All we hear is an opinion, not a fact, and all we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marc Aurelius.

My first book explains how to erase one's beliefs and thus how to clean one's mind and body from their conditioning, barriers, negative limitations and all the mental pollution that comes from our hyper-connected environment. This is the fundamental basis of my working method.

I show in this book how one can very simply erase these sentences, these interior programs in a style accessible to all.

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EXTRACT

A belief is programming, its mode of operation is to alter our way of thinking, reacting and acting.

The strength of a belief lies in the fact that it is believed to be true.

A scientific and rational mind must reject unfounded beliefs, but do you really do?

This is not a book « New Age » on the power of the mind. Not a book about positive thinking. This is a practical work dedicated to beliefs and their influences. I intend to show you how one can undo one's beliefs and how that can contribute to the improvement of your life.

This topic has already been visited by various authors and many times. This book is different because it will not give you keys to better use your beliefs, or to think positively. This book will not give you other beliefs, supposedly better, my goal is the exact opposite.

This book is there to allow you to find a way out of your unconscious programming.

As a therapist, I try to help my patients find their way, free themselves from their physical, emotional and mental problems. As part of this work, I give a lot of courses to teach those who wish my method of working on beliefs and creative mechanisms.

This book is the culmination of several years of teaching. It is the first chapter of a more comprehensive method of personal development, transformation and healing.

The work I'm going to propose to you is mostly practical. I will invite you to do different exercises that you can use as a kind of anti-virus to clean your « operating system », i.e. your mind, your being and your body.

But before I explain to you how to do this, I must first explain to you what I mean by the word « belief ».

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FAC AND A CROYANCE?

The facts are rare. A fact, a scientific truth is hard to find. Science knows the axioms, which are mathematically indemonstrable facts but which can nevertheless be observed systematically. For example, the shortest path between two points is a straight line. An axiom is a fact because it is verifiable in every experience you have.

Other facts can be found, most of which are scientific truths that have been demonstrated by a considerable number (tens of thousands) of iterations (repetitions):

• « The earth revolves around the sun » is a fact.
• « The gravity exists » is a fact.

A fact can be questioned when our measuring instruments improve, when our scientific understanding of the world is making progress. Before the astronomical progress, the sun turned around the earth. It was a verifiable fact every day. So even a fact is not as solid a certainty as it seems. But at least we can count on it to build something and find some security.

Any fact which is not identical to each observation (iteration), and whatever the number of observations, is what I call a recurrence. An event that repeats 98 times out of 100 is a statistical truth. However, this is not a fact.

Deducing a general truth of recurrence is what I call a belief.

Belief is a cousin who has been confused by scientific fact. It has the flavor, the appearance but it is certainly not a fact. To adopt a belief, we need only on-said, personal experience and biased deductions, « I read in a medical journal », of « I saw it on TV. » and statistics. We rely on few repetitions to prove our beliefs.

A belief is an idea, a concept, an opinion, something we want to defend. There are probably as many beliefs as there are« objects » in our existence. « Objects » in the broad sense: an idea, an emotion, a person, a tree, a table...

A belief is a peremptory statement.

Some beliefs accompany a fact and stick to it like a plastic film. For example, « believe » whether the earth revolves around the sun or you can « believe » gravity. That does not make the phenomenon exist. And if you stop believing, the fact still exists. It is therefore easy to mislead and mix facts and beliefs.

Examples of beliefs:

The sentence « A mother still loves her child » is a belief. Why? Because it is a recurrence but not a systematically verifiable fact. There are exceptions to this sentence, as police and social workers are well aware.

The sentence « I suck » is a belief. You can believe it, but you can't prove it scientifically.

The sentence « Life is hard » is a belief, it is based on multiple recurrences and on the difficult experiences of our ancestors but it is not a scientific fact.

« This medicine always works » is also a belief. The degree of effectiveness of a drug is expressed in %. When it reaches a certain level of efficacy with minimal side effects it can be marketed. It is only a recurrence.

« I am convinced that the earth revolves around the sun » is a belief. The way one expresses a fact reveals belief. Everything is in the use of words.

« It is better to give birth by the lower way than by the caesarean section » is a belief. There may be statistical studies that prove this, but which says statistics says recurrence, so there are exceptions. The attempt to defend this claim is proof that a belief exists.

If you think about it, you may realize that there are two types of beliefs. Those who are proved by fact and those who are not.

A belief proved by a fact is acceptable, but useless in the sense that the fact exists by itself. It therefore should not exist either. You may see it as a sentence polluting your mind.

A belief that is not proved by a fact is false or even harmful because it restricts your reflection. It should therefore not exist.

So my point is to help you erase your beliefs.

What do you say?

 

WHAT ARE BELIEFS?

To erase your beliefs, you need to understand what I'm talking about, who is « adversary ». So I will describe them in detail. This will show you that most people do not define beliefs as I do. This will save us a few quiproquos.

NATURE OF BELIEFS

First of all, one very simple thing must be clarified: beliefs are sentences that we say of think.

Beliefs are ideas, programs, concepts that we have in ourselves, in our body, in our mind, in our unconscious mind. You can perceive them in your thoughts and in your words, when they arise from unconscious to conscious.

A belief is always an affirmation.

Example

« I suck at math. »

« Nobody loves me. »

« Life Is Unfair »

Conversely, the finding of a state or emotion is not a belief but sometimes the difference is subtle. One « I feel tired » is the expression of a state and a « I feel sad » the expression of an emotion, but a « I think I will never recover from this wound » is a belief.

All you say is therefore not a belief, but all the statements made in « I'm like that, I believe this, I'm certain, it's my conviction, it's like that, I'm convinced that, it's not possible, I don't believe it, I feel like... », are.

If you listen to yourself, you will easily find your beliefs. And it's even easier to find them when you listen to someone else. However, it is likely that you are not able to understand how pervasive these beliefs are in our lives. And, first problem, by not conceiving it, you can't see them for what they are.

Let us discuss together some characteristics of beliefs:

1. The proper of a belief is that it is believed to be true

This axiom is fundamental. A belief is not confined to being an idiotic superstition. Most of the time, a belief is based on experience, recurrence or scientific fact.

Our need to generalize and be right is what drives us to create or adopt a belief.

Human society is full of beliefs that may seem true or "very reasonable":

 Examples

• Men are stronger than women.
• Men are rational and women are intuitive.
• Man is superior to animal.
• Suffering is there to make us evolve.
• Money does not bring happiness.
• Spontaneity is dangerous.
• Smart people are more likely to succeed in life than others.
• Life is hard, you always have to fight.
• Punishment is necessary to understand one's fault.
• If people had no more beliefs, there would be no morality.
• If people no longer believed in good or evil, it would be anarchy.

Year

Do you agree with one of these beliefs?

If so, why do you agree? What is your evidence that these beliefs are true? A lived experience, the experience of a third party? Try to give these statements a score on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 = FALSE, 10 = totally TRUE. Among these beliefs, is there one that was true to you before but not anymore? What changed your mind? Note that it is possible to give a gradation to the true.

2. We want to believe that we must believe

In general we live in a society where beliefs are perceived as necessary.

Examples

• You have to believe in yourself.
• To believe is to succeed
• To believe is to put every chance on his side.
• To succeed you have to believe it.
• To pass this exam, you have to believe it.
• To get that job you have to believe it.
• Those who fail are those who do not believe enough that they will succeed.
• You have to believe in something.
• Believe me to be safe.
• My beliefs are part of my identity.
• To believe allows me to know the difference between good and evil.
• You have to believe that it works.
• You have to think positive, you have to believe positive.

As many sentences as you can hear that and there in the mouths of your neighbors, friends, family or yourself. These statements are beliefs. But are they true? What is their relevance?

I guess you've already failed in something when you were sure to succeed or vice versa, it's likely that once in your life you've achieved something without really believing it. If exceptions exist, why believe in such things?

 Year

– Why do you keep believing that you have to believe?

– Why do you think success depends on the strength of belief?

– Do you believe in positive thinking and if so why?

– Can you justify this by a scientifically proven fact?

« You have to think positive or you don't have what you want in life » is a belief. Nothing can prove it scientifically, but this belief has spread around the world as a virus. I see two negative aspects.

On the one hand, this belief pushes us to constantly monitor our thoughts so that our thoughts are always perfect. It is difficult to find peace of mind.

And it also pushes us to push back our emotions and negative thoughts somewhere. But where do we put all this back? Is this really gone? Where do we store this negative inside us?

On the other hand, when we fail, we assume from the outset that we have not been positive enough. While there are probably other answers to this question.

Year

What made me fail? Try for once to reflect on your failures without taking care of this belief and try to really find a coherent and logical answer to your past or recent failures.

There are clear exceptions to this positive thinking rule: some people do things without believing them. Some people trust them without « believe » in them. You can get your driver's license without believing it, being negative from the beginning. One can make a good note of an exam without believing it and be surprised by the result. You can win in court while you're scared. You can hear a girl or a boy answering us « yes » When you invite him out without being sure of himself and without believing...

There is nothing dangerous in the positive, but the belief that one must think positive is dangerous because it makes us ignore what is real.

 3. A belief is not a fact but can overlap with a fact

Imagine a belief like a plastic film. You can plasticize a fact with a belief. That does not make it more true. But it reassures you. It's an unconscious process.

If you pull out the plastic film, the fact continues to exist.

You do not need such beliefs especially if you are a scientist. Because, as you will see later, believing in something makes us ignore interesting leads.

4. A belief is like a virus

A belief is a tiny unit, a brick that builds our way of thinking and acting. A belief system is a coordinated whole that works in an identity way. Every human being is a system of beliefs in itself that itself contains several belief systems that block around the same theme. A belief is as tiny as a virus and as dangerous.

It exists within us but if we communicate with others, it can spread and replicate. A belief is contagious.

We often say in our common language that fear is contagious. Let it spread into the crowd sometimes causing save-who-may-be where everyone walks on to flee. A belief can spread in the same way.

 5. A belief is not a thought but generates it

A belief is what moves involuntary thought. She is the centre of it but she is not herself a thought. We think it, we perceive it with our thought but it is not a thought. You have to remember this because it's important. Your mind is an aspect of you that helps you to reflect, feel and conceptualize and perceive yourself. So your mind is what allows you to perceive your beliefs, but your beliefs are not necessarily in your mind.

Beliefs exist at a more fundamental level than thought. Beliefs are in the mind what genes are in the body. Precursors, initiators. Programming.

 Example:

Belief « I must be respected » creates a specific mental state. Unconscious and absent from the mind in normal time, it is activated when you think of something or when you experience something related to it. As soon as this belief works, you will think and imagine things: « This is not normal, I am not respected, I should be in this situation, what should I do? Imposing, ignoring this person, typing her, not respecting her in return... ».

Belief « I have to get angry when we don't do what I want » creates a mental state of intolerance, demand and hostility.