In this article we will look at beliefs in psychology - what they are. Let's find out what beliefs are and how they can be changed.
My mother thinks that there is no need ! Like, what can a stranger teach me?! At the same time, she is sure: her son is good; is engaged in psychology - doing a good job ; there are many people who need help - I (my son) will succeed !
Such are her beliefs. I have the same ones, except for one thing - that you don’t need to go to a psychologist. I am only convinced that you should not drag a person to him by force.
What are beliefs?
Beliefs are stable beliefs and knowledge formed during a person’s life, which no longer require additional confirmation and determine his actions and actions.
Beliefs are a person’s system of views on certain situations, form his attitude towards them and his reaction to them. By passing through all the information coming from outside, beliefs create a picture of human reality.
Our EGO is also based on a belief system (will open in a new tab). It really doesn’t like not knowing something, not being able to do something, or being wrong about something, so it relies on its worldview, formed by “favorite” and convenient beliefs.
- You are kind and cute
- But the star will tell you this:
- I am an unusual man...
Beliefs are stored in our subconscious, so discovering them is not always easy. We live, most often, without thinking about many of our beliefs and without even realizing their existence. Most beliefs are not “in plain sight”; they are not protruded or voiced in everyday life.
Beliefs are formed to simplify our lives. They allow us to quickly and correctly understand the flow of information coming from outside without the need to subject every word or situation to complex analysis. Thanks to our knowledge and beliefs, we know how we need to perceive and react to certain external signals.
Based on our beliefs, we can allow ourselves to experience psychological comfort and feel safe. It seems to us that we know everything and can cope with any (or almost any) situation. Especially if you have the conviction that “language will take you to Kyiv.”
What are Beliefs or Attitudes?
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A person’s beliefs are the inner core and character of a person.
This is what a person believes in, his attitude towards himself, his attitude towards the world around him.
Beliefs are the most important part of a person's personality. How his fate and life turns out completely depends on his internal attitudes and beliefs. Beliefs are also experience and knowledge gained as a result of life or transmitted, at the level of genetic microprograms, from previous generations. These attitudes, transformed into ideas, images and sensations, are for a person the main basis for making all his life decisions. Powerful positive attitudes make a person mentally strong with a powerful core inside, making him successful, effective, rich, happy. Weak attitudes and inadequate beliefs make a person’s inner core weak and infirm.
Life principles and qualities of a person’s character are built on fundamental beliefs, ideas and attitudes. Such beliefs can be called fundamental or core:
Your attitude towards the world around you
What do you see with your own eyes: Is the world dangerous or beautiful? Thousands of opportunities and success or is the world hostile to me and is it just suffering? Is the world filled with good or evil? Does good and evil exist in this world?
Self-perception, attitude towards yourself
Answers to the questions - who am I and why do I live? The answers to these simple but profound questions must be consistent with all internal attitudes. These are the basic and basic definitions that characterize a person. For yourself inside, for your own strong or weak position in life, you definitely must give answers to these questions. Am I an animal or just a body ruled by instincts? Am I divine, bright and strong in nature with energy with great potential? Maybe this is the matrix I don't really live?
What is a sense of life?
A normal, mature person should answer the following questions about life without hesitation: Is life a complete punishment or is it pain and suffering? Life and perfection for the true noble purposes of bringing life and love to the Universe? Is my life a gift from Fate, a unique opportunity for development, creation and struggle? NO!
What is happiness?
Naturally, every person should know the answers to the questions: what is Happiness? What is commonly called a happy person, satisfied with his life. What happiness consists of, its visual representation and the basics of a happy life.
Happiness is the coloring of a person’s emotional state at a given moment in time, characterized as the middle line of emotional memories and the sum of vivid positive and negative emotions recorded in deep memory. These are just our memories!
Having clear life guidelines is the road to my Happiness, here is the action plan, here are my main criteria. Here is my insurance and here are my preserved pieces of happy moments. Here's my next goal. I am my persistence - like a character trait!
Relationships with other people in society and society
Mandatory attitudes that already exist within you are your attitude towards your environment. How to behave with your surroundings? Do people around me wish me harm and should I strike first? And of course you are right! There are completely different people, there are worthy ones and there are scoundrels. With whom to communicate and link your destiny? Is your attitude towards society that there is nothing good in society or vice versa? From these answers a person’s worldview is built. These answers and attitudes determine a person’s personal qualities and life principles. This determines whether a person is deceitful or honest, responsible or irresponsible, brave or cowardly, strong in spirit and will or spineless and weak.
Conscious and subconscious beliefs
Conscious beliefs are written in a person’s head and most often they can be characterized as declared. Subconscious beliefs are more truthful, they are implemented in a person’s life, and work at the level of his qualities, emotions, reactions and habits. To change the quality of life, it is IMPORTANT to CHANGE habits and attitudes - subconscious ones. They are the ones who determine 98% of all your actions, life, destiny, social status, happiness.
You have probably often met people who consciously know and understand everything and how to live correctly, and what is right to believe, and what needs to be done to be happy, successful, joyful, strong, rich, kind, brave. However, they cannot realize anything in their lives, remaining externally and internally poor and weak.
There is a difference in beliefs; some beliefs are recorded in the subconscious, while completely different ones are realized in the conscious mind. The contradiction between conscious and real behavior gives rise to many contradictions in a person. This behavior is called declared behavior. Closely related to a person's beliefs are various habits.
Positive and negative beliefs
Positive beliefs include all beliefs that give true joy and a state of happiness, strength, confidence and energy. Belief in success, high efficiency and positive results. Positive beliefs are always supported by a person’s feelings and the response is gratitude and love from other people, spiritual and material rewards. Internally a person grows and he is Happy. Positive beliefs are strong, complete and adequate answers to life’s most important questions. These beliefs cause Joy and a surge of vitality, remove restrictions, suffering, pain, and maximize the potential of the person himself.
Negative beliefs are inadequate ideas and attitudes. These attitudes and inadequate ideas lead to loss of joy in the heart, to pain and suffering, to loss of strength and energy. Negative beliefs and emotions ultimately lead to the destruction of a person’s life. Negative beliefs can be internal and inherited, but most often they are brought in from the outside. Contagious negative beliefs constantly accompany our information background. Unfortunately, this negativity and attitudes are contagious. A simple example is the signs that people constantly reproduce in their ears and try to recall them. These beliefs and folk superstitions greatly influence and harm our lives. All bad subconscious attitudes must be identified and replaced with positive ones.
Test your subconscious attitudes
To check your settings recorded in the subconscious, ask yourself questions, say to yourself or out loud, the beginning of the installation, for example:
- For me the World is......
- I live for......
- The meaning of my life is….
- For me, Happiness is...
- People around me...
- Love is…
Listen to yourself, write down your answers, analyze your answers and attitudes. An important point is that this must be done in writing. Answers must be sincere! Listen to yourself, your subconscious, what thoughts will follow the beginning of the phrase. What definition of the World will your subconscious give? YOUR amazing inner world will unfold before you! Do an analysis, read the correctness of the settings, if the settings and definitions are incorrect, you need to work on them. Remove the negative, replace with the positive.
How are beliefs formed?
Most of our beliefs are formed in childhood, on the basis of adopted parental beliefs and attitudes, other information received and personal experience acquired.
Our entire life ultimately depends on our beliefs - academic success, career, material well-being and family happiness.
Parental instructions and attitudes play a special role in the formation of beliefs. For a child experiencing a completely new world, the parent is perceived as God. He knows everything, can do everything and will save you from everything. Therefore, most of the information received from parents is taken on faith and becomes the truth for the child.
Some beliefs are formed through one's own life experiences. The child develops, learns everything new, acquires skills, finds himself in different situations, learns to react correctly to them, and accepts the appropriate knowledge and rules that add up to the general system of his beliefs.
In adolescence and adulthood, a person continues to constantly acquire new knowledge. He studies, reads books, communicates with other people. Knowledge that he “likes” and fits into the picture of his reality becomes his beliefs.
Some beliefs may disappear or be replaced by others in the course of life. Some do not change throughout life. The older a person is, the more difficult it is usually for him to change his beliefs.
What types of beliefs are there?
“All men are assholes,” 18-year-old Tanechka is convinced. Yes, and mom said so... Dad abandoned them with mom when Tanya was 2 years old. My stepfather drank a lot, was very rude and raised his hand to my mother. When he died, my mother dated other men, but it didn’t come to marriage.
“The world is so beautiful and amazing!” - Marina is confident. She works as a biologist at a research institute.
And I am convinced that “only one who knows how to defeat an opponent, first of all in himself, becomes a champion.” It’s a bit long, of course, but I remember - it’s still a conviction! This was written all over the wall in the pool where I trained 2 times a day for 10 years. Therefore, I believed in it long before I understood the meaning of such wise words.
Beliefs, like any words, can be very diverse. Some beliefs are common to many people, for example: “it’s easy to catch a cold in a draft.” Some are more rare, for example: “if you pick up a toad, you will get warts.” And some are very rare or even isolated: “there are ears above the forehead.”
As we have already found out, beliefs arise with some meaning in order to bring us some benefit. Some beliefs played a useful role in childhood, but have been preserved and continue to serve us in the future. Often doing a disservice.
For example, so that we would not fool around by riding the elevator, my mother convinced us that “the elevator is dangerous.” Elevators often get stuck and fall down, killing people. We stopped riding in elevators as children, but as adults we developed an unreasonable fear of elevators or, in general, a fear of any enclosed spaces (claustrophobia).
Thus, the belief that elevators are dangerous became harmful and unnecessary for us as we grew up. And we can have a lot of similar beliefs.
Look at your life. Does everything in it happen the way you want? If not, then you have beliefs that are preventing you from making your life the way you want.
We live the way our subconscious wants (will open in a new tab). It is this that determines 90% of all our actions and our lives. And the subconscious is filled with beliefs. It turns out that everyone has exactly what they want in their life. Only he himself is not aware of this.
Realizing that you have any harmful beliefs, you can consciously remove these beliefs or replace them with others that are more useful.
You can quickly identify beliefs that are harmful to you in my sessions
The meaning of the word conviction
Gromeka, a well-known conviction, cannot write an article in which not only his conviction would not appear until the last chapter, but even the opposite conviction would still be visible.
For example, if a person believes in a belief, then he cannot admit to himself that he simply believes in a belief: after all, it is virtuous to believe, and not to believe in a belief, therefore, if you believe in a belief, and not just believe, then you are not virtuous.
For you, gentlemen, it is not enough to form a conviction in your conscience, you must realize this conviction in motives clear to outsiders, which could be verified, discussed and evaluated from all sides; you are forced to base your conviction on those elusive, but often very decisive data that produce in the judge this or that conviction about the case; you must find grounds for your verdict that can be laid out on paper, that can be assessed and verified if one or the other party fighting before you begins to confirm or refute the fairness of your verdict in the highest court.
The identification of historically unresolved problems is aimed at determining the composition of studies of future social forms, resulting from the definition of these factors. The methods consist of using a number of principles: faith in humanity; refusal to criticize someone's ideas, actions and results; the belief that there are always reasons that determine ideas, actions, events; the belief that any segment of history can be considered as a consciously conducted experience; the belief that historically unresolved problems must be solved; and others.
Butler and Shaw had instilled in the general public the belief that schools were no good, and Theodore was imbued with this belief quite early and did not attend school very diligently.
When a certain view or belief is suppressed, it enters the subconscious, no longer being just a belief, but is perceived as the reality of that person.
This belief - if you can even call it a belief - has nothing to do with sensory perception at all.
Regarding the latter, perhaps it is appropriate to say here that the motives of social justice and international brotherhood, which were more and more consistently supplanted by the motives of statism with their empty vows to the ideals of the revolution and the Bolshevik Party (or simply the party, since there were no other parties), these motives were present in a book not as an obligatory side dish, without which it simply would not have come out of print, but the conviction (or self-conviction) of the author, who recognizes them as a historical fact and the driving force of society - so, in such a Marxist-Leninist package, the Iflian (as they began to be generally called) generation the author (although he studied at other universities) received the reality given to him in sensations.
Limiting beliefs - what are they?
The purpose of limiting beliefs is to keep us away from everything new, unknown and excessive. If in childhood the parents said to the child: “Why did you choose such a big verse for yourself? You won't be able to learn it! Choose a smaller poem!”, then the child will most likely form the belief: “you shouldn’t take on something new and difficult - nothing will work out.”
Such a belief will limit this person in life, will not allow him to reveal all his abilities and realize himself to the fullest. He will refuse an interesting but difficult project proposed to him. He will not try to implement his idea if it seems to him that it is not easy to do.
The belief “the best is the enemy of the good” can prevent you from realizing the desire to do something even better. “Better a bird in the hand than a pie in the sky” helps some women endure harmful and humiliating relationships.
Beliefs about money
It’s not bad when beliefs limit us in drinking alcohol: “drinking a lot is harmful.” It’s worse when beliefs limit the amount of money you have, which you constantly lack: “money is evil.”
Those who grew up in the Soviet Union remember the lines of the poem: “no matter how much a rich lazy man smells, he smells very bad, guys.” No one wanted to be a rich quitter back then. Then, of course, many were able to cope with this belief... And some still believe in it.
Everyone has heard the expression “money doesn’t buy happiness” since childhood. If you take it on faith and make it your conviction, then it will be difficult to get rich. It is also difficult to be happy knowing that “only fools are happy.”
In general, if you constantly lack money, it is worth working on your limiting beliefs regarding money and material things in general. But first, of course, you need to discover them in yourself.
Where do people's beliefs come from?
Since a person has a certain number of years behind him, he has encountered various situations and participated in public life, and he develops a certain confidence that everything in this world should function according to a certain scenario. This is our conviction, which is often explained only by past experience, and not by modern realities. Evidence is superfluous here, because for someone who is one hundred percent sure of something, it simply does not exist.
It is not difficult to determine a belief and its nature: it originates in our thoughts, billions of which linger in our heads for a matter of seconds, sometimes hours, days and even months or years. But decades must pass - and if one of the thoughts, confirmed a hundred times by your and outside experience, does not leave your head, and you constantly listen to it - this is a belief.
