Ray Bradbury Knows About Believing and Feeling

In Ray Bradbury's 1953 book Fahrenheit 451 he writes:

"Yes, I believe that, if there's nothing else I believe. It saved itself up to happen. I could feel it for a long time, I was saving something up, I went around doing one thing and feeling another...."

Do you believe one thing, but feel another way about that belief?

Think about what you believe in and then think about how you feel.

You may surprise yourself.

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Roman Polanski was a Believer

Christopher Sandford writes in his book Polanski: A Biography that Roman Polanski "... had a clear and unshakable belief in his place at the top of the directors' league table, a boast that by and large proved more justifiable as time went on." Do you think that Polanski would have been a successful director, earning an Oscar for directing The Pianists, if he didn't believe that he was a great director?

In a 1986 interview with the journalist Pierre-Andre Boutang Polanski said, "I pep myself up by telling myself I'm the greatest, the most talented, a genus. When I'm working on a film, I truly believe it's going to be a success..."

Do you believe that what you are doing in life will be successful?

Is there something that you do to pep yourself up so that you do believe in yourself?

Do you believe that the pep is vital to your success?

Where does the feeling of being successful fit in your life?

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Do You Believe in Your Diet?

Debra Waterhouse author of "Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell" writes of the OFF Plan that she created. In Chapter Four, Waterhouse states that you must prepare yourself psychologically for the OFF Plan and the the first  step in preparing yourself is "You must believe in it."

Why would someone every contemplate trying something that they didn't believe would work?

Believing is what makes all the difference in the world!

Would you try a diet if you didn't believe that it would work?

Would you try anything if you didn't believe in a positive outcome?

Think about 2 things that you do everything and expect to get some benefit from them. Do you truly  believe that what you are doing will work? Or, are you doing it because you feel that you should or possibly someone told you that you should, and you really don't believe in what you are doing?

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Katharine Hepburn Believed

In her autobiography "Me", Katharine Hepburn writes that she believes "You've got to dream up everything. I believe in miracles.  Hepburn believed that the power of our spirits to create is what separates us from animals.

Do you believe you can dream to create?

Do you believe your spirit has power?  If so, how do you believe you should use that power?

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Bethenny Frankel Knows the Power of One’s Beliefs

In Bethenny Frankel’s book, A Place of Yes - 10 Rules for Getting EverythingYou Want Out of Life, she states that her business evolved directly out of her own personal beliefs.  Bethenny encourages us to “Believe in what you believe in, and then make it your business to do it well.”

Bethenny tells of her belief in fate when she says, “… the failure of BethennyBakes really was a success…. in the end.”

Bethenny tells about having a feeling and how “Sometimes you just feel it, you just know.”

Learn how Bethenny has learned to pay attention to the feeling because it always signals something big. 

It’s pretty clear that Bethenny Frankel knows and applies the Science of Believing and Feeling.

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Increasing Your Luck

Do you believe that your luck will be increased by carrying lucky charms, touching wood and avoiding the number thirteen?

The belief is within you, not the lucky charm.

Think about where these beliefs come from.  Are they something you were told as a child?

Is it a belief that has been passed down from generation to generation, like a family heirloom?

Or do you have a personal experience of your luck increasing with a lucky charm and now you have made it your belief.

Remember, if it's not something you truly believe in, you can let it go and create a new belief regarding luck.

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Perfectionism

Are you the kind of person who feels you have to do everything perfectly?

Do you believe you are the only person who knows how to do this one thing exactly right?

Do you believe you must place unrealistic demands on yourself and others by using words such as "must', "need" and "have to"?

If you answer "yes" to the above, then think about this, wouldn't it be easier to change that belief?

Wouldn't there be a lot less stress if you changed your belief about perfection to something like, "A bruised banana is a perfectly bruised banana"?

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Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) Believed in Himself

David Remnick writes in his book, King of the World, "From the moment Clay won that first fight, he would come home in the evening and tell his parents how he was going to become Champion of the world, ...).

Before he won the Olympics he told everyone that he was going to win.

Ali was also known for predicting how many rounds a fight would go for and that he would win.

Ali really believed he would win and he did.

Do you believe in yourself above all else?

If not why?

What would have to happen for you to believe in yourself?

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Did You Make any New Year's Resolution(s)?

If you made New Year's resolution(s) then I would like you to ask yourself a few questions:

Do you really feel that it's necessary for you to make New Year's resolution(s)?

How important do you believe or feel that it is to make New Year's resolutions(s)?

Do you believe that my making New Year's resolution(s) you will be more likely to meet your goals?

Do you believe or feel that making New Year's resolution(s) is something that is expected of you?

How would you feel if you never made a New Year's resolution(s)?

With Love & Light ~