviour and beliefs become their own." He goes on to say, "the fundamental behaviours, beliefs, and attitudes we observe in our parents become hard-wired as synaptic pathways in our subconscious minds. Once programmed into the subconscious mind, they control our biology for the rest of our lives… unless we can figure out a way to reprogram them." These programs downloaded into our subconscious mind will continue to replay until we consciously choose to edit the programming to correlate with our own intentions.

A good illustration of how strong our beliefs can be is a study done by Baylor School of Medicine that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Bruce Mosely divided patients with arthritic knees into three groups to determine which part of the knee surgery was most effective. The surgery he did consisted of two parts.

The first group got one part of the surgery. The second group got the second part of the surgery. In the third group, he made the incisions and acted as if he had done the surgery, but did not really do any surgery. The patients who believed they had the surgery, but had no surgery, improved just as much as both the groups who had surgery. Their belief that they had undergone surgery to improve their arthritic knees was so strong that they improved just as much as if they had actually had the surgery!

Even though our limiting beliefs are strong, it is possible to release them with techniques such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), BodyTalk, The Sedona Method, The Work by Byron Katie, Ho'oponopono, Reiki, meditation, chanting, visualization, journaling, and other practices.

However, even after these practices, there are still fears which come up as I get to the edge of my comfort zone. Sometimes I just have to take action in spite of the fear.

Jack Canfield states in The Success Principles, "I have found that the one thing that seems to separate winners from losers more than anything else is that winners take action."

I believe the key to moving forward consciously is to take inspired action, not just any action. I have found that it is more important to choose which actions to take based on where I want to go, not on where I have been. When things start getting tough, it is very tempting to go back to what I know and mindlessly do the same things over and over.

Spiritual practices, time in nature, writing, and just "being" are some ways to get in touch with better actions to take. I have also found it is also important to be around supportive people, take care of my health, and spend time learning.

Bob Proctor states, "We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams."

I choose to realize my wildest dreams!


Pam has been a special ed teacher, home-schooled her daughter, and worked in various other jobs. After some life-changing events, she is learning to listen to her inner wisdom and make changes in her life to align with her Divine Self.

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