by Michael K. Hirschorne | Apr 22, 2025
“A belief internalized can only become a ‘truth’ for the one internalizing it. This works for concepts like prosperity, as well as… poverty.”
Introduction: The Lens Through Which We See
We navigate life through a complex web of beliefs that shape our perception of reality. These beliefs act as filters, determining what opportunities we recognize, what challenges we face, and ultimately, what life experiences we create. The profound truth is that our internalized beliefs become our personal reality—whether those beliefs serve to elevate or limit us.
The Mechanism of Belief Internalization
How Beliefs Become “Truth”
When we deeply accept an idea about ourselves or the world, it doesn’t simply remain an intellectual concept. It integrates into our identity and becomes a lens through which we interpret all experiences. This process transforms mere thoughts into powerful forces that guide our decisions, reactions, and life trajectory.
The most potent aspect of internalized beliefs is their self-fulfilling nature. Once accepted as truth, our minds work tirelessly to find evidence supporting these beliefs while filtering out contradictory information.
The Dual Edge of Internalization
This mechanism works equally well for empowering and limiting beliefs:
1. “Prosperity Mindset”: Those who internalize beliefs about abundance often:
- Notice opportunities others miss
- Take calculated risks with confidence
- Persist through setbacks, viewing them as temporary
- Attract like-minded individuals who reinforce their outlook
2. “Scarcity Mentality”: Those who internalize beliefs about limitation typically:
- Focus on what could go wrong
- Avoid risks that could lead to growth
- See setbacks as confirmation of their worldview
- Gravitate toward relationships that validate their sense of limitation
Breaking the Cycle: Conscious Belief Selection
Understanding that our internalized beliefs become our personal truths gives us tremendous power. We can approach our mental framework with intention rather than passively accepting inherited or circumstantial beliefs.
Steps to Transform Your Belief System
- Awareness: Identify current beliefs influencing your perception
- Evaluation: Determine which beliefs serve your highest good
- Revision: Consciously choose beliefs aligned with your desired reality
- Practice: Actively reinforce new beliefs through daily affirmations and aligned actions
- Patience: Allow time for new beliefs to become deeply internalized
The Ripple Effect: Beyond Individual Reality
While internalized beliefs primarily affect our personal reality, their impact extends beyond us. Our attitudes, expectations, and behaviors—all stemming from our core beliefs—influence those around us. A parent’s internalized abundance mentality shapes their children’s worldview. A leader’s belief in possibility inspires innovative thinking throughout an organization.
Conclusion: The Responsibility of Choice
The understanding that “a belief internalized can only become a ‘truth’ for the one internalizing it” is both liberating and sobering. We hold tremendous power to shape our experience of reality through conscious belief selection. This knowledge comes with responsibility—to choose wisely the truths we allow to define our lives and, by extension, influence the world around us.
Whether we internalize prosperity or poverty, possibility or limitation, resilience or fragility—the choice is ours. And that choice, perhaps more than any external circumstance, determines the reality we will experience.
by Michael K. Hirschorne | Jul 11, 2024
Do you feel overwhelmed at times? Frustrated with how things are going in your life; possibly even(with what’s been going on in the world lately) feeling a bit of trepidation and anxiety about the future? I think it’s safe to say that we’ve all felt that way at one time or another. That in fact is what inspired me to create Heaven is Within. I have been working on this site for quite some time now, with one thing in mind; to help people to “see” that the reality they are experiencing is being viewed through a lens. It just happens to be THEIR lens, and the interesting part is that the reality never changes-the LENS does.
Today my friends, is the first day of the rest of your life. Welcome to the journey!
I have an interesting, and possibly even shocking bit of news; we are living under the “illusion” of separation. We believe we are separate from the animals, the trees and the vegetation, and most of all each other. That however would be inaccurate- from not only a spiritual perspective, but from a scientific one. If matter is made of atoms, and atoms of varying frequencies of energy, then we and everything else in the universe are ultimately………energy. Energy however can neither be created nor destroyed, but only transformed; it’s boundaryless and ever-changing. Maybe it’s time we change our lens?
by Michael K. Hirschorne | Jan 28, 2024
As the mist floated gently upon the lake, my thoughts wandered in an aimless procession of randomness.
Why am I here, and for that matter what is my purpose for being?
The ever-present tug at my soul begged for an answer.
A mother sparrow glided to the top of a pine tree and gently laid the final twig down which would complete her nest.
A child giggled as her mother lifted her high into the air.
In the distance, the faintest sound of a train whistle could barely be heard.
“All things are as they should be” was the answer that flashed across my mind.
We are here because we chose to be here, but WE are nevertheless a fleeting moment in time; simply and exquisitely – borrowed energy.
Consciousness lives forever.
by Michael K. Hirschorne | Oct 25, 2015
The Tenets of Religion
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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
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Eat specific foods, made a specific way, at a particular time.
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Act in a prescribed manner, on particular days, in a specific order.
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Know that the only way to heaven (way to God) is by following THESE particular rules; obey them or pay the price.
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Know the truth and the truth will set you free.
The Tenets of Spirituality
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Treat others the way you would like to be treated.
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Fuel your body with food that will sustain and energize you;
negative in equals negative out.
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Act with conscious awareness of what you are doing with everyone, and everything, in every moment of now.
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Know that you and everything in and of the entire visible and invisible universe is part of a divine matrix of pure energy. Heaven is therefore not a destination to be earned, but is within you. Ask only – does it serve?
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Know the truth and the truth will set you free.
by Michael K. Hirschorne | Aug 22, 2015
If I threw out the idea that what we perceive with our 5 senses in ultimate reality is only partially true at best, would it be embraced, or even acknowledged at all by even a small percentage of people? To go further still, how many of us would accept the rather peculiar concept that our reality then, and even time itself is an illusion that we in fact make up?
Before anyone dismisses this as nonsense, and not worthy of even reading any further, reflect upon the observation that Einstein (considered by many to be the most brilliant human to have ever lived) referred to time as the space-time continuum. Scientists today use the exact same terminology. By using this term it is evident that science believes that time exists along some sort of continuous platform. Referencing back to the book Conversations With God (Neil Donald Walsch) we can see how for example this platform is described as fluid, as opposed to static; with the very real possibility of traversing in 2 directions, i.e. into the “future” as well as the “past” from a particular point. From this it is apparent that time travel may at some point in the future, (if you pardon the apparent pun) become a reality.
To give the reader some hard and fast examples of what I am talking about when it comes to the perception/deception dilemma, consider observing a plane flying overhead. The observer will quite rationally conclude that at first glance the plane appears to be going quite slowly, relative to the actual speed (over 300 miles an hour) it is traveling. At this speed the plane could literally travel from Maryland to New Jersey in a little over 30 minutes. A feat that would take us humans over 60 hours if we were walking non-stop! Yet, as we observe the plane with our limited sense of eyesight, it “appears” as though the plane is practically going almost as fast as we can run.
A sunset appears to the observer as though the sun is actually “setting”, when in reality the earth, by virtue of the 1000 mph spin around its own axis creates the illusion of the sun sinking into the night sky. This illusion, although quite beautiful is not actually happening at all, but only “appears” that way, because our brain interprets it as such.
If we take for example the spectrum of light, we are very much aware that what we can actually see, as opposed to what is present within the spectrum is miniscule indeed. Everyone is familiar with ROYGBV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet). Yet the actual spectrum of light (to include gamma rays, ultra violet, x-rays and numerous others) is so vast relative to what we perceive ,that it can be compared to the thickness of dime sitting next to the Sears tower in Chicago.
When we touch upon the concept of matter itself, is when things really start to become obscure however. It has long been thought that the atom is the smallest particle that can exist. Today’s technology has demonstrated that even the atom contains sub-atomic particles such as bozons, leptons, quarks and as recent as 2007 the tetraquark. This in and of itself is not so obscure, but upon further examination we find some very interesting things occurring. Scientists have discovered that the distance of the electrons traveling around an atomic nucleus, is relative to the distance that Pluto is to the sun. Taken at face value then, the atom itself is mostly empty space. That is to say that all matter, (including humans) and everything in the universe is mostly empty space. Yet once again, we and everything around us are “perceived” as and experienced as solid.
Finally, even more strange is the fact that sub-atomic particles do not actually exist at all as “physical” entities of some sort-even at the microscopic level. At best, physicists can deduce that evidence for their existence can only be defined through photographic trails that they leave behind. Therefore, we can logically
conclude that everything in existence is 100% energy, and that all of physicality is actually created by (formed out of) non-physical “stuff”; a paradox of epic proportion. If one thinks about what I am proposing here, it requires them to re-examine what they think they know about the way things are; and may I even suggest about life itself?
