SUCCESS! Great word, fabulous idea. Seeing the word in print should spur positive feelings, should it not?
I saw a picture the other day. A beach, with “success” scratched in the sand near the surf’s edge. A friend shared this on Facebook, as an inspirational thing. No, it isn’t! I delve daily into the world of unconscious communications. I find and study (and change when useful) what is being communicated under the surface, which absolutely does affect us. A facet of my job is that I have trained myself to look for and listen in particular for “limiting beliefs,” ideas which stop us from success.
This picture has a very limiting belief embedded within. It’s an unconscous communication, and it’s quite negative.
Imagine this picture. The tide is out, and the sand is fairly dry but still moist. What’s about to happen? Soon, that word will be washed away, vanish, be obliterated. You know it’s going to happen, it’s a function of the location of the word and the ephemeral manner in which it is written in the sand and the inevitability of the tide. Messages in the sand do not remain. They go away.
“Success does not last.”
NOT a message I like for my unconscious mind!
I’d rather believe success is something we control and keep for as long as we want it. Not subject to the whims of nature. I’d rather have a message of empowerment (I create success) rather than disempowerment (you’re going to lose it soon and there’s nothing you can do).
Beliefs are not just ideas. They are movement operators. They create action and activity in us. Or they stop us. This picture is a stopper! Something to muse upon!
Warm Regards,
Connie