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Originally Posted by cylon  Another thing I'm realizing, the beliefs are really habits. They just happen. We think them so much that they take on a life of their own. Maybe when you start breaking the habit, even just one of them, the whole structure the habits are interconnected with can crumble and be rebuilt in the NOW. |
Beliefs tend to be in clusters and support each other. To borrow an analogy from the book I mentioned, imagine a table with many legs representing your belief system in a certain area, a 10 legged table would be pretty solid, now start taking them out one at a time and as you do the whole table gets weaker and soon it will no longer support your reality. If you just try and add new beliefs to old ones (like with affirmations) it would be like trying to replace a 10 legged table with a 1 legged one, your mind will stick with the most comprehensive, strongest beliefs.
beliefs are mental constructs, habits, actions, physical conditions...ect are results of the beliefs , but yes I agree that you can work backward, it is just harder to force actions until beliefs line up with them.