[jdiddy]

When trying to manifest a goal, the one thing that seems to get in the way more than any other is a contradicting thought, which usually comes from some underlying belief. For example, let's say you are terminally ill or are balding (I don't want to use money because it's so overused). If you are trying to manifest health, or hair, you will constantly run into the thoughts "I am dying" or "I am losing my hair". Those thoughts come from the underlying beliefs that terminal illness is irreversible or baldness is hereditary.

So in my mind there are two things you have to deal with: the thoughts, which are the symptoms of the underlying beliefs, and the beliefs themselves. Dealing with both of these would seem to be the key to successful manifestation.

So what I'm wondering is, what are the techniques that you use to deal with these opposing forces? To deal with the thoughts, I've seen people use things such as noting the thought and then dismissing it ("I am dying... next"), or issuing a contradicting thought to counteract it ("I am losing my hair... oops, that's not right, I have a healthy, thick head of hair"). Are there any other techniques that you've used to combat these negative thoughts?

And then there are the beliefs, which is where the thoughts come from, and where the real work needs to be done in my opinion. Destroying a negative belief is quite a bit more difficult because they usually come from some kind of experience in your life. You may believe that you are dying because you have seen other people die from your illness, and have never seen anyone recover from what you have. Or you may believe that you are balding because your genes make you prone to baldness.

The only way I can see to remove those limiting beliefs is to tear them apart to see what lies underneath of them. For example, I am dying because I have a terminal disease -> I have always been taught that terminal diseases kill people -> a terminal disease is what scientists have idenitifed as a disease that people can't recover from -> scientists know all there is to know about diseases. Once you've identified the actual root cause of the belief, you can work on destroying that. (Research people recovering from terminal diseases -> learn about instances where people have recovered without any rational explanation -> realize that scientists do not in fact know everything there is to know).

The only way that I can see to really destroy those limiting beliefs (stopping those contradicting thoughts as a result) is by unlearning what you have learned, questioning everything that you have ever been taught. By completely giving up any confidence you have that you or anyone else really knows how the world works, only at that point do you have a blank slate to work with.

Does anyone else have any techniques or input as to how to get rid of these counterproductive thoughts and beliefs?