How We Create Beliefs
Our beliefs make up our world and what we think is what we get. This principle is a scientific fact you may already be aware of.
Understanding intellectually how we create anything in our lives helps us to implement changes we want to make.
So, let us take a look at how a belief is formed: The mind constantly takes in information at every moment in our lives. We evaluate our environment and new situations by implementing auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory, gustative and visual senses. Often using several of these senses at the same time.
At any given moment we take in several millions of pieces of information, but we only consciously register about 40 of them. This process happens by implementing a complex filter system which selectively uses individual evaluation senses and filters those through the sieve of learned behaviour and collective consciousness.
We call the end result that shows up in our conscious minds our "Beliefs".
In order to let us cope with this continuous barrage of input in a functional way that keeps us sane our filter system constantly deletes most of the information it receives. What is kept and what is deleted depends on learned conditioning and collective consciousness. This selection process creates distortion, which shows up as a bias in our evaluations, namely our beliefs.
And finally our beliefs are also influenced by our experiences. For example, once we experience that boiling water scalds us, we memorise the experience and then generalise it and project it onto similar situations. This means that our beliefs are also created through generalisation.
Generalisations are of course a useful tool, because they stop us from re-evaluating everything we experienced every time.
However, since our mind creates its beliefs based on filtering the information it receives by distorting, deleting and generalising, our beliefs are not as rock solid as most of us would like to think. In fact they are pliable and can be changed and transformed according to our will.
Understanding the above premises has major consequences for our views on beliefs. Since they are created purely from within ourselves through a biased selection process we can also determine to change the selections we make to form our beliefs. This is very good news because it enables us to choose the tools to help us develop more empowering beliefs and strategies.
It also makes sense to use methods that create smooth, fast transitions to new behaviours and thinking, a major concern for anyone of us who wants to make life improvements. When we implement Energy Psychology it can be used in a gentle yet structured way to help you make positive changes in all areas of your life very quickly.
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