Monkey Removal
Author: Michael Claridge

How many monkeys are you carrying? Come now, I am sure you are carrying at least one or two – maybe more. Are they heavy? Do they bother you or have you become good friends? Some monkeys can be pretty heavy. I have carried a few myself a time or two. Not too fun if you ask me.

This article is all about removing the monkeys that you carry around with you. The first thing you need to do is to recognize if you are carrying a monkey or not. You might need a little help in figuring that out.

First, look on your shoulders or your back. Is one sitting there? That is usually where they are perched. In fact, they like to stack themselves up on top of each other to weigh you down. And being perched up on your back puts them closer to your ears where they can whisper lies to you. Their best lie is that they aren’t even there. They like that one, because they have such a great success rate with it.

So what do these monkeys look like? They take on all shapes and sizes, and have many colors and shades too. There are too many to list here but I will give you an idea of the most common monkeys that exist.

One of the most common monkeys is the “I Can’t” monkey. Boy, does he cause problems. My sons have got that one permanently attached to their backs. I had the most awful time last week getting my youngest son to recognize that monkey. He had to give a verbal book report in his reading class. We wrote the report out; he then read it over many times and practiced it a few more times. I asked my son to present it to me. That darn monkey showed up.

“I can’t.” my son said. I replied, “Of course you can, you have just got to try.” I guess I didn’t see the monkey either. And that’s just it, the “I Can’t” monkey is always hidden by the “I’m afraid” monkey, or the “I don’t want to fail” monkey, or the “Nobody will like it” monkey. When I took a closer look at my son I could see that he had several of these piled on his back.

You know, these monkeys have another name? I like to think of it as their scientific name. That name is limiting beliefs.

The monkeys that we carry around are beliefs that just like a monkey on our back limit us on our course through life. They get in the way of real success; they slow us down and deter us from our course, and worst of all they lie to us. They keep us from our hearts desires.

Like I said earlier, you probably have a few on your back. Believe me, even if you don’t see them or don’t feel them they still are there and are causing you to fail. So why are you keeping them? Why do you let them weigh you down? Why do you let them pile up on your back? Why don’t you just get rid of them?

I hope that as I have explained what monkeys are that you have already begun to notice that one of the biggest things that cause you to sabotage the success you could be having in life is your limiting beliefs. It is very important that you start to see those beliefs for what the truly are. They are as silly and useless as carrying monkeys around on your back. They are not doing you any good.

Once upon a time they might have worked for you, or helped you get through a hard situation, or helped you to cope with difficult people. But do they help you now? Ask yourself this very important question: If I continue to believe this will it get me closer to what I desire to have in my life? Notice I didn’t justify your belief. It really doesn’t matter if it is true or not. Will it get you closer to your destination? That is the important question.

Most often we hold onto these beliefs because they justify our behavior. But you have got to see that your behavior is only a reaction to the belief in the first place.

Let me see if I can give you an example: You think you are not going to be able to go on a vacation this year because your business isn’t doing well and your boss is the biggest jerk on earth. At least that is what your monkey is telling you. But the true belief is that you don’t think that you are good enough, you’re afraid to talk to your boss and ask for vacation time.

Your “fear” monkey comes from a deeply seated belief that you are not good enough. Where did you get that belief? Did you get it from your current boss? No, you got it when you were four years old and your father laughed at the birthday card that you had spent days making for him.

By laughing, your father in essence told you that no matter how much work you do you will never be good enough. Ever since that day you have had that monkey on your back telling you lies.

Was that belief true that day when you let that monkey hop on your back? No. Is it true today? No. Then why do you still believe it? Why do you still allow the monkey to sit on your shoulder and lie to you?

Actually can you really know how your boss will react to you asking for vacation time? Even though he has acted like a jerk the last two hundred times – can you really prophesy that he will this time? You really can’t, can you? You never know, maybe your boss just won the lottery and is willing to give vacations and raises to all the employees that ask – you never know.

Let me tell you a truth that all self-help Gurus would stand behind. If you go forward with faith and have a positive attitude the chances are you will get what you desire – regardless of how many times in the past your boss has been a jerk. Like I said, you never know what the universe has thrown together in your behalf today. Today is your lucky day. Today you let go of a belief that has held you hostage for many years. Today you say good-bye to that monkey forever. Today is a miracle day!

You need to ask yourself: Why do you have the belief you have? Why do you let that monkey sit there? Is it a true belief? Was it true when you first believed it? Do you still want that monkey to sit around and lie to you? And most importantly; If you continue to believe this will it get you closer to what you desire to have in your life?

Let me give you another example. This is in my opinion the most destructive of all limiting beliefs: You are not loved. So many people carry around this destructive belief.

Can you honestly tell me that you have absolutely no one that you know of that loves you? What a lie! What a destructive belief! What a huge monkey! Sometime in your past someone caused (law of cause and effect) you to believe that you weren’t worthy of being loved. Or caused you to believe (the effect) that you aren’t loved. Was that belief true then? NO! Is that belief true today? An emphatic NO!

So ask yourself that very important question: Will believing that no one loves you get you any closer to what you desire (to be loved)? Will going around believing the lies that monkey tells you cause people to magically fall in love with you? Will holding onto that monkey cause you to be more loveable?

My friend, if you hold the belief that you are not loved – get rid of it, NOW! Can you not see that the belief makes you behave in ways that are not loveable and therefore the belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy? Do you not see that in order to have the effect of people loving you that you must do things that cause them to love you, and that no amount of believing that they don’t love you will ever cause them to love you? It’s the law of cause and effect at work.

The fact is that you are your own creator. You have the power to create the life you desire - you and you alone. Choose today that you will create the life you desire and stop reacting to destructive beliefs. Get those destructive monkeys off your back and start creating the life you desire to have. You have the power!







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Michael Claridge is soon to become the next supercharged Self-Help Guru. His greatest passion is teaching others how they can harness the power they have to create. Michael can deliver 20-minute teasers and full-day seminars on the following:

"The Power to Create the Life You Desire"
"When you Got to Create – Create!!"
"IGot2Cre8 – Do You?”
”Remove Those Monkeys – Before They Remove You”
Michael is the Author of the 6 day I-Course “Got2Cre8 – 6 Days to CREATE the Life You Desire! And On the Seventh Day, See That It Is Good!”

For More information please visit www.got2cre8.com

Coming Soon Michael’s new book “The Power to Create – Live the Life You Desire!”


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