Thanks for the help RTW, I followed the links and they're a big help.
I've kinda come to the conclusion that beliefs are the real sticking point.
To illustrate my point: I find a lot of money lying in the street. I don't mean pennies but £200 , £75, £20 notes etc. In one week alone a few years back I found £40 on the high street, £200 in a bundle in a patch of mud in the middle of nowhere, a £5 note in a frozen puddle in a side street.
When I first read Anthony Robbins I 'realized' that this was my 'recticular activating system' ie my subconscious mind notices money that other people walk past, and sometimes on some level I must know where money is even when it's outside the range of my eyesight.. freaky, but so far so good..at least there's a sort of scientific explanation.
Then when I read The Secret I started thinking that it was to do with that....except I don't actually ever think about finding money..I just find it!
Eventually I've come to the conclusion that it is about core (unquestioned) beliefs.. In other words it's a part of my identity. If people ever talk about finding money I just simply say : "Oh yeah, I find money all the time" and because lots of my friends have witnessed me do that, it's reinforced my identity as someone who finds money easily.
I think the biggest obstacle is that one of the most unquestioned beliefs people hold is one they have assumed since they were old enough to think about such things: ie, "I am born into the world and there is Me, and everything else is Not Me. Cause and Effect makes the world go round, but although there may be a cause for everything it's so complex that many things seem random. Therefore things may happen to me that I can't predict, therefore I need to be as prepared as possible for anything (Fear based) and don't take un-necessary risks." etc...
It's like the old film images of a person walking through a desert..."water, water..water.." It obsorbs his thoughts totally. (And I think also that instinctively we feel we can manifest something if we really want it enough. Same as unreligious people will pray when in dire distress and need. It's an instinct!) But is he thinking about water, or the lack of water? Is he manifesting the experience of dying of thirst? Will his beliefs be the thing that makes the difference?
I intend to try some of the techniques taken from those links specifically affirmations and to try to adopt my new beliefs as part of my identity.
I liked what you said about bringing disempowering beliefs to light. I think that's true. It's just that I clearly have some incongruencies in my identity and I really can't see what they are.
I was toying with the idea of an over-riding core belief which would obviate the need to keep delving into my childhood to discover where these limiting beliefs come from. Something along the lines of : "I'm aware of some limiting beliefs which I've picked up along the way but I can let them go without formally identifying them"
Thanks for everyones helpful comments and advice.
DLH
