The Sunday Current | Belief as Threshold

The power of noticing what you’ve already decided isn’t possible

I used to believe there was a formula to being happy.

I think many of us were sold a similar belief. If we could focus, establish healthy routines, get a good paying job, build a family, buy a house… happiness would be waiting on the other side of that equation.

I bought in. I spent years painstakingly acquiring the bits and bobs to create the life that would finally fulfill me and deliver a normal, steady, long-lasting happiness. I burned myself out trying to create it.

So imagine my surprise when I was standing in the middle of that so-called happiness, and all I wanted to do was run away.

At that time in my journey, I really struggled to discern between truth and belief.

But now I know that if a thing is true, it is true all the time.

What we believe about that truth is where we access co-creation and the Fluid Field.

For instance: the truth is that every living thing on earth will die. That doesn’t change from person to person. It’s a universal, unshakable truth.

But what do I believe about death? What meaning do I apply to that truth? Do I believe it’s the ending? A new beginning? A natural part of the life cycle? A cosmic rebirth?

The beliefs we apply shape our experience every day. Truth, however, is in the Fixed Field and it may not be something we ever fully conceptualize or understand while still in our human bodies. Much of the truth will be revealed after we depart the physical world.

But the beautiful, collaborative magic is: beliefs are part of our Fluid Field. They are malleable. They can collapse. They can be rebuilt to match our personal evolution.

The Everyday Kind

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to decipher what is truth and what is belief.

Not just the big, existential beliefs like God, the universe, or the purpose of life—though I spend plenty of brain power deconstructing and decolonizing in those areas too.

I mean the sneaky, insidious, everyday kind. The ones that shape how we move through a week, a day, or a moment. The ones we don’t even realize we’re forming, yet they set the stage for our entire lives. They are the cages we make our decisions from.

Things like:

• “That’s not possible in the next year.”

• “I can’t possibly leave this job yet.”

• “That kind of love just isn’t meant for me.”

• “It’s too late to start that dream.”

  
  

These don’t sound like beliefs.

They sound like facts. Like truth so solid you've built your entire life around them.

But they’re not. They’re often stories we’ve outgrown. Scripts we’ve memorized. Narratives that helped us survive.

When you examine them through a neutral lens, you see none of those statements are facts. They're not gospel. They’re brittle. They shatter under the right pressure.

Because the truth might actually be:

• I don’t understand how it’s possible in the next year.

• I could quit right now.

• Love isn’t “meant” for anyone. It’s universal energy.

• I could start right now.

And the moment we start treating those beliefs like choices instead of facts?

Everything shifts.

The Threshold of Believability

A Manifestation Practice inspired by Darryl Anka / Bashar

This practice helps you uncover the invisible beliefs shaping your sense of timing around manifestation. Often, it’s not that what you desire is impossible—it’s that your belief system has quietly placed a delay on its arrival, which ultimately affects the actions you take.

Here’s how to find and shift those internal limits.

1. Name your desire. Choose one heartfelt desire you're currently manifesting. Something you truly long for. It could be a life shift, opportunity, relationship, or expression of your soul.(Example: “I want to be a millionaire.”)

2. Ask: “How long do I believe this will take? ”Get honest. What’s your current timeline expectation? Five years? Ten? A lifetime?

3. Decrease the timeline incrementally.Ask yourself:

• Would 20 years be enough?

• 15 years?

• 10 years?

• 5 years?

• 1 year?

• 6 months?

• This week?
  

Notice when the answer shifts from “yes” to “no.”That’s your Threshold of Believability, the edge of your current possibility.

4. Ask: “What must I believe about myself or this situation to feel that hesitation? ”Let the belief reveal itself. It might sound like:

• I’m not ready yet.

• That’s too fast.

• I don’t deserve that.

• I don’t have the resources.

• People like me don’t get things like this.

Example: As I examined my own desire to be a millionaire someday, I realized I didn't think it was possible because at the bottom of my belief I thought it had to come through my own hard work. I simply didn't believe I was able to complete the amount of work or grow a big enough audience in the amount of time. But that's not exactly true—is it? People find Pokemon cards and are gifted estates. I'm not banking my life on these possibilities, but surely I can expand my beliefs to include everyday miracles. Which means, it doesn't have to come through hard work at all. It could come tomorrow. The belief I held like truth? The one that stated I needed to work hard for financial abundance? It shattered under the slightest weight because it's not true. I just believed it. I can choose to believe differently.

5. Transform it. Thank the belief for keeping you safe. Then gently replace it with one that reflects your current values.Examples:

• “I don’t deserve this” → “I am inherently worthy of life’s best, just as I am.”

• “That’s too fast” → “The universe moves in divine timing—and it might be faster than I expected.”
  

6. Retest the timeline.Go back to the shorter timelines. See if your resistance has softened. Beliefs shift when they’re met with conscious awareness.

7. Keep going.Your beliefs will evolve as you do so invite yourself to examine more beliefs, finding the root, and then reworking it.

Understanding your beliefs ultimately gives us the room to challenge or integrate them.

The Root of Belief

What if your belief isn’t rooted in truth, but in fear? Or timing? Or trauma? Or culture? Or conditioning?

What if it was inherited from a family who didn’t know any better? Or absorbed from a system that never intended you to thrive?

This is where the power begins: Not in “fixing your mindset,” but in recognizing that your mindset was crafted by survival. Your beliefs helped your world make sense. But if you’ve raised your own conscious awareness… If you’ve reconnected to your humanity… They may no longer fit the person you are becoming.

And you get to write something new.

I did that myself, standing outside a beautiful, newly built home in a picturesque suburb outside Raleigh.

I had the minivan. My beautiful children rushing inside. My husband kissing me on the way by, carrying the heavy load of groceries.

I had completed the formula with perfect precision.

But it wasn’t bespoke to me and even surrounded by a life full of love, I wanted to run away from it. I believed that I had to do it a certain way and then I’d be happy. I built my whole life around it. There, standing in someone else’s happily ever after, I realized I bought in on a lie.

I had to go back to the drawing board.

I had to ask what I actually wanted from this life—and then do something I’ve become very good at:

I had to start over.

I had to examine what I believed I was worth and start treating myself accordingly. I had to stop allowing people to treat me like an after thought, and I needed to stop waiting for them to treat me differently. I started valuing my time and effort; I stopped doubting my worth.

It took years and is a practice ongoing, but by challenging each of my poorly built beliefs around the kind of treatment I deserved and the things I was allowed to want, I started to carve out a life that is designed with intention and care.

It is my devotional belief that you can do the same.

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  Sunday Current Reflection

  • What’s something I deeply desire but already decided can’t happen?

  • What belief lives inside that decision?

  • Is it mine? Is it even true?