A lot of people (especially woman) have phobias of spiders. Even when they know that a a little spider can't harm them in any way, those people have a deep believe that the spider is danguarous that may be so strong that the person panics.
No amount of knowledge over spiders will change the belief.
Since the belief has negative consequences for you, you may want to change the belief.
Sure getting knowledge that small spider aren't harmful is a good first step.
And you still need to make the additional step of changing the belief.
Sure you can also live with your spider phobia, it won't kill you.
a) You might go to a therapist and talk about the phobia and understand it. To remove a phobia that way takes years.
b) You might also go to a hypnotherapist and let him change the belief in a few hours.
Do you agree that b) is more efficent than a), focusing on changing the belief is more efficent than focusing on "understanding".
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