CAN INFLEXABLE BELIEFS BECOME LIMITING
Reply by iamae, Saturday, February 19, 2011, 19:16:
Hiyas Pink and everyone,
I think we have a greater chance than ever of breaking down those belief systems now, because of the advances in awareness due to factors such as the internet making information available to us that was never there before.
You and I may debate over something that we perceive to be true, but it is unlikely that we cannot come to an agreement, even if it means seeking out further information in order to establish a point where we can agree.
I think what you are saying is that people fight to keep their belief systems rigid, defend them as they see them as part of themselves.
I can remember some time ago you and I having a debate on Coochie over the police, at this time my experience had been that the police had never helped me in situations I had got into in my life, it seemed that whenever I got them involved in some personal crisis I had, that things went from bad to worse.
You challenged me on this, telling me that my perspective was not balanced, and that for every bad Policeman, there was equally a good one, it was just that because of my experience I was meeting all of the bad ones, because I expected that they wouldn’t help me.
The debate over this became heated, but at some point during the discussion I agreed to open my mind to your balances perspective that we could have a good or a bad experience when dealing with the police.
Since that discussion, my reality has shifted, in that, whenever I deal with the police these days, I always find them helpful.
I have been thinking more and more lately about this age being the age of information. Imagine if you were to speak to Mozart in his time, and tell him that in a few hundred years’ time people everywhere would be listening to his music from home.
I can remember reading an article about Alexander Graham Bell saying that his life’s wish was that there would be a telephone in every city in the world.
With these expansions its possible for us to come into contact with so much more in our reality than it was ever possible to us before, but also in this there are so many more choices, opinions, slants we can have on any viewpoint.
We are awakening, or at least I am.
and now when i experience anger, in relation to defending my position on a matter that is occuring in my reality, I stop, look at what it is I am defending, and check myself to make sure that I have not come across one of these.
In actual fact, I think I can remember reading somewhere that said
If you are angry, then you are wrong.
It’s a point where the subconscious meets the conscious mind and fights with itself, that is what generates the anger in the first place.
I’m not sure myself if this is correct, but I certainly look at this aspect whenever I get angry now.
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