Explore Your Beliefs

We create our day-to-day reality with the set of beliefs that are embodied in us. As human beings, we all have a similar foundation of beliefs. As someone said, we all play "DO RE ME". Explore your beliefs!

One of those beliefs is the union of a man and a woman as an everlasting love. The 20th century brought about many changes in society, such as the emancipation of women and fancy technology that gives us an opportunity to communicate with the whole world in a matter of minutes.

Those are just few changes among many others we may look at later on. Clearly, the changes transform the existing belief (everlasting love) in a way we don't even realize, yet.

What we do realize is "everlasting love" is not happening any more. I can see and hear some people saying, “My grandfather and grandmother had a lifetime union etc.” They had no choice! We do! It was given to us with the freedom we've acquired for the last 50 or so years, something we take for granted. Creation of reality based on the outlived beliefs creates a conflict.

It is this need to resolve conflicts that prompts us to assess the grounds of belief, and so to turn to such reflections as will mainly occupy us on this site.

Belief is a foundation of "self." It allows us to go on in life and feel comfortable. That's why when we are in an environment that we know nothing about (example: immigrants), we feel lost and uncomfortable. It takes time and efforts to get acquainted with a new environment, and in the process, we create beliefs about that environment. When we get to the point where the environment grows on us, it means we invest no further effort; the belief is in place and being run automatically.

We could say belief is a mental construction of an idea that we are using to create and recreate the world around us. We have billions of them, yep. Some of them are deeply embodied, such as core beliefs (at this point of human evolution, they are not easily accessible or changeable, and mostly run our survival/biological mode); others are forming on a daily basis and dropped or changed easily. And there are beliefs that last for centuries, until the time comes when they don't serve us anymore, but rather, create conflicts. It takes a few generations for those beliefs to get transformed

Why Bad Beliefs Die Hard? ----> part 2