Sabrinmg
Joined: 29 Jan 2012
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Location: Over the rainbow
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 Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:19 am Post subject: Changing beliefs
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I'd like to share with you a technique for changing a belief. You'll hear a myriad of differing opinions about this, ranging from changing a belief is impossible to changing a belief is unnecessary and so on.
We all have things in our lives that we don't like. For this, I'm going to be using the Hermetic principle of "so above, so below". In other words, we'll be working with the premise that reality is a mirror.
To know what our beliefs are, all we need to do is look at any area of our life. Do we like what we see? If not, we have some sort of limiting belief relating to that area.
I'll give you an example of one of my own limiting beliefs, and what I did about it.
I seemed to forever to be arguing with someone about something. This often left me feeling hurt, inadequate and misunderstood.
It took a long, long time, and some serious soul searching, to realize that I was the one creating the circumstances - no doubt to subconsciously prove to myself that the continual anger and resentment that I felt was justified.
The next step I took was for me to attack the rational of the belief (fears weapon is fear itself and has no defence against courage).
I made up a ludicrous analogy which highlighted the absurdity of the belief
"holding onto anger and hurts is just as silly as trying to win a game after the ref has blown the final whistle. the game is over but yet you're still trying to win. how silly is that. there may be a rematch at some point in the future. better to spend all that creative energy, not on holding on to past grieviencances, but learning to improve your game."
On the analogy went, getting more and more absurd as it went on. I mentally went through the analogy several times per day. In less than a week, the past hurts had little effect on me.
The brain loves and thrives on associations. The guys in the Memory Olympics use many tricks to remember things, most of them based around associations - a memory palace is a favorite.
When you deliberately create associations, things are much easier. "Ooooh!", your brain might say "B is like A! Why didn't you just say so?!"
The world around you changes in accordance with your thoughts and actions - although it suffers a lag. Be prepared to undergo the same circumstances that belonged to an old belief, for a little while, after you decide to change it.
Have fun 
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