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Hope. Love hopes. Hope is powerful. Hope can be a verb. It can be something you do. Hope is the fuel that allows people trapped in unimaginable situations to push forward. To escape. Where there is no hope there is only despair and death. Where there is hope there is joy and life. For many people the question is how do I find hope in hopelessness? 

Doing time line therapy and swish pattern work the belief “code” has been changed in their brain. To reinforce that change work the woman is given the assignment of reading about the hundreds of case studies of women who survived breast cancer. In fact, she is told the five-year survival rate for breast cancers that have not spread beyond the breast is 99%, and hers has not spread beyond the breast.

She reads of many other women who have had mothers and grandmothers and aunts die of breast cancer but those individual patients survived. Her belief and hope that she too will survive becomes a firm foundation in her treatment and healing progression. Her beliefs become love. Love hopes.

Now imagine a patient gets the news they have an inoperable brain tumor and there is no known treatment to halt its growth. Hearing that diagnosis can be traumatic to say the least. The doctors do what they need to do in terms of providing the prognosis. There is not one known case of anyone surviving this type of tumor for more than three years.

Like the previous example this person had two close relatives die of the same type of tumor. They feared this would be their fate as well. Changing their belief system is encouraged and the person goes through interventions to do just that. They now believe it is possible their body could heal itself even though there is no known case where someone’s body has healed itself. Is their hope as strong as the previous example? Would yours be?

In summary, hope is one of the most important and powerful ideas we can hold onto. It creates powerful positive emotions. Hope itself is not an emotion. Hope doesn’t appear to have biochemical make-up in the body, but the emotions it triggers do. One of the dangers of fear is fear can trap hope. Hope though when properly fed and cared for cannot be contained, not even by fear. What do you feed hope? Examples. Lots and lots of examples of people who overcame hopelessness. Faith. Finding for yourself a worldview that fosters hope.

We challenge people with the worldview challenge and this question: do you really believe that what you believe is really real?” There are strong cultural influences that can shake the worldview people were raised with no matter where you live.

First the Christian worldview and more recently a naturalistic worldview have had dramatic impact on the culture of all “westernized” nations and have been influencing the people who have been raised with those and other worldviews. Those cultural influences on a worldview can create incongruencies in the actions of people and can absolutely influence how much hope they have in “hopeless” situations.

To reiterate, the best way to ensure you will have hope in a “hopeless” situation is create the belief there is always hope and feed that belief by reading about people who have succeeded, overcome, or survived, watching videos of achievers, overcomers, or survivors, feed your mind with examples of miracles, and check your worldview and make sure it supports hope.