You, like me, probably held the childhood belief in Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy! We carried on believing in these myths until an older brother or sister spilled the beans, or we simply grew older and wiser enough to know they couldn't possibly be true.

They are just a few of the many happy little childhood beliefs that where told to us by our parents. We may well look back and laugh at how childish we where to belief such nonsense.

Although, it's also true that we are more than happy to encourage our own children to believe the same.

This makes for an interesting point!

A lot of our beliefs where formed as children, mostly learnt from our parents. The majority of these childhood beliefs have served us well, in fact we may not have reached adulthood without some of them.

I can remember well, as a kid, my Mum drilling into me that the main road was dangerous and that I wasn't allowed to cross it on my own.

That was good advice! That road was dangerous and I believed it enough not to cross it alone.

Don't talk to strangers! Don't go swimming after eating a meal! These where told to me so often that I came to believe that if I didn't do as I was told I would be put into some sort of danger.

Another childhood belief that was drummed into me by my Father was that, "You need to study hard and do well at school to get a good job and have a good living."

That was certainly a belief that his generation held, probably from his childhood, and one he tried to pass down to me.

But, school just wasn't for me, I wasn't stupid but I just had no interest in school or the things they where trying to teach me. So the belief I developed was that because I wasn't doing that well at school I would never be able to do well in life.

That's a big burden to carry around with you!

But now I see, in the UK anyway, that kids are graduating from University with good degrees and still not being able to find suitable employment.

I have even heard that some of them can only find the sort of menial jobs they could have got if they hadn't bothered spending years studying at University.

So that is a childhood belief that has been turned on its head.

But what other beliefs are we carrying around that far from doing us good are in fact more harmful to us. How many of us where told by our parents that, "Money doesn't grow on trees you know," or, "Money only comes from hard work," and even "Better to save it for a rainy day."

These are the sort of childhood beliefs that you don't always grow out of. No older brother or sister will take you to one side and say, "that's not true you know," because the chances are they've heard them so often themselves that they believe them too.

These are the worst sort of childhood beliefs because they penetrate deep into your subconscious. They make you react in adverse ways without you even realising it.

But, the good news is that you can change your beliefs to something that is more suited to what you want. Because a belief is simply a thought you think often enough for it to become a belief.

A belief doesn't have to be true, but if you belief it enough it will become your truth.

So the believe that "Money doesn't grow on trees," can easily be turned into "Money comes easily to me!"

Once you know these facts then any old childhood beliefs that are still lurking around in your subconscious, doing you more harm than good, can be rewritten and changed to whatever you want.

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