Beliefs control who we are now and who we will be. We create them and enable them to empower us or to limit us and imprison us.
When we were born we did not have any beliefs. Everything that we saw and felt was stored as true. After a while we started to compare and associate events to past experiences and began to label them. Beliefs are, simply, clusters of associated experiences or labels.
Once a belief is installed the unconscious mind uses it to filter off other ideas, to form a pattern of behavior and response (habit), to form a reference base for our judgments and decision making. Hence the unconscious mind will fight to keep it there forever because change of beliefs could mean a drastic revision of these patterns. |