Your Belief System
Dictates Your Life
J.M. Setlodi (Justice) is a hands-on
metaphysical student. He is a
meditator and author by day and
a reader by night. Justice started
meditating in 2005, with the aim of
reducing stress and living a more
joyous life. Little did he know that
this would lead to a spiritual journey
of discovery and creativity. Justice is
constantly working on his ability to
strengthen his connection to universal
knowledge. He is able to connect to
his higher self and retrieve information
that he uses for writing books and
online courses. To date, he has written
three books: How to Use Mind Power
to Lose Weight and Stay Young,
The Ultimate Guide to Manifesting,
and Believing Is Seeing, all of which
are available on Amazon.com. The
Ultimate Guide to Manifesting has just
recently been translated into Chinese
Mandarin and is available on Amazon.
com (China), as well as Douban and
JingDong. Justice also manages his
own blog, which is a good source of
information covering topics in the
metaphysical space. His aim is to
awaken and inspire every person he
interacts with.
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J.M. Setlodi
Abstract: A lot of us are brought up, in our families and
societies, buying into many different kinds of belief
­systems that have more to do with other people’s b ­ eliefs
than the ones that are fully aligned with who we are.
The unconscious beliefs that you bought into that are
limiting will always have some effect on your ­emotions,
thoughts, and actions, which will result in creating
­realities that may seem overwhelmingly negative. Your
beliefs determine what kind of feelings, thoughts, and
behaviors you exhibit, which then reinforce your r­ eality.
In this e-book, you will learn how letting go of those
­beliefs, which are not yours, will make you feel empow-
ered, freer, and lighter.
Keywords: Acknowledge, Actions, Affirmation,
Alignment, Anything is possible, Belief systems,
Beliefs, Believe, Consciousness, Create, Desire,
Emotions, Empowerment, Excitement, Future,
Imagination, Inspiration, Knowledge, Law of attraction,
Life, Loa, Manifest, Metaphysics, Motivation, Paradigm
Shift, Personal development, Positive, Prefer, Reality,
Self-help, Self-improvement, Success principles,
Success, Vision, Wealth
You Create Your Own Reality 100 Percent
“You create your own reality.” This has become a catch
phrase within the new age here on earth. You do ­create
your reality 100 percent. If you have a ­belief that you
don’t create your reality 100 percent, the paradox of that
is that you are creating that belief!—despite ­everything
it backpedals to you. The idea that you call time is also
part of your creation. You may have ­perhaps heard
the saying that physical reality is an illusion, and that
time is an illusion. From the p­ erspective of God, it may
seem illusory, but let’s face it; when you are choosing
to ­create it, it seems quite real. This does not imply
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that you are not creating it, simply that
you are that good in creating it.
One of the many purposes for you to create
time is discovery, of having the capacity to
­advance. For example, we have a saying that
time flies by when you’re having fun. It may
seem in that sense to “fly,” but then that is
not the precise mechanism. The mechanism
involved in that instance is that you actually
create less time. Therefore, if two hours have
passed by your clock, and you have only
“­experienced,” say, 20 minutes, you have only
aged, physiologically, 20 minutes. You have
created, in that sense, less time by being in the
moment. Paradoxically, the actual only exist-
ing time is now, always now. You create the
idea of an illusion of a continuum, not recog-
nizing that in each and every given ­moment
you re-create your own reality entirely.
You use time in many ways, and some of
them have “tricked” you up. I will now pres-
ent one of the many ideas in which you use
time that, by simply being made aware of,
you will have the option to change, if you
desire. Because you only exist in the here
and now, by extension, you have ­created the
illusion that the present is a­ ctually a result
of the past and by extension, result in the
future. However, you only ever e ­ xist in the
now and create or re-create the past from
the present. Whenever you are “­reflecting”
on your past, you are actually re-creating a
scenario about what you perceive that your
past was, yet in the present, in the now.
Recognize that this is not the case other
than that definition you assign it.
The way that you create your ­ reality
is through your belief systems. When
you ­believe something, you go about as a
­person who believes that. Your actions are
what create your reality.
You direct your activities as indicated
by your beliefs. Therefore, any belief that
you have because you act as though you
have it, is or appears a reality for you.
­Operating on the premise that the present
is the ­result of the past, you re-create your
present, ­however, in a way that binds you
to that very past. Most often this is a past
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that you do not prefer and therefore, you
perceive that things are happening to you
now, ­because of something that happened
in the past. The only reason that it appears
that way is because you believe that it must.
You are ­actually re-creating in the present;
in the now, that scenario as being a result of
the past. It is only so because of your defini-
tions and your belief system. Your present is
not ­experientially a result of the past.
You generally have everything that you
have to do, that excites you, with integrity,
in any given moment. You are a complete
and a full toolbox. There are no tools that
you must go to the store and buy. It is all
there, right now; the only time there is! The
idea of the future extending out lineally in
the other direction is that there is no one
the future. There are infinite probabilities
of futures, each of which will be lived out
on some level. If you wish to take a right
down the road of your life instead of a left
at a particular fork, some portion of your
consciousness on some level would have
taken the left and lived it out. This is what
is sometimes called “probable realities.”
Be that as it may, you generally get the
chance to choose which reality you will
­exist within. As opposed to there ­being a
­future to predict, everything that is ­possible
and probable is out there as a possibility.
It is not so much what will the ­future be as
which future will you choose. You can begin
to decide that everything that occurs within
your life is a choice. What this implies is
that you have the power, by extension,
to make another choice. When you begin
to reflect on the idea that the present is not
a consequence of the past, you free your-
self up from using that past as an elaborate
excuse to continue to do the things you
do not prefer. There is no genuine energy
behind those things, you are re-creating
­
them in the now and perpetuating them as
a choice. You do not have to.
When you recognize that you have any-
thing in any “now” moment, and become
the you that you wish to be right “now,” not
using things you did in the past as an excuse
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why you cannot, another interesting thing
will seem to occur. That past will appear to
have changed, for when you r­ edefine who
you are in the “now” moment, by extension
you must have had a slightly different past
to be the different new you. Therefore, in
any “now” moment, when you transform
and change, you do change your entire past
and your entire future automatically any-
way. You can have the past that will allow
you to have the present that you desire.
The upset that you create stems from the
past you do not prefer. Reassign the new
meanings and you will get the new present.
As you begin to live in the now and do what
is most reflective, in any given m ­ oment, of
who you are, you actually ­create less time
and “age” in a slower fashion. In order to
extend the term of your life, all you need
to do is stay in the here and now.
When you do create “what if” s­ cenarios,
when you invest a lot of your energy
­contemplating the past, you are nullifying
the present you are currently creating. If
you will reestablish your relationship with
the present, you will always know what is
available at that present. Since those are
the only things that you can act on, any-
way, why bother to worry about the future
what if and the past I wish it wasn’t.
You can, when you feel swept away by
this again, recognize that it is a choice.
Take a few deep breaths, relax, don’t allow
­yourself to become reactive, allow yourself
to explore what you are thinking, how you
are feeling, and what you must be believ-
ing to feel that way. If a “reaction” is about
to happen that you do not prefer, recognize
that that reaction is a choice in the moment.
What that implies is that there are other
choices. When you are creating a great
upset, you are not allowing yourself the
awareness of the other choices. If you have
to choose between getting upset and not
getting upset, I think you may be inclined
to pick the latter choice. This will give you
a chance to break free of the momentum
that you feel has trapped you into doing
the things that you do not prefer.
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Creating a Past for a Better Future
You perpetuate your now reality by what
you have done in the past. You normally say
“I’m this type of person, who does this type
of things because I’ve always done it that
way. Therefore, I will always p ­ robably will.”
If you wish to “play” with these ideas, then
this retrospective reconstruction will come
in handy. For there is ­nothing any more
real about what you perceive your past was
than what you wish it was. R ­ emember, you
are creating your past in your presence.
As you change, although you may not be
conscious of this, you even create that path
slightly differently. You latch on to different
things that happened, which allows you to
be the you that you are now.
What you can do—which you may find
to be very helpful and interesting—is to
re-create a path that you prefer, by doing
this: Use your imagination to conjure up
who you wish to be. When you have got a
solid image of this idea, then use the same
imaging to create the path that you would
have needed to have in order to have that
present. Now plot that path into your own
framework. Say, for instance; to be the
person that you wish to be, you feel it will
take you 10 years. Simply imagine and cre-
ate a memory 10 years ago that you have
started to do that thing. You will find that it
is very easy to reassign that new path that
will now make it “OK” to have the present
that you now desire, for you can now say
it originated from the past that let up to it.
You simply do that right now, using what
you perceive to be your past to perpetuate
things you do not prefer in your present.
For instance, if you had a disease that
would take 5 years to heal. Regress in your
imagination back to 5 years ago and begin
that healing then. That will now make it
acceptable to be healed now. When you go
through that whole imaging, and come to
the now person that you prefer to be, all
you need do to be that person is to act like
you are already that person. This works
for you already do it. What you perceive to
be your past is not cast in stone; you are
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