Monday, November 10, 2008

Beliefs

Believe in yourself - If you wont, nobody else will...

2 comments:

Supriya said...

A scientific and logical definition of Belief - any cognitive content held as true by an individual.

However, it may not actually be the truth. It is only held as true, by the individual.

However do you know the immense effect that has on the individual's lives.

Our live is a mirror of the beliefs which we have...which lie deep within us... beliefs about which we sometimes are not even aware of, but which is constantly flowing in our blood.

Our life is like a chemical reaction and these beliefs are the catalysts. They are small components of the entire process but the end results and the time taken to reach the desired end results does depend on them.

Friends, I request you to add in this post, the most powerful and strong belief that you hold. Which you think is the foundation of your individuality.

You are most welcome to enter even the beliefs which might be negative and hence affecting your life adversely.We will discuss how to modify, add and delete beliefs for constant excellence in professional and personal lives.

As remember:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

rakesh said...


To achieve any goal in life, you must believe you are going to be successful. If you do not, you are likely to fail.


Why are beliefs so important?

We start creating beliefs as soon as we are born. Then, as we progress through life, we continue to create new beliefs and change old ones. We need to do this to make living in the world practical and easy to do.

I believe that when I get out of bed in the morning I will be pulled to the ground and not fly up to the ceiling. I learnt this when I was very young and now don't have to pay it a moments thought. Just as well - what I pain it would be if I had to check which way gravity pulled me every morning before I get out of bed!

When I lock a door, I turn the key towards the latch. When I unlock it I turn it towards the door. When I was young I developed the belief that Doors lock by turning the key towards the latch and unlock by turning the key towards the door. Now, when I open a new door, I don't have to consciously think about it, I just act in accordance with the belief I have. I turn the key towards the door. Simple and easy isn't it? That's the point of beliefs.

Is the world round or flat? It's round isn't it? But how do you know this? Isn't it just what people have told you? What proof do you really have? It looks pretty flat to me when I look out the window! If you did believe the world was flat, you might be quite concerned the next time you went out in a boat - you could fall off the edge of the world! Of course this was what people used to think, and it was a great barrier to exploration for many years. The beliefs people had directly affected their actions, and in this case limited their results.

Notice then that beliefs do not necessarily reflect the real world. Doors don't always unlock by turning the key towards the door. Beliefs about the world being flat were soon changed once explorers started to travel around the world. Beliefs do directly affect our actions though. Sometimes then, we take action even when our beliefs are wrong, and this can limit us. This is particularly true about the beliefs we have about ourselves and our abilities.

Beliefs about ourselves

Just as we act automatically within the limits of the simple beliefs we develop like the way to lock or unlock a door, we do the same with the beliefs we develop about ourselves. If we develop limiting beliefs about what it is possible for us to achieve, then our response will be to limit the actions we take. As a result we also limit the results we get.

If we believe we are likely to fail, our subconscious mind will get to work to create actions which support this. When the going gets tough (and it usually does at some point), we won't go the extra mile needed to succeed; an initial failure just supports our belief that we were going to fail all along and we give up.

On the other hand if we believe we are going to succeed, then we probably will.