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Beliefs form Your life!

In the Middle Ages enlightened circles started using metallic forks as cutlery. The forks were forged out of either iron or silver. At first they were two-edged. The tale tells us the forks were soon ostracized because they were believed to be tools of the devil. The belief was based on the fact, when forks were beginning to be widely used, people started dying from poisonings or inflammations caused by mouth diseases. The forks were so sharp, when people used the utensils a bit too eagerly, they pierced their gums. Because mouth hygiene wasn’t yet on the level we have these days, the gum cuts caused inflammations leading to death. The devil has many means available!

Beliefs determine the way we relate to situations and through this our choices in them. What exactly are beliefs and where do they originate?

A belief is a strong feeling something is true, although it hasn’t been scientifically proven. To an individual, a belief has the same value as truth. Therefore beliefs determine the way we relate to our surroundings and ourselves. If the quality of our lives depends on choices and beliefs determine our choices, beliefs and changing our beliefs must be given particular attention. Your beliefs determine whether you feel like a good lover, an affectionate father, a wanted employee, trusted expert, reliable affiliate and so on. Behind every decision there’s a belief. If you succeed in doing something in a new way, it means you’ve succeeded in changing your belief.

The changing of beliefs doesn’t necessarily happen consciously. It may well be, you are imperceptibly conditioned to new beliefs. For example in a new work place where there is a different working culture to your former workplace. Things are done differently than what you’re used to and soon you’re a part of the new culture and the new culture is a part of you. Or after a marital crisis you encounter a new person, who gives you faith again to believe again you’re worthy to be loved, cared for and trusted.

It’s quite frightening our brains have already created a consistent structure, by which decisions are made in our innermost being. The decision making power is so strong; it strives to determine our thoughts, feelings, interpretations, evaluations, and actions. Do you ever even wonder why you choose what you choose and how this process occurs? Isn’t it true that Success comes specifically from successful choices, so this question is of uttermost importance. Quality choices are, by the way, often a result of good judgment and this in turn, is mostly based on experience. In your experiences there’s a lot, which hasn’t worked. Therefore it’s important to detach oneself from failures.

Which one is more important to you: the fear of losing or the joy of achieving? The answer tells a lot about your beliefs. You see, the hardest thing for a human being is to surrender ”achieved benefits”, the experience level at present feels safer than the seemingly unsure promises of the future. The visible life you have right now feels much more real than what is in the future. Yet both dimensions are just as real. The law of cause and effect works: What you sow today, you will reap tomorrow, or at least sometime in the future.

The true desire to grow as well as courage is weighed when one has to leave behind something that seems secure and functioning in one’s emotional world.