How We Create Beliefs
Your beliefs make up your world. This means basically, that your beliefs dicate what you get out of life.
So, let us take a look at how a belief is formed: Your mind constantly takes in information at every moment in our lives. We evaluate our environment and new situations using one of our senses, or sometimes severel at the same time. These senses are auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory, gustative and visual.
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 modalities and filters those through the sieve of learned behaviour, our conditioning 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 way that keeps us sane our filter system constantly deletes most of the information it receives. What we keep and what we delete depends largely on learned conditioning. This selection process does not create an absolute reality, but distorts it. Your reality is different from mine, because your filter system will differ from mine. This evaluation bias produces your individual beliefs, which are also not absolute.
Your beliefs are further influenced by your personal experiences. Early childhood experiences form life long behaviour patterns and beliefs. Some of these beliefs are useful, some are not. For example, once we have experienced that boiling water scalds us, we memorise the experience and then generalise it using it as reference for future experiences of a similar nature. Generalisation is part of the belief forming process.
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 your will.
Your beliefs are created purely from within you. You have a choice what to believe and what not to believe. This creates your reality and your success in life, nothing else does. This is very good news because it enables us to choose the tools to help us develop more empowering beliefs and strategies which make problem solving in all areas of your life much easier.
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