How To Overcome Deep Rooted Beliefs


by Enoch Tan - Date: 2007-01-02 - Word Count: 1001 Share This!

There are times when faced with a focused problem involving two contradicting believes, despite your efforts to eliminate the negative one, you can't seem to succeed because there is a sense of 'wrongness' to question the justification of that belief.

You understand that to move on you must overcome it but you can't seem to do so because it has always been in your experience of reality. You try focusing on the positive belief only but at the mean time the negative emerges into your awareness too. So how to remove such a deep-rooted belief?

The presence of conflicting beliefs doesn't necessarily stop you from achieving success. In the event of conflicting beliefs, the stronger ones will always override the weaker ones. It is your dominant beliefs that have the true authority over your reality creation.

You may not be able to get rid of the negative beliefs completely immediately and you don't have to. Change happens over time. What matters is which are the thoughts you hold in your mind more consistently than the rest. Ultimately it is all a matter of focus.

Keep your focus on what you want instead of what you don't want. Keep your focus on what is good and less on what is not good. Over time you will get where you want to be, more than where you do not want to be. Over time, your positive beliefs will become more and more real to you and your negative ones will just drop away thereby being automatically eliminated.

By doing courage and facing the past, you can turn negative into positive emotion by finding a different reference to alter your self identity belief. Although your new set of references is small at first, it will build up over time by creating more evidence to it. When your positive set of references becomes bigger than your negative set of references, the latter no longer matters.

If you want to eliminate your beliefs directly, you have to examine the roots of your beliefs. Know your meta beliefs (Beliefs about beliefs). You first have to find out the reason of a belief. And know the reason for the reason of that belief. Go back as far as you can until you get to the core. Look for the essence.

Before you decide to work on eliminating a belief, you first have to find out whether is it really a limiting belief? Depending on how you see it, the belief might be both advantageous and disadvantageous to you in different ways. When you make judgments about whether a belief is positive or negative, that is a meta belief.

Before eliminating a weakness one should see what is on the other side connected to it. It may be that the very weakness which we eliminate is not a weakness at all, but rather a necessary part of strength. For example, one who is tenacious may appear to be stubborn. One who is confident may appear to be cocky. One who is zealous may appear to be proud. One who has conviction may appear to be intolerant.

So often in our sincere desire to improve ourselves we roll into spiritual surgery to remove something that appears to be bad but which is connected to the very thing that makes us unique and successful. This is often caused by egocentricity and is self-introspection. Many individuals deteriorate because they become disenchanted with the very qualities that are necessary for success.

Your sense of 'wrongness' to question the justification of a belief signifies a belief you have about questioning that belief.

Ask yourself why do you have that sense of 'wrongness'. And the reason behind that reason. You have to tackle things on the upper levels before you can properly work with things on the lower levels. Every level is always governed by a higher level. Beliefs of a higher level govern beliefs of a lower level.

Beliefs come from perception. How you perceive a situation in the moment it happens will result in forming a belief about something because it. You may believe something as true as it has always been in your experience of reality. Well, how did you perceive your experience when it happened? What were you thinking about it?

How you perceive something is also the meaning you associate with it when it happens. Ask yourself "I saw this thing happen, so what did it mean to me? Why does it have to mean that way? What else could it also or actually mean?"

If you change how you look at it now, you will start to change your beliefs that formed from it. Start looking at it from more perspectives. Look for the one that empowers you instead of making you powerless. Try reframing the situation.

Your current beliefs are strong because they are attached to references that validate them. A reference is a situation you experienced which caused or resulted in the belief. When you choose to focus on your new beliefs instead, your mind will start finding references that validate them or it will literally create them in your reality. Therefore the new references you find will cause you new belief to free your from the old one.

A reference is also determined by perception. If you change the way you perceive the situation you experienced, you will also change the reference or find another one.

Finally, are your beliefs externally imposed or internally imposed? You have to ask yourself who is controlling your mind in that area? You or society? You have to be true to yourself. Start asking what do you really belief in even if you think it is wrong because others tell you it is wrong. You got to know what your real beliefs are.

So real growth comes from three things. Awareness, Authenticity and Focus.

Seeking awareness and understanding about how things work in your mind and reality, because self knowledge is personal power. Being authentic and looking for essence because that gets you to the core of things. Focusing on the correct things because what you focus on expands.


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