It is if you believe it. And it isn’t if you don’t.
Notice your beliefs. Then notice the beliefs beneath your beliefs. The ones you don’t often think about. The quiet ones. The inherited ones. The conditioned ones. The ones that have been running in the background for so long they simply feel like truth.
Notice how your beliefs create your experience of the world. If we’re not consciously choosing them, they are often choosing for us. Our brain is doing exactly what it was designed to do. It learns. It notices patterns. It predicts. It protects. It remembers. It builds pathways from repetition and experience. That isn’t a flaw. It’s one of the greatest gifts of being human.
Conditioning is not the enemy. In many ways, it’s one of our greatest teachers. Every experience you’ve ever had has taught your brain something. Some of those lessons have opened your heart. Some have protected it. Some have expanded your life. Some have made your world smaller. None of that is wrong. It’s simply information gathered through a lifetime of living.
Your parents conditioned you. Your family conditioned you. Your teachers, your culture, your friends, your successes, your disappointments, your relationships, and the stories you told yourself about each of them have all played a part in shaping the beliefs you carry today. Every experience has left an imprint, quietly answering questions like: Who am I? Can I trust? Am I enough? Is the world safe? What is possible for me?
The question isn’t whether you’ve been conditioned. Of course you have. We all have. The question is whether the beliefs you’ve learned are still creating the life you want to live, or whether your life has outgrown some of the beliefs that once served you.
This is where neuroscience becomes so hopeful. Your brain is not fixed. It is continually changing. Through neuroplasticity, your brain forms new neural pathways throughout your life. Every time you become aware of an old pattern instead of automatically living from it, something begins to shift. Every time you choose a new perspective, a new response, or a new way of showing up, you strengthen a different pathway. With repetition, what once felt unfamiliar can become your new way of being.
Awareness creates choice. Choice creates new experiences. New experiences create new pathways. Over time, those pathways become the beliefs you naturally live from.
So notice your beliefs. Notice the patterns they have created. Notice what they have given you, and notice what they may now be asking you to release. You don’t have to judge them. You don’t have to fight them. Simply bring them into the light.
Because the moment you can see a belief, you are no longer completely living inside of it.
From that place, your authentic self has room to speak. Your deepest wisdom has room to lead. And perhaps that is our greatest freedom. Not that we were never conditioned, but that we have the extraordinary capacity to become aware of our conditioning, honor what has served us, gently release what no longer does, and consciously choose the beliefs that create the life we are here to live.
Shajen(Shy-Anne) Joy Aziz, M.Ed., M.A.
Shajen Joy Aziz, M.Ed., M.A., is an award-winning international best-selling author, filmmaker and educator. She mentors businesses and professionals, emerging platforms, life-coaches, and those seeking personal growth. Her programs include workshops, seminars and webinars, intimate retreats and a holistic Life-Coaching certification course based on her award-winning book and film Discover the Gift.
Her book, Discover the Gift – It’s Why We’re Here, is published in 24 countries and 14 languages and her film, based on the book, is worldwide and in multiple lanuages–see Discover the Gift on Gaia TV. Shajen is proud to announce she is a contributing author in the upcoming books: Essential Wisdom-Timeless Roadmaps of Self-Discovery, Self-Actualization and Soul Purpose, as well as the fun and smart, Sexy, Fit & Fab Moms.
For over 25 years, her focus continues to be on emotions, beliefs, and systems and their impact on an individuals’ ability to thrive personally, professionally, psychologically, and spiritually. She owes her thorough understanding of humans and how to improve systems to her twenty years of experience as a school administrator, school Counselor, and Special Educator. Her groundwork in the field of education and mental health has paved the way for her to become a leader within the transformational and peace-building communities. In a very short time, her global life-coaching certification coursework and programs have amassed a dedicated community of Ambassadors, Coaches, and Trainers from around the globe.
Featured in many networks such as The Huffington Post, ABC, NBC, CNN, Spirit and Destiny Magazine, The Shift Network, Examiner.com, Catalyst, Spiritual Networks, Life Connection and Vision Magazine, amongst numerous others stateside and abroad. A founding member of the Southern California Association of Transformational Leaders (Assoc. of Transformational Leaders) and The Women’s Speakers Assoc., Shajen is an active trailblazer for women, children, and education.
Shajen has been a guest faculty member of The Shift Network and has been featured alongside Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Desmond Tutu, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Eckhart Tolle, to name a few. A leading expert in self-actualization and personal development, Shajen has had the pleasure of sharing the speaking stage with other influential New Thought Leaders and colleagues such as Jack Canfield, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Dr. Barbara De Angelis, Sir Ken Robinson, Dr. Sue Morter, Mary Morrissey, David Wolfe, and many others.
Her recognitions include and are not limited to 2017 and 2014 Woman of Outstanding Leadership from the International Women’s Leadership Assoc., In 2012 Shajen received the Peace and Creativity Award presented by Congresswoman Karen Bass and the 2011 & 2012 Woman of the Year Award from the National Association of Professional Women. These recognitions are for her dedication and excellence in her field of education. Honored with the Global Humanitarian Award, presented by Dr. Barbara De Angelis and Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith at the Agape International Spiritual Center, Shajen Joy Aziz is facilitating the healing of others one person, one family, one community at a time.
Shajen@discoverthegift.com
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