The Nature of Beliefs
We tend to have trouble really understanding what beliefs are and how they operate because we have a concept of beliefs as being singular or free-standing, when in fact they are dynamic and form unified themes that play out as tendencies that become expressed as full living scenario’s. Beliefs exist as a system that is not only supportive but completely interdependent.
Beliefs can be thought of as “creative forces” that form as subtle energy which exists in the natural orientation of being causal. They are dynamic patterns that are interwoven subliminally throughout the spiritual system (Soul) that forms a series of correspondences that work as a form of interpretation as an interaction of the conscious and unconscious mind in a form of dialoguing.
Karma can be thought of as beliefs (vibratory frequencies that we perceive as feelings) that exist as conscious intelligence that forms natural patterns through pre-disposition and tendencies. Tendencies act as principles that produce a common theme no matter what conditions or set of circumstances it expresses through. Feelings are to the Soul what food is to the body. Feelings have “wave-like” dynamic patterns that structure and order the “physical elements” to create subjective reality. Theses inherent patterns come into expression through a kind of “stop-down” process that shapes our interpretations that form our personal experiences that we then call “reality”. Beliefs are perceived as truth or fact and serve as the foundation for all perceptions.
Beliefs are “causal” because they initiate an entire dynamic process that determine both our conscious and unconscious intention, that shapes the quality of our attention, which shapes our interpretation which creates meaning and gives us a conceptual understanding which motivates and determines our behavior. Our behavior as an external expression, elicits responses (affects) of a corresponding nature. It stimulates qualities in others that are of the same type. Through this process, conscious intelligence (patterns) come into expression as a perceivable movie that we then identify with which simultaneously shapes our character and sense of self as the star in our own movie. We are simultaneously the writer, director/producer and main star in our own productions or thematic life experiences that form continuity through time and give us a well-defined sense of ourselves in relationship to others and the world in general. We create our self as something specific.
There is no such thing as “a” belief. There is only a point in the dynamic process where we are able to momentarily identify and recognize what stands out as a clear illusion. We gain a glimpse of a false interpretation of a common reality that serves as a reference point for perceiving other coherent illusions that spontaneously emerge out of it as a natural by-product. Because we can grasp it, we “point at it” and say “there it is, a limiting belief.” We then say we have identified a belief.
In this sense we are never able to technically speaking “change a belief”. What we can do, is use that reference point in the system to introduce a change that will serve to modify or transform the entire system. This performs a kind of “program upgrade” or participatory progression. In systems thinking, we know that there are key points within any system, that if altered will have the greatest impact on the whole system. Other points, when modified, do not serve to modify the system but are instead readily modified back into the original pattern through the system. The beliefs that we can pinpoint, that when altered have the greatest impact are what we traditionally refer to as core beliefs, or beliefs that first act to shape and then create a pathway of expression for our identity. Beliefs serve as a system of dynamic patterns that are interactive and interdependent; those then create concepts of possibilities for self-expression whose end product is consistent behavior. All behavior is an expression of the beliefs that motivate it. We behave “as if” are beliefs are real.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D (c)). CCHt., RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
Linda@creativetransformations.com
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