The Truth About Wellness: It Starts in the Heart and What You Believe
Belief Shapes Your Reality—And Your Health
Last night, my partner and wife Victoria and I spent the evening with new friends, and during our conversation, we explored something profound: the power of belief. Not just as a nice idea, but as the foundation of everything we experience. What you believe doesn't just influence your reality—it shapes it entirely.
This morning brought another conversation that deepened this understanding. A friend shared about his church experience and how they teach prayer to the next generation. While I'm not a religious person myself, I am deeply spiritual, and these conversations revealed something critical about wellness that most people miss entirely.
The Hidden Cost of Division on Your Well-Being
We face constant division in the world around us—political, social, cultural—yet we rarely acknowledge how profoundly this affects our well-being. This division isn't just "out there" in society; it creates internal fragmentation that manifests as stress, anxiety, chronic health conditions, and a persistent sense that something is missing.
When your beliefs are scattered, when you're constantly looking outside yourself for validation, permission, or answers, you fragment your power. And fragmented power cannot create lasting wellness.
Prayer, Power, and Personal Responsibility
From my spiritual perspective, prayer isn't something you do at designated times or in specific places. Prayer is what you do at all times. It's the continuous alignment between your beliefs, your thoughts, and your actions. It's living in accordance with what you know to be true in your heart.
Too often, I witness people relinquishing their power in the name of spirituality or faith. They want to "pray on it" as a way to delay action. They wait for a better time, for clearer signs, for permission to take the next step. But here's the truth: this waiting is about belief, and if you believe your power lies outside yourself, you'll never access it.
The Belief That Creates—Or Destroys—Wellness
If you believe your health is someone else's responsibility—whether that's a doctor, a higher power, or circumstances beyond your control—you've given away the very thing that could heal you. When you believe that your wellness is "out of your hands," it will forever remain out of reach.
You might have a vision of vibrant health, abundant energy, or emotional freedom. You can see it clearly. But if you don't believe you're the one who creates it through aligned action, it remains a mirage. The gap between vision and reality isn't closed by hope or wishful thinking—it's closed by belief-driven action.
This applies to every dimension of wellness:
Physical health: Believing your body has innate wisdom changes how you eat, move, and rest.
Mental health: Believing you can rewire your thoughts transforms your emotional landscape.
Financial health: Believing in your capacity to create value shifts your relationship with money and abundance.
Relational health: Believing you deserve authentic connection attracts deeper relationships.
Where Are You Seeking Outside Yourself?
Ask yourself honestly: Where in your life are you looking outside yourself for your health, your wealth, your abundance, your answers?
Are you waiting for:
The right doctor to fix you?
The perfect program to transform you?
Someone to give you permission to change?
External circumstances to align before you begin?
Stop it. Stop relinquishing your power, and take action now.
The Answers Have Always Been Within
If you don't know what action to take, it's because you're still seeking outside yourself. The confusion isn't a lack of information—it's a lack of connection to your inner knowing.
Look within, and you'll discover the answers have always been there. You've just been too distracted by the noise of "the world" telling you that solutions exist somewhere out there—in the next supplement, the next guru, the next program, the next breakthrough.
Wellness doesn't start with external interventions. It starts in your heart, with what you believe about yourself and your capacity to create change.
Reclaim Your Power Today
The most radical act of wellness you can commit today is taking full responsibility for your life. Not in a way that creates guilt or shame, but in a way that returns your power to you.
Believe that you are the creator of your health. Believe that aligned action matters more than perfect conditions. Believe that the wisdom you seek already lives within you.
When you shift from seeking to creating, from waiting to acting, from believing in external solutions to trusting your internal guidance—everything changes. Your health changes. Your energy changes. Your entire life changes.
The truth about wellness isn't found in any product, protocol, or philosophy. It's found in the quiet space of your heart, where you decide what you believe about yourself and what you're capable of creating.
Start there. Start now. The power has always been yours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Does this mean I shouldn't seek help from doctors or professionals?
A: Not at all. Seeking professional guidance is an empowered choice when you recognize that you're the one choosing your support team. The difference is whether you're looking for someone to "fix" you (relinquishing power) or partnering with experts while maintaining responsibility for your wellness journey.
Q: Isn't believing I can control everything unrealistic and potentially harmful?
A: This isn't about controlling external circumstances—it's about controlling your response, your beliefs, and your actions. You can't control everything that happens, but you can absolutely control what you believe about it and how you choose to move forward.
Q: What if I've tried everything and nothing works?
A: If you've "tried everything," ask yourself: were you trying from a place of belief in your power, or from a place of desperation and seeking external salvation? The same action taken from different beliefs creates different results. When you shift the belief, the action becomes truly aligned.
Q: How do I know if I'm genuinely taking responsibility versus just blaming myself?
A: Responsibility is empowering—it says "I have the capacity to create change." Blame is disempowering—it says "I'm broken and it's my fault." Responsibility opens doors; blame closes them. You'll feel the difference in your body and your energy.
Q: Can I still have faith in something greater than myself?
A: Absolutely. True faith and personal responsibility aren't opposites—they're partners. Faith can be the source that empowers you to act, not an excuse to wait passively. When you take aligned action, you're actually expressing your faith through your choices.
Author's Note
This post emerged from two conversations in less than 24 hours that revealed the same truth from different angles. Writing this reminded me how often we complicate what's actually simple: you are more powerful than you've been taught to believe.
I'm not sharing this from a place of having it all figured out. I'm sharing it because I've lived on both sides—I've waited for permission, sought answers everywhere except within, and wondered why nothing changed. And I've also experienced the radical shift that happens when you stop seeking and start creating.
My hope is that something here resonates in your heart, not just your mind. That you feel the truth of your own power, even if it scares you a little. Especially if it scares you a little.
Victoria and I continue to have these conversations because they matter. Because how we think about belief, power, and wellness determines not just our own lives, but what we pass on to the next generation.
If this post stirred something in you, trust that feeling. It's not coming from these words—it's coming from within you, where the answers have always lived.
With gratitude and belief in your power,
The truth you seek is already within you. You just have to be willing to look.
