Discover New Beliefs

The drive from Zion National Park to Bryce Canyon in Utah was a short one.

I had traveled the same route several times. At a certain pass, no matter how sunny the day and cloudless the sky, it was raining there every time. Although it was hard to see, a small dark cloud seemed to hang over this one particular place, this one area of the road, all the time.It may be like that in a particular area of our lives. A certain belief seems almost stuck to us, stuck to one area of our lives, and no matter how sunny the rest of the drive, it’s raining there all the time. What cloud is hanging over you? Could it be one you’re helping to create?Some beliefs—My choices are wrong, I make had decisions, I’m wrong—can create a dark heaviness that hangs over us like a cloud. These beliefs may be so subtle we don’t notice them. What we do notice is a lingering pain or anxiety, a cloud that seems to follow us around. What we don’t see is that we’re helping create and maintain our own cloud with these beliefs.The lesson may not be to make better decisions or be a better person. The lesson may be much simpler: change your beliefs. Make some new decisions.Let yourself discover some new, better, sunnier beliefs about yourself and your life.

Allow yourself to believe that the decisions you make are fine.Who you are is okay.You always have been.

From the desk of Melody BeattieOriginally posted March 28, 2015