BELIEF SYSTEMS

You got to have belief, haven’t you, its so important it’s the one thing that holds us back or pushes us forward.  Interestingly it’s the one that most people can’t fake.

We have total belief in Math don’t we, and science which are both relevantly new terms in our evolutionary existence.  Non-tangible elements in our belief system like superstition have been around since day 1, and are often borne from stories or rumours in our relevant social systems, sub cultures, family histories and the like and reinforced in many people through self-fulfilling Prophecy’s and just pure belief in what we have learnt.

However just literally choosing a new belief and going with it is almost impossible for most people.  Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists can work with people to install new beliefs, there are cognitive behaviour therapies that work pretty quickly for people suffering from drug and alcohol problems.  However for the average person of the street forming new beliefs and working with then is very much impossible.

At first when people find a new belief, something they have read or something they have been told, the emotion that comes with the excitement of what that belief  is can carry them through.  However once that emotion has worn of, as emotions have a tendency to do.  We get used to emotions and there is an equilibrium system within us all that balances out our emotions, otherwise we might get stuck in an emotion.  When someone tells a joke there is a time in which your laughter peaks and then returns to normal, when we see a person laugh for to long for example its seemed weird, unusual and that’s because we that is most of us all equalise our emotions at the same speed.

This is why even when we have a fantastic belief that could carry us forward to unlimited success, the emotion that comes with that belief won’t last for ever because we hit problems and the emotion dies away and we are often left feeling out of our depth.

This is why if we want to change our belief system we have to do it slowly, and daily, first we create the seed, and then gradually feed and nourish that seed until it grows and becomes firmly implanted in our minds, in our thoughts and in our behaviour producing the results that we desire.