Belief Is Allowance, Not Cause

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Belief is allowance, not cause — allow your­self to believe and it will be.

Our beliefs are powerful, but do they give the power? A lot of skep­tics feel that any solu­tion in which they don’t under­stand how it works, must work on placebo. Given that placebo is actu­ally the most successful cure in the world, one can, with any shred of logic, see the power of belief. I feel the tremen­dous resis­tance towards anything that requires believing in it to work from hard­core skep­tics, and while I applaud their efforts in finding truth and fact in a sea of scam, their angst and rejec­tion against anything that doesn’t match their comfort­able para­digm shows in their resistance.

It’s in this resis­tance that I find failure. I’ve had an idea that while some placebo may just be belief (which is powerful in itself), that believing isn’t neces­sarily what gives a tool, tech­nique, pill, or cure its power — it simply allows it to work. If your beliefs are powerful enough to make a sugar pill cure your cancer, they’re strong enough to prevent a cure for cancer from working for you (even due to you not wanting to take it). Make sense?

Let me put it another way. Belief is like a dam, and the river is the effec­tive­ness or ability to work of any certain thing. If you have no belief either way, the dam isn’t even built and the river can flow freely through just as neutral as possible, giving life to the whole valley. If you have a dam built and it’s open, the river can flow much more purposely towards where you want it — and even generate elec­tricity! If you have a dam built and it’s closed, shut­ting off water to the rest of the valley, the river isn’t going to flow and the valley will be all dried up and dead. Just because there’s a damn built doesn’t mean the river is inher­ently flawed and doesn’t have the ability to flow, it just means something’s preventing it from flowing how it normally might.

So why wouldn’t you want as many possible rivers of possi­bility flowing into your valley? Why would you want to choose to limit your­self before even trying the waters? The belief of some­thing being false or not effec­tive before even giving it a go may hinder its ability to work easily.

But! Some might say, the belief that it will work might influ­ence the results favor­ably as well.

…and that’s a bad thing, how? If you had the ability to make things work better just by thinking they will, why wouldn’t you want to? The world isn’t a labo­ra­tory where double blind tests can prove anything absolute, so stop trying.

If some­thing works for at least 1 person, than it does have the ability to work. They are allowing some­thing that works, to work for them. Somebody who believes some concept is stupid nonsense and rejects it, is resisting some­thing that works from entering their life. It’s not the belief of the idea that gives it some magical power — it simply allows what­ever that is to enter and influ­ence their reality or not.

So simply put, my little theory is that there are some things that simply are true and work regard­less if you believe in them or not, but by believing in them you allow that into your reality with ease, and by rejecting you create resis­tance against that, preventing it from working for you easily.

One of these would be the Law of Attraction. It appears to me this is a real law that affects everyone, regard­less of their belief in it. It’s some­thing that doesn’t need belief in order to “work”… but those that believe in it and under­stand how it works and follow some simple prin­ci­ples, see some amazing results with ease. Their belief isn’t what made it all start “working” magi­cally; it simply allowed what was there to flow without resis­tance. It works just as “well” for those that fight against it, but obvi­ously nowhere near to their advan­tage as it could be.

You can believe that gravity isn’t real, and fight it all you want trying to fly by flap­ping your arms, but you’ll still fall and crash. Or you can accept it is, stop resisting, and work within its laws, to do some­thing magical — like create an airplane that works with gravity that allows you to fly. Or that the Earth is round and not flat. Or the million other things once rejected and now accepted as common sense. There are some wild, crazy things out in our universe that affects us and we can believe or not believe …but that doesn’t mean we’re exempt from their laws and effects. When we can work with, instead of rejecting simply because it’s fringe and we don’t under­stand how or why, we can begin to see incred­ible results that are impos­sible whilst main­taining resistance.

Belief is more about the art of allowing and the art of flow, than it is in the art of granting magical abil­i­ties to unmu­sical things. So start believing in posi­tive and empow­ering things, you might just live an unre­al­istic life that’s full of happi­ness and joy that few can believe is possible. Hell, the worst thing that can happen is nothing if it’s just a placebo, right?