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Belief is a power that we can use for everything.
We hold this power close to us and it is powerful.
What does
BELIEVE
really mean?
According to the dictionary, it is something
you “accept as true; feel sure of the truth of.”
It is the power of your own mind. Your own
thinking. You can’t weigh or measure belief, but
you can feel it.
Belief is something that you do not doubt. It is
something you have faith and confidence in.
You believe without a shadow of a doubt, that
you are not going to be lifted off the ground and
float up into the sky. Even though it makes no sense
and you can’t see the gravity that holds you down,
you believe that it exists.
The point I am trying to make here is that you
don’t have to “SEE” it to believe it. We believe that
the sun will rise in morning and set at night.
We believe that the grass will grow in spring.
We believe that our food will digest after we eat it.
And even though we don’t know exactly how
any of this happens, we just believe that it will hap-
pen every single time.
So why would I need a sign to remind me daily
that anything I believe in will be done unto me and
come to me. I guess that’s the human in me. The
doubter, the questioner, the fear monger-er, the
worry wart-er Maybe you know someone like that
too? (wink wink)
A few years ago I bought a gold holiday sign that
says “believe” in sparkly letters (meant for Santa
Claus but useful for me) and I never take it down. It
stays up all year and is planted in my kitchen perma-
nently right in front of my face as a reminder. It sits
right near my kitchen table on the top of a cabinet
so I can look up at it everyday, as often as needed. It
has the power to shift my state of being. It has the
power to pull me back to my reality which is the
belief that I CAN DO, BE or HAVE ANYTHING I
DESIRE AS LONG AS I BELIEVE THAT I CAN.
So you can imagine my chagrin when I lost the
belief in myself? YES I DID... And it happened on
May 10, 2013. I know the exact date because it was
the day before my body building competition.
Really. The day before. I kid you not. I wasn’t
going to do it. No one knows this of course. So
SHHH! Please don’t spill my secret fear. But here is
what happened.
One day before my competition, I told my
daughter (who was participating in this competition
with me on stage) that I was “not doing” it.
I told
her I QUIT! I told her I didn’t believe I could be
ready to get up there on that stage.
Her reaction? With her scrunched up face and a
look to kill, she replied:
“
W H A T the heck are you saying Ma? Why
are you acting so ridiculously crazy?”
She was on to something, of course.
I was acting crazy.
I was out of faith.
I was creating drama.
I was outside the moment, projecting into to the
future.
I had misplaced my “belief.”
The truth is I was so out of faith because I was
hanging out in fear. The fear of not being “good”
enough to get up on that stage and show my half
naked 53 year old body. The fear of not being
“
where I thought I should be” on the scale. The fear
of not fitting into my suit... (well just name some-
thing and I was afraid of it on this day). Fear begets
more fear. The more I feared, the more I feared. But
the fact is that none of it upon actual examination,
really made any sense. None of it was true.
Here’s the deal. I had a camera crew of three men
coming to film my experience for a video documen-
tary I’d been working on for 23 weeks. They had
invested their time with me.
They believed in me.
I had invited 40 plus people to come “cheer”
me on and support me in the audience.
They
believed in me.
My two children were participating to compete
on stage with me. They worked hard and had sup-
ported me in my quest to get this butt up there with
them.
They believed in me.
I had invested 23 weeks of dedication, persist-
ence, hard work. I had pushed thru exhaustion,
injury, Christmas Holidays, dates, events, vacations
and stuck to the regimented eating and workout
plan thru all of it. I had showed in every way to cre-
ate this body of my dreams.
In order to get thru
23
weeks, I had believed in me.
My daughter’s reaction caused a reaction in me.
W H A T the heck am I even saying? I thought
“
Rosie, you had better SHIFT. You had better SHUT
UP and you had better SHOW UP.”
YOU DESERVE
TO SHOW UP FOR YOURSELF and for all these
people that you love and who love you and all
those who believe in you...
and in the most loving way, I took my crying,
mascara stained, deflated feeling self to the base-
ment. I got out the box of paint , my canvas, my
brushes and my heart.
I cried and I painted.
And I painted and I cried.
Until the word BELIEVE showed up on the can-
vas and then I stopped crying. I painted a sign for
myself that said BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
On May 11, 2013, I did show up ~ at the event
~ on that stage ~ as the best version of myself that
I could be in that moment. Both physically, emo-
tionally and spiritually.
I showed up for my kids, to show them that any-
thing is possible.
I showed up for my TEAM, to show them that I
believed in them.
I showed up for all women over 40 who think
that they CAN’T.
And I showed up for ME...
Because in my moment of weakness and fear
and doubt, I was able to hold onto to the idea that
FAITH is something that you live by and with every-
day. Faith is something you let into your life. Faith is
something you keep and it keeps you safe. It leads
you every day to all that you could possibly desire.
Faith believes in you just as much as you believe in it.
Faith is the opposite of fear. When fear pops in,
the only way out is thru with undying faith.
What are you afraid of?
Is what you are afraid of really true?
The real truth is that your infinite possibility lies
in your faith. Trust that you can DO WHATEVER IT IS
THAT YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN DO...
and yes.. it really is that simple. Pick up your paint
brush, your canvas and create for yourself the life you
want and the feelings you want to experience.
I believe you can.
Rosie Battista is a Self Love Expert and Confidence
Creator, helping women over 40 look and feel amazing
by eating better food and thinking better thoughts.
Call Rosie at 908-872-8613 for a free consultation on
how you can build the best version of yourself. Check
out www.sleepingnakedafter40.com for more on the
Rosie’s Motivational Movie.
BELIEVE IT AND YOU SHALL HAVE IT
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