Beliefs: Their Definition, Origins, Types, and How to Be Free from Negativity

These beliefs affect the course of people and are presented as a controlling power over all their choices and decisions, either to raise the level of their lives or to lower it, to make them strong or fragile.

"I do not think I will succeed in that new project," "I am not good for marriage," "I am a weak woman in a male society, and I cannot achieve my goals," " I am a smoker and find smoking a real pleasure, and I cannot quit it," "I do not like mathematics, and I cannot attend a college based on this material," "I do not trust men and find them to be malicious and harmful creatures," "Money comes only after trouble, toil, and fatigue," "Rich people have no conscience and are far from moral actions," "I cannot be a good father," "I cannot deal with other people, since I was young and I find isolation better than social relations."

These beliefs and many others invade people's minds after they originate in the form of ideas from childhood and then feed them with feelings, experiences, and references to create beliefs and convictions firmly rooted in the human mind.

WHAT ARE BELIEFS? What impact does it have on our lives? How to change my negative beliefs and make positive ones? This is what we talk about in this article.

WHAT ARE BELIEFS?

It is the result of ideas cultivated since childhood, which are crystallized by the feelings, ventures, and experiences that a person experiences throughout their lives, leading to the creation of deep-rooted beliefs in the mind that cannot be changed.

Beliefs are fully responsible for your way of life. If you take firm steps toward your goal, this means that you adopt positive beliefs such as: "I can succeed," "I will seek to achieve my passion at all costs," and "There are no problems in life; there are only challenges." If you seek timid, hesitant, and slow steps towards your goal, you adopt negative beliefs such as: "I am unable to succeed," "The road is too long to reach my passion, and I do not have the patience to navigate it."

How do beliefs arise?

Convictions begin to emerge from the initial stage that a person experiences in their lives, which is the reception stage, where they are ready to receive a large number of ideas from different sources, such as parents, school, society, and the media, and then connect these ideas with feelings. They are stored in memory in the form of ventures and experiences to reach the stage of implementing these beliefs on the ground.

For example, a person may receive an idea such as "A man cannot be trusted" because of their mother's talk about their father and their parents' destabilizing relationship. Since the child does not have a logical trial of things, they adopt that idea, which comes from the parents, and connect it with a feeling, such as linking men to pain, as they grow up with this feeling every time they find their mother crying.

Then, they get confirmation of the idea through relatives, school, or the media, and repeating the concept to them from different sources creates their own knowledge and expertise. They build a firm experience that "a man cannot be trusted" and then translate those convictions into behaviors on the ground.

What are the beliefs?

1. Beliefs Absorbing Human Energy

These are the beliefs that restrict you from achieving your goals and constrain your will, such as: "I am a failure, and I am not useful for anything," "I do not know my message in life, and I cannot define my goals," "I do not have the power to prove myself among competitors," "I am an Eastern woman in a patriarchal society and I cannot achieve what I want, society oppresses me and does not appreciate me."

2. Human Energy Enhancing Beliefs

These are the beliefs that restrict you from achieving your goals and constrain your will, such as: "I am a failure, and I am not useful for anything," "I do not know my message in life, and I cannot define my goals," " I do not have the power to prove myself among competitors," "I am an Eastern woman in a patriarchal society and I cannot achieve what I want, society oppresses me and does not appreciate me."

How to free myself from negative beliefs?

1. Identify Negative Beliefs

Identify negative beliefs in your life, and put serious reasons for the need to change and replace them with positive ones, such as the belief: "I will not be able to build my own project, and I will stay in my fixed job, which is the safest for me." Adopting such a belief kills your life, as it limits your energies and creativity, distances you from the values of renewal and development, and turns you into a traditional, routine, and fragile human being.

2. Pain system

Feel the pain resulting from your continued adoption of negative beliefs to create a real desire for change, such as imagining your life a year from now, continuing to adopt your negative beliefs, and then imagining your life five years from now while you are still applying the same negative beliefs.

Pain has a lot of energy that pushes you to change. For example, someone was a heavy smoker, and their beliefs were as follows: “Smoking is a real pleasure,” “I smoke to rest,” “My father was a smoker, and their health was very good.”

This person suffered a heart attack as a result of the overdoses of smoking he was taking, and therefore, based on the pain resulting from the dangerous process he underwent, his beliefs about smoking changed to: "I am a non-smoker," "Smoking is a dangerous scourge that may kill you at any moment," "Although the health of my smoking father was good, this does not mean that smoking is allowed, my father may be lucky no more."

3. Identify positive beliefs and create a joy system

Here, a person must resort to the logical trial of things. If a female has a belief that a man cannot be trusted, then she must find the idea implanted in her mind that was the basis for creating such a belief.

She has to discover a specific idea she inherited from her mother and then examine the previous experiences that gained this belief. She has to analyze the relationship between her mother and her father, starting with the logical trial of things, such as saying: "Yes, it was not a relationship with a high level of maturity, and my mother may not have been able to deal with my father in the best way, which resulted in his betrayal of her, and my mother may have been able to deal with him but he betrayed her, but my father's betrayal of my mother does not mean that all men are betrayers, or all of them are malicious, there must be moral and loyal men."

Then a person makes new positive beliefs such as: "Males are beings like females, some of them good and some of them bad," "I am a good woman and able to attract a good man," then, she senses the joy and pleasure accompanying those beliefs, as she imagines herself a year from now and has achieved those positive beliefs and lived by them then she imagines herself and has applied the beliefs for five years from now.

4. Change

Here, a person must identify at least five sources that help them adopt positive beliefs. They may be psychology and self-development books, biographies of successful people, motivational intensive training courses, or wise people whom a person trusts.

They then identify the problems that can get in their way while adopting positive beliefs, such as the problem of the societal legacies of the fixed job, which hinders their progress towards making their own project, and the human being then makes appropriate solutions to problems, such as listening to the biographies of successful people who managed to break the traditional view of success and believed in their dream, challenging the limited societal view.

In conclusion

Your beliefs make your life, and your behaviors and decisions determine your choices, so pay attention to them, monitor them constantly, and protect them from the negativity that can follow them. You can live the paradise of the world by building positive beliefs about yourself, the past, the present, and the future, and about things.

Can you imagine the vast difference between the lives of two people who believe that "life is a house of affliction," while the other believes that "life is a house of evolution and pleasure"?