Uncovering the Life of Your Dreams

21

I was back in class, and everyone was standing.

“Remember to stay close together and keep connected with a buddy. Pair up now.” The class scattered around the room to find a partner. Elyse walked directly to me.

“How about you and me?”

“Sure, Elyse. That would be nice.”

“You know how it's done, everyone. Hold each other's hands.” The teacher waited until all pairs were connected. “Okay, class. Scott needs some new ideas to rework his belief system. We will help him, just as we did with each of you.”

The teacher snapped his fingers, and we were in deep space, all of us, just floating around holding hands. There were bright stars everywhere. It was truly a spectacle to behold. It was the blue-haired boy who began my orientation.

“A belief system is something either you create or, if you do not, is created for you. It is influenced by every experience you have had, but you can change it in an instant. Going back to the computer analogy, your beliefs create the program that runs on your operating system. That program is your life. In order to re-create that program, you can simply choose a new program, anything you would like, one small rewrite at a time.”

Elyse took over. “Anything at all. With one stipulation. If you want that belief system to work for you and bring you happiness, all of your beliefs will have to be checked and measured against one simple principle. This principle needs to be first, above all others. It needs to be a principle that is associated with a high ...