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Belief
What does belief mean to you? Is it simply believing in yourself, a religion,
way of life or knowledge passed on, learnt or found? We all believe in
something and our beliefs are challenged in one way or another daily.
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t is easy to change our state of mind and actions,
your environment and your thoughts will take
care of this, what it is harder to change is what
you believe is true. You have to break down what
you hold as fact and replace it with the new fact.
For some you have to see it for yourself, others need
to feel or do it another way or on some occasions
hearing from someone you trust or admire can
simply sway your beliefs if you allow it. We have
all seen or heard someone say “ I saw this film the
other day and it was rubbish”, then we take on that
belief as if it were our own, perhaps telling someone
else further down the line how rubbish that film was
without even seeing it. We change our beliefs over
time, but in our own time.
This leads me to ask, why do people try to force their
own beliefs on to others? Are they challenging our
beliefs and is it a bad thing to have them challenged?
We all have differing ways to be convinced, so a little
challenge couldn’t hurt, right?
Let’s take a step back and take a quick look at Values,
these and beliefs make up the basis of our worlds.
We set our values of how and what we want from life
at an early age, meaning we tend to get our values
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from parents and close family members, and of
course, our own minds. We set our world and values
for honesty, love, happiness, goals, work family,
friends etc… This is what makes up who we are at
the base level. We can change our values if we put
a lot of effort into it, so if you want to change who
you are, think about what values you have and what
makes you happy or annoyed. We’ll look into values
in more depth another time so back to beliefs…
So why is it that one person can do something well
and another not so well, even if they have had the
same training, focus and knowledge?
Belief is the key. Think about a time when you were
learning to do something. Did you believe that you
were good at that task? No? Then fast forward to
now and you perform that task easily and effortlessly,
and ask yourself do you now believe that you are
good at that task? The likely answer is Yes. If you
look at the difference in force and feeling behind the
beliefs you can start to see what your mind can do,
both good and bad.
We have all said “I can’t do that”, therefore believe
that we cannot do the task and put a barrier in place
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