Are you aware of your Belief System?
Many people do not even realize that they have a belief system or paradigms. Usually, they are inherited or learned through repetition. The media often tricks people into beliefs and mind programs, and even lies often enough repeated can become beliefs. Repetition also can be used for good, to get rid of them again, but with awareness. Often, we inherit these beliefs from people who also inherited them and do not even know if they are true. It can be very tricky to discover and eliminate them, and they affect your whole life.
See The Ruler Of Your Marvelous Mind and What Are Paradigms?
Another guest post by our friend Ryan Biddulph where he shares his story and experience about belief systems.
Thank you, Ryan
Who Gave You Your Belief System?
Did your parents give you your belief system? How about your friends? Did politicians give you your belief system? Did the government condition you to believe what you believe? How about teachers? Did teachers teach you what to believe? Perhaps big pharma conditioned you to believe what you believe? Maybe the military conditioned you to believe what you believe? What about organized religion? Did your church program you to believe certain things?
I recall one schoolboy experience from my childhood vividly. One of my friends walked down the hallway with his hands stuffed into his pockets. Our teacher – a Carmelite nun – told him only rich people stuffed their hands into their pockets to keep their hands on their money. My friend told the nun he was rich – his family was wealthy, owning a massive mansion – and the nun became agitated.
Anyway, I picked up some poverty conscious beliefs from the nuns at my grammar school. The nuns taught us how to be compassionate, caring and kind, in some regards. But we also learned how money was the root of all evil, how rich people were dishonest, and how it was virtuous to be poor, from the nuns, too. Ouch. I slammed into big business problems as a newbie blogger 12 years ago because my business and money belief systems still had some poverty conscious thoughts and feelings kicking around, influencing my decisions and fueling my struggles.
Expanding Awareness
Meditating led to me expanding my awareness. Expanding my awareness allowed me to face, feel and release faulty, fear-based belief systems I acquired from people in worldly authority, including parents, teachers, and government, among others. Releasing fear-filled belief systems freed me to see reality, to seize truth, and to live my dreams. But I had to honestly observe my belief system to be aware of the genuine thoughts and feelings kicking around in my mind.
Who programmed you to believe what you believe? Why did these individuals program you to believe what you believe? Who taught you from energies of fear and manipulation to control you? Who taught you from energies of love and detachment to free you? Ruthlessly question both every belief and every human who programmed you to believe as you do in order to see who used fear and who used love. Face, feel, and release fear-based beliefs imprinted upon you by people who sought control over you. Release fear belief systems to see clearly. Banish fear belief systems to live from love. Eradicate fear belief systems to seize the truth.
No one relishes ruthlessly questioning their belief system. Observing your mind as it feels highly uncomfortable. But doing inner work to face, feel, and release fears lets you reprogram yourself to adopt an empowering, loving, freeing belief system. Surround yourself with loving, compassionate people to sponge up their high-energy belief system. Where your attention and energy goes, grows.
Be gentle with yourself.
Imagine spending 40 years working a job you disliked. As you dissect your belief system, you realize that you worked a job you disliked for 40 years because of a fear-based belief imprinted onto your mind via your parents. Will your ego feel like you wasted 40 years of your life? Probably. Will you feel depressed for a little bit? Likely. Calmly, gently feel any fears arising as your belief system crumbles. Seeing reality for the first time by owning how you saw and lived in fear-based illusions for decades feels overwhelming for most human beings.
Develop *your* belief system. Do your own thinking by disowning beliefs doled out to you by people who offered advice based on fear, manipulation, and control.
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Hi Ryan and Erika,
I was programmed the day I incarnated to this planet. From parents, Catholic school, government and so on. But I was lucky. I found this all out in my teens. It puzzled me. By the time I was in my early 20’s I had to be de-programmed. So I sought out therapy, rapid eye movement therapy (worked wonders) and most of all going into myself and finding. my own truth. It took a while, but the freedom of fear based crap is easy to ignore.
Hi Donna,
We all are programmed from begin on and even earlier. Even our cells have memory.Great that you found out about and could de-program. It is good to even realize these programs, many people do not. For me it was no other choice than to look at them because we often changed places and I went in a foreign country in a time were there was no phone, no internet and letters took weeks to get delivered. So you have to see not only your own paradigms, but also other peoples and cultures and begin to question. finding out about these programs never ends 🙂 I have been 13 month with Bob Proctor and his focus is very much on paradigms and programs we have. He said after more than 50 years working on his beliefs he still finds some. Same with me, many are not very impactful or even fun, but they show up if we are aware. I just also attented a 3 day event with Mary Morrissey that also had a lot to do with releasing limiting beliefs.
Thank you for your insights and comment
Erika
Donna good for you for de-programming yourself in your 20’s. Still some heavy-based programming in certain areas of my life in my late 40’s but I am releasing it, slowly but surely.
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Hi Ryan,
I find it sometimes astounding what programs we all have. Great if you can get rid of the heavy ones that impact life very much. But the de-programming never ends. Here, a fun little story Bob Proctor told. One day he went with his wife grocery shopping and they saw beautiful fresh Turnips and bought them. On the way home they discussed how to cook them. She is from the south of US and said ,we use the greens and give the roots to the pigs. He is from Canada and said ,we use the roots and give the greens to the pigs. So they started to argue a bit until they realized that this too is a program, a belief. For me as a farmer and gardener it would be, we can eat all of it. 🙂 Bob said that even after over 50 years working on this, still paradigms show up.
Keep on de-programming
Erika
Hi Erika,
Your comment is timely because I had some major de-programming to do this past week. Major, LOL 😉 Hearing how Bob Proctor is still de-programming as a 50 year guy gives me greater peace of mind. Enlightened beings are about the only folks who need not change belief system. Everyone else definitely needs to, over decades. But it is so much fun and freeing as you become more awake 🙂
Ryan
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Ryan, Bob Proctor is 86 years old and still finds limiting beliefs he said. He is one of the first self-help gurus after Earl Nightingale, and was together with others in the movie Secret. He is not enlightened, but got over time more and more spiritual. So there is hope if he finds still limiting beliefs, after more than 50 years teaching how to get rid of paradigms. 🙂
To our becoming more awake 🙂
Erika
“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose!” ― Bob Proctor
“Faith is the ability to see the invisible and believe in the incredible and that is what enables believers to receive what the masses think is impossible.”. Bob Proctor
Rethinking those beliefs that come so hard and fast as we look around at events of the day. We all have opinions, but are they founded on correct values? I’ve learned that often my basis for beliefs is wrong, or at least questionable, so I have to rethink them and make decisions.
Those decisions may be different than I thought they would be.
Tonight for dinner, my daughter made “poor man’s stroganoff” it’s a beefy gravy over noodles. But halfway into making it, she realized she was out of noodles, out of potatoes, and anything else she’d ever put the gravy over. So she came and asked for alternatives. I suggested the macaroni in a box of mac and cheese. She had two partial boxes left and mixed them up for the noodles. Tasted the same.. Nothing different there. But the noodles were different, so the kids argued that it wasn’t made right. Sometimes you get the same results with different foundations.
We have to think for ourselves. Thank you Erika, for this amazing bit of thoughtful concept excchange.
Hi Jan,
you are right, we have to think for ourselves and ask questions. And thank you for your story about cooking dinner. This reminds me of an old family story I heard :
A new son in law came into a family and noticed that the mom was cutting off the ends of a pot roast before putting it in the oven to cook for dinner. He asked his wife, she had seen her mom do this many times before but had never asked why. So this time the young couple asked and the mom replied, “I don’t know why I cut the ends off, but it’s what my mom always did. Why don’t you ask your Grandma?”
So they called the grandmother, “Grandma why do you cut the ends off the pot roast before cooking it?” The grandmother replied, “I don’t know. That’s just the way my mom always cooked it. Why don’t you ask her?” Now they called the great grandmother, who was living in a nursing home and asked her the same question. “Why did you cut the ends off the pot roast before cooking it? And she said, “When I was first married we had a very small oven, and the pot roast didn’t fit in the oven unless I cut the ends off.”
Maybe you heard this story before?
Both the stories are a good example about habits and belief systems, but in yours a change happened.
Thank you for your story, thoughts, and comment
Erika
What a nice text. Your information about this was really complete and excellent. Your success is more every day. Thank you dear friend
I didn’t knew about that, and never thought about who gave me my belief system Erika! SO this post was very interesting to me
Hi Karla,
I think it is important to know and think about. I am glad you found it interesting.
Thank you
Erika