Belief

I was at lunch with my daughter and she proudly ordered a glass of water then dumped some kind of powder into it, then proceeded to eat a huge lunch, confident that she was losing weight by doing this.  Part of me thinks the water might fill her up as much as the other stuff is supposed to help, but I said nothing.

Whatever she is doing, no matter how much she eats, or how bogus that lik-a-maid type stuff looked, it works for her and the last thing in the world I want is to take away her belief in something like that.

It is the same for many people I know. I don't believe what they are doing really works, except for the fact that they believe it does and there is extraordinary power in believing.

My feeling is that we all have a power deep inside of us that can do amazing things -- if we only know how to access it.

Prayer, chanting, pills, sugar or real, laying on of hands, whatever it is, if you can find a way to truly believe in it miracles appear to happen.

Unfortunately that is so much harder than it sounds. We are not raised believing in that. In fact, most of us are brought up systematically being taught that only God, or Jesus, or Doctors, or Shamans, or pills, or something outside of us has real power. I believe that by any name they all exist inside of us and we use them to tap into that.

Saying you believe and really believing are not the same thing. But when it works, like when a whole group of people prayed for my friend and his leg miraculously healed in the hospital over night, I am in awe and elated and sad that I do not know how to tap into that all the time.