Beliefs
_I: What is a belief?
_AM: Belief comes from Believe, which originates from the Latin concept of “having faith,” “thinking that something is possible.” Thus, Belief comes from “creentia” with its suffix “-ntia”, which is “the quality of thinking that something is possible”. Or in English “belief”, which comes from the Saxon roots “galaubyan”, and means “to keep what is dear”. Thus, both concepts imply sustaining over time what makes us feel that something moves us, that it is possible, something that we desire, esteem, want or love. If believing is a personal act of an individual in a specific circumstance of time and space, belief is a collective act that transcends time and space, that is, it crosses generations and goes beyond the individual. They are concepts that we adopt and inherit.
_I: So we all originate a belief by believing in something, which we pass on to future generations... Right?
_AM: Look at the sky and tell me what color you see.
_I: Light blue… Almost white.
_AM: And tell me, what do you feel when you see him.
_I: Breadth, open…
_AM: So, in your mind, the light blue color, and especially the lighter ones, will be related to spaciousness and openness. And when you make your children look at the sky, you will tell them: “look how beautiful the sky is, how wide the sky is.” And amazed by the contemplation, your children will look at you and imitate the emotion, naturally relating the sky to the blue color and the broadness.
_I: So what I observe and seems real, is something I actually believe.
_AM: Sure… The sky is neither wide nor blue. Someone, no matter how blue they see it, will surely say that the sky is blue. When it is rare to see the sky blue if you think about it, but they have been taught to say that the sky is Blue. Furthermore, the concept of sky does not exist, since what you see is only sunlight refracted on the atoms of nitrogen, oxygen and argon. Which accumulate due to pressure, so someone might think that more than amplitude, it is almost a prison of pressure.
_I: I understand… It depends on what I perceive.
_AM: It depends on what you get in your observation, but the emotion is what you expect it to be. Your body needs the security that what you see is like that. You can't explain it, you can only feel it. Therefore, it is based on faith. You can know now that the luminous sky you see does not really exist; It's just an atomic mirage. However, you will not feel the atoms, you will only feel the relationship between your body and what is observed. The emotion. And that emotion is what you transmit your gaze to others… You share it because you have “faith” in it, in what you see. Because it is difficult for a human to accept that nothing he sees or believes in really exists. The mind needs reference points, concreteness, in order to exist. This is why we force ourselves to believe in what we see and feel even if we somehow know that it is not real. Thus, the mind clings to what it perceives, and by transmitting it, it goes beyond the individual, it becomes a concept, and ends up being a belief.
_I: So, in a way, we are all constructs of beliefs, no one can escape beliefs because they are the result of the perception of the world.
_AM: You are the result of thousands of beliefs, which not only have to do with religious or sexist family mandates, but also with the way the world looks, what we like to eat, what we enjoy, hobbies, what interests us. know... Everything is beliefs. And it is not bad to have beliefs, it helps us to have previous tools, to not have to build ourselves from scratch in the vision of the world; It gives us innate abilities to perceive. Think carefully, that a human group in prehistory had developed the ability to hunt mammoths to survive. So, the only way to make the tribe survive was to transmit the belief that without mammoths everyone would die, because that animal had everything necessary to create clothes, houses, tools, sacred utensils. It was the basis of his divinity, his food, everything. Thus belief is a survival tool. Every family has since used the belief necessary for its transcendence. Some have seen that only men went hunting, and the belief was created that only men can work. Others saw violence in their family, and how more children were born through rape, and created the belief that the only way to generate offspring or love is with violence. Others saw that faith kept everyone together, and created religious belief to keep them in community.
_I: This is how the meaning of belief is understood to be what I want, or the quality of having faith that something will happen as expected. In other words, it is important to understand that what we today see as something negative that anchors us, at the first moment it emerged, was the way in which we saw that there were positive results, and we continue to imitate them generation after generation because it gave results.
_AM: Until they stop giving them. And that is when the need arises to free oneself from old beliefs, and create new ones. People who were told that only God would give them shelter, transmitted the belief and attitude that God is the only thing capable of saving us, and without realizing it they repeat: “thank God”, “Oh God”, “God willing”. ” (which also in Spanish they usually say from the Arabic language as “Hopefully” = in-sha'a Allah), “God bless you”, etc. Even if they are no longer religious. And when they seek to free themselves from this, they break the belief by creating a new one, projecting it onto aliens, or teachers, or angels, or science, or technology, or art... But the projection continues, because the belief is "thinking that something is possible”, and everyone, whether atheist or religious, or spiritual and naturalist, everyone has the hope that things can be achieved, that something can happen, change, improve. Everyone believes. When a person has a belief that hurts, that he repeats and has identified, what he needs is to create a new belief.
_I: But it's almost like repeating the same mistake.
_AM: If you do it from unconsciousness, it is.
_I: And how is it done from consciousness?
_AM: Freeing others from your belief. Reminding them that each one has their own point of view, and that it can change. Therein lies the key. A belief is a way of observing, of moving through the world, of having tools to act. But from Unconsciousness, Belief stops, it stops us in prejudice, preconception and worry, all the “pre”. That is, reaching a conclusion before even starting the action. If in the Universe the key to existence is constant transformation, and that transformation is energy in constant movement (and we had already said that energy is eternal, and we call eternity “Love”), this means that a belief that does not It allows itself to transform, therefore, it focuses on the vision of something previous and preconceived, it is a belief that consumes and densifies the energy of love, generating resentment, hatred, separation, conflict and structures of inherited patterns. For a belief to be useful, it must be flexible and honor what its name itself means: “loving the ability to think that things are possible.”
I understand. That is to say, it is not a question of eliminating or freeing ourselves from beliefs, but rather it is about honoring them for having been the ones that brought me here, and having enough confidence in myself to transform and update that belief in my time and in my life. current context, to the needs of my moment, to the perception of my environment, but at the same time, being able to allow others, future people, to create their own beliefs, freely, so that they do not conflict with their own. .
_AM: That is Unconditional Love. Respect beliefs, because they are all wills that things can happen. Have faith that it is possible, and I can share that faith, but freeing others to allow them to observe it with their own eyes.
_I: So, I can understand why children often come to break the belief patterns of their parents, and the more conflict and resistance their parents put in, the more painful the breakup will be, but because of this conflict, the belief pattern will pass anyway. , and the children will repeat the same as their parents. This is something very common that is seen in all family stories, when a boy was pressured by his parents in childhood to be a doctor, for example, even if he wanted to be an artist, and he suffered so much that he told himself : “I will not do the same thing that my parents did but with my children”, although later, he pressures his children to be artists because he could not be one, when perhaps his children want to be doctors.
_AM: That is transference by conflict. Beliefs are not transcended through breaks and ruptures due to conflicts between the parties, but by honoring and accepting that those were their beliefs, and that I must lovingly generate new ones, with the full awareness that mine must be free for those who come, allowing them turn.
_I: That is, recognizing that my vision is neither the most real nor the safest, it is simply one more. Don't get defensive, but take a constructive position. And how I do it?
_AM: First step: Recognize what your beliefs are. Take a piece of paper and a pencil, title it “BELIEFS / Mental Crown Chakra”. Below, divide the sheet into two columns, on one side put the title: NEGATIVE, and on the other: POSITIVE. And take some meditative time to write down all the beliefs you have that you consider negative, and on the other side all the beliefs you have that you consider positive.
_I: And then?
AM: There is no then until next month. Recognizing where all our beliefs are is enough work in itself. There are many, sometimes we don't even realize how many there are. Some can be very simple like: “I believe that the sky is Blue”, and others very complicated like: “I believe that Love is jealousy and possessing the other”.
_I: Perfect, then, the task for this month will be to analyze in detail all the possible concepts...
_AM: During Mental Week we will recognize our beliefs. During the Emotional week we will identify how we feel in them. During Physical Week we will manifest a new belief.
_I: Perfect… I'm going to make my list, and I'll meditate on them tonight.
_AM: Analyze each belief, be honest with yourself. This is a fundamental step to be able to later find balance with one's own Being.
_I: It's the most dense and personal part... But I know we can do it.
_AM: Welcome to the time of details, which make you who you are.
_I: I Analyze my Beliefs.