Discovering Belief Management

By Elaine Rose Flanders

While delivering some questions to a coworker’s cubicle, I overheard her use the words “belief management.” I cannot tell you the exact sentence or how the phrase was used, I can only tell you that I was riveted to the spot when I heard those words.

I have long been a student of beliefs and belief systems. As a new-ager, I had completed my share of workshops that helped me form the words that I was a precious and worthwhile human being, contingent on affirmation on a daily basis. The best facilitator and the most interesting seminars had failed to help me maintain either the belief or the affirmation, or even the ability to maintain the daily repeating ritual.

I had the experience of watching myself move from a competent trainer for a large Southern California medical device company to an insecure victim over some incident of reprimand with a supervisor. It was like watching a bad horror movie, where instead of the lead character going from angel to demon, I went from competent to failure within seconds.
I knew that I was holding both of those beliefs and I also knew that I could move from one to the other. I just wasn’t sure how to do it consciously. I didn’t understand how one day I was living out of one belief and the next day I was living out of another, totally different.

So, you can imagine the excitement I was feeling when I heard the words, “belief management” right at the time I had some beliefs that definitely needed management.

I walked into my co-worker’s office and made eye contact, with an astounding kind of interest in my eyes, I am sure. While she continued to talk on the phone, she motioned me to take a seat and indicated by her expression that she would be with me in a moment. She was making arrangements to spend the weekend working on a troubling belief. I forgot the work in my hand, I forgot the questions I originally came to get answered and as soon as she hung up I began to flood my fellow employee with questions; I believed in synchronicity, and this certainly sounded like the answer to some serious requests I had for a next step. My friend explained to me about The Avatar Course. It was developed a number of years ago by Harry Palmer after some experiences he had in a floatation tank. I had recently read two books by John Cunningham Lilly, the inventor of the floatation tank or sensory deprivation tank, as it was called. Lilly was an avid researcher on how belief systems affect our lives, how they are formed, and what he learned after many years of tank experiments. Much of which I found difficult to follow. The one thing that I do recall from those books is that prior to Lilly’s experiments, science believed that an unstimulated mind would go to sleep without sensory input. Lilly found quite the opposite, as did Harry in his experience.

My having just read the books and then coming upon Avatar, that had some if its roots in the same area, was the type of delicious coincidence that borders on the magical. It creates one of those inspirations that can only be followed. I asked my coworker to tell me more about the course. She described the three sections and outlined the information. Again, I cannot recall exactly what she said. I just knew it was the beginning of something wonderful.

Shortly after this encounter I called an Avatar Master and began a journey of self discovery that was as rich as it was inspiring. It went beyond words. Most of it is beyond words, for it was all about the experience of what I believed and how those beliefs affected my life. It was about choosing which belief I wanted to experience and staying there as long as I wanted.

I spent my first weekend, the ReSurfacing workshop, discovering many of my long-held beliefs and how they created the victim and the victor. I read Harry Palmer’s book Living Deliberately, listened to tapes and watched a short video of testimonials from people who had completed the course. One special belief came out of that weekend, and it is a belief I hold today. Avatar is a tool that I want on my journey to enlightenment, and nothing will keep me from it. I deserve it.

Thank you, Star’s Edge, for helping another corner of planetary civilization to get a little lighter and brighter.

Right now you have the ability to learn “belief management” for yourself through the Resurfacing Workshop, which is the first part of The Avatar Course. There is joy in discovering “them thar’ beliefs” and gold in learning how to manage them. You deserve it.

Elaine Rose Flanders, Santa Barbara, California

 

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