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When and where do core beliefs do there fascinating dance in creating our individuated patterns of behavior?

Pinpointing an exact moment for me can be traced back to 1967.

My father, Pete, suffered from heart disease a great deal of his adult life.

Frequently, in and out of the Veteran’s Hospital in Houston, interacting with him can only be found in the slightest memories. In March of 1967, he finally relinquished his struggle and died from heart failure at the ripe old age of 54.


I was seven years old, the last of five children and part of a household that scrimped for the meager means to survive. Dad’s death only exacerbated the situation.


Our home was a flat-topped abode in great need of repair, and with four out of the five children still under one roof, there simply weren’t enough bedrooms to go around. I was relegated to a cot-bed in the corner of my parent’s bedroom.


When the phone rang in that pre-dawn hour, I listened in the darkness as my mother spoke with a hospital administrator. She took down the information and kept responding with either a yes or I see. As the conversation ended, she paused for a moment and then began phoning my aunt.


The sound of the rotary dial clicked in rhythm with the choir of crickets hastening to get in their last musical efforts before sunrise. Intuitively knowing this was serious, I sat up, leaned against the wall behind my bed and wrapped my arms around my pillow. Its pliable form became my home made shield.


After apologizing for the hour, my mother told her that my father had died of a heart attack.

Then, with frustration in her voice said, “Now what am I supposed to do with a seven year old boy?”

The pillow didn’t work. The words pierced my heart.

Hearing these words, my seven-year-old interpretation was that somehow this was my fault.

Children’s minds work in fascinating and inexplicable ways.


My mother never actually said it was my fault, but I determined from the comment that I was a burden, that I was going to have to work very hard in order to be worthy enough to remain in that household. Then and there, I took responsibility for my father’s death.


When the actual memory of this resurfaced in my adult years, I recognized how beautifully this adopted belief system had played itself out in my life. I was a champion super-achiever – not because I always liked every task, but because I thought it would please my mother, friends, teachers or love interest. In order to be accepted, I must do before asked, taking responsibility for everyone’s happiness before my own. This demon of unworthiness was like an unquenchable thirst, yet all I seemed to do was fill everyone else’s glass.


Popular author Carolyn Myss once presented an idea called The Six Second Theory. She stated that something that literally could have taken six seconds still governs what we think about ourselves to this very day. Six seconds! That’s not a long time and yet in that fraction of a minute, careless words can leave lasting impressions.


You may have had a second grade teacher say something like, “I just want you to mouth the words. OK?” Even with a great love for singing, that 6 seconds helped bury that love and formulate a decision to stop altogether. It could have been an off-hand comment from a parent or sibling, but it chiseled away at your core foundation creating a belief about yourself that was thought of as truth.


Those comments were molds into which we poured ourselves, letting an identity take form that would rule our entire lives.


Nothing could be further from the truth.


When I realized the power and validity I had given my mother’s six second comment, I had one of those sky opening, angel singing, a-ha moments.


What my mother said really had nothing to do with me. It was simply the frustrated expression of a woman who was sad, frightened about the future and worried about feeding all of us. It had nothing to do with me personally. Yet, the internalized lie made it feel like it had everything to do with me.


Whatever six second moment you are holding on to, the one that gets in your way and holds you back from your greatness, well, it has nothing to do with you either.


Those seconds might be the opinions or fears of people who are dealing with their own survival, with their own collective six seconds. As we recognize this, we can begin to disrupt the contagion of despair, anxiety and hopelessness that we mindlessly pass on to one another.


I was told that life was hard, challenging and sacrificial. Everything I observed supported that. There was little that floated in the air of that Southeast Texas home that encouraged a belief other than basic survival saturated with worry.


But, the possibility of transformation can root in the most malnourished soil. The indestructible seed is the willingness to change our belief.


Remembering the words of Matthew 21, we are instructed that whatever we ask for in prayer, believing, we will receive. This scripture is a simple reminder that God gives us the desires of our heart if we believe in our worthiness to receive them. This principle’s manifestation isn’t based on our past as saint or transgressor. It is a law, activated by our current state of consciousness. Likewise, Luke 12 teaches that it is God’s great pleasure to give us the kingdom. Not just an alleyway or a portion deemed suitably matched to our life’s accomplishments, but the kingdom – the kingdom, the whole kingdom and nothing but the kingdom so help God’s pleasure. We must retrain our minds to embrace this belief.


If we believe in these things, simple and common, can’t we believe that our prayers are answered? Can’t we believe that God will provide in all areas at all times?


And, can’t we begin to dissolve any loyalty to an old six-second core belief that truly has no truth to it whatsoever?

David Ault
Visionary Vocalist, Author & Motivational Speaker

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