When we are born, we come into this life with a clean slate, to be filled in with our experiences, learnings, and understandings. The wonder years as amazing as they are, are also the years when our brains accept all information without question. So they are also crucial years to form all kinds of beliefs. Some beliefs may be from our own experiences, while others can even be formed while listening to a conversation between adults, or even from media. In fact, these days media also counts among the most powerful influencers in belief formation.
These beliefs can also start from the simplest of habits like putting on the right sock before the left. Or if the parents use harmless threats to get their child to do something. Maybe something like "If you leave your towel by the door, you'll have bad luck all day." Now the parent would have told that just to get things done, but for the child, one experience of bad luck after leaving the towel by the door reinforces the belief.
So each time the child leaves the towel on the floor, the child starts dreading or expecting something bad to happen. And our subconscious mind is powerful enough to attract what we expect. And with each experience, the belief is reinforced. Thus starting a loop of pattern and belief.
A lot of times these beliefs also come down to us across generations. They get modified or altered till no one knows how, where, and when was the belief born, under what situation and circumstance. The only evidence of the belief that remains is unexplainable patterns in our lives.
The good news however is that we can set ourselves free from these patterns and beliefs. It takes a bit of unraveling the complex web and sometimes the not-so-complex web. But once it is undone, our lives have so much more freedom.
If you are noticing certain patterns in your life and would like to see what belief is hiding behind those patterns, so you can set yourself free from both, it is possible.
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