{"id":17,"date":"2016-08-05T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinkbelievemanifest\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-08-05T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:05:15","slug":"just-gotta-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinkbelievemanifest\/2016\/08\/just-gotta-believe.html","title":{"rendered":"You Just Gotta Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

You just gotta believe!<\/p>\n

Once you believe, everything changes.<\/p>\n

Believing is a critical ingredient to manifesting.<\/p>\n

Without believing you can succeed or manifest what you really want, you won\u2019t succeed.<\/p>\n

When you believe you raise your vibration, and you attract more positive situations into your life.\u00a0When you believe you can succeed and achieve your goals, you will.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately most people don’t believe they can succeed and achieve their goals and that’s mainly because no one ever told you how to believe – or how to create the kind of beliefs that guarantee your success.<\/p>\n

Instead, you may have been discouraged, been told that what you want is too difficult, or you\u2019re not smart enough or you\u2019re not lucky.<\/p>\n

Now these beliefs are on your subconscious and they hold you back and prevent you from manifesting what you really desire.<\/p>\n

You may want to succeed, you may want to make more money, you may want to meet the right person, you may want to have better health, you may want to grow your business, you may want to get a better job, but you’ll never achieve any of your goals unless you believe you can.<\/p>\n

What you want and what you believe are 2 separate things, and if you\u2019re beliefs aren\u2019t aligned with what you want, you\u2019ll never succeed.<\/p>\n

So if you want to make more money but just can\u2019t seem to get ahead then you likely have a number of limiting or negative beliefs about money which are holding you back. These and similar negative beliefs need to be removed and replaced with beliefs that allow you to succeed and manifest what you desire.<\/p>\n

Your beliefs are what your subconscious mind follows. It creates your life based on what you believe and think.<\/p>\n

The longer you hold on to negative beliefs, the more difficult your life will become.<\/p>\n

So you need to remove and replace those negative beliefs pronto. \u00a0If you have too many negative or limiting beliefs your subconscious mind will keep creating more and more negative situations.<\/p>\n

Changing Beliefs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s how you can begin removing those negative beliefs today.<\/p>\n

Think about what you want and then write down any thoughts that come up when you think about getting what you want.<\/p>\n

For example: Let’s say you want to make more money. When you think about making more money you might get the following thoughts:<\/p>\n