02.06 – Transforming False Beliefs – Part 1

For me to glibly tell you to “Follow your instincts” is easy. For you to actually do it, in our modern world, is virtually impossible. We humans are, apparently, the first species on this planet to have the ability to intentionally and dramatically disregard and ignore our instincts. Our arrogant cleverness… our over-reliance on our mental faculties, has greatly imbalanced our ability to holistically perceive and tune into our world. We have lost touch with our world and with ourselves so thoroughly that we now believe human instincts are primitive and irrelevant.

You may say that you can no longer trust your instincts… and you are correct. That is because you can no longer feel them. An instinctive urge may pop up from time to time, but your conscious intellect overrides it almost immediately.

So, you have defaulted to relying on the mental constructs, theories and beliefs created by other people for your answers, instead of relying on yourself. At least 99% of the beliefs you have taken on throughout your life are from other people. You did not create them yourself. They have been programmed into you by others – parents, teachers, friends, employers, preachers, doctors, textbooks, scriptures, media of all kinds, and so on. Someone else told you these beliefs, with their built-in opinions and assumptions, and you swallowed them whole, with little if any consideration or examination.

Or perhaps you took on beliefs and habits by example, watching and listening to what others did and said, and you simply followed along without question. You believed them and made their beliefs yours. Their beliefs, now your beliefs, have become part of you… they are a major part of your current self-identity.

Your treasured beliefs are a huge part of your ego sense of self-identity, a sense of self-identity which you cherish above all else… though you may have never thought about it that way.

Many of the beliefs you hold are false, but you do not know that, because deep-seated beliefs are very difficult to objectively see, to challenge, to break, and to eliminate. Rather than openly consider and evaluate new truths, most people reflexively defend their current belief system… because defending your beliefs feels like you are defending yourself.

The path back to truth, seeing clearly, regaining health and sanity, requires that you commit to ‘unlearning’ your false programmed beliefs. If you want to naturally and easily reconnect to the amazing wisdom that is already built into you – your instincts and your intuition – you must free them from the suffocating wet blankets that are covering them.

Unlearning falsehood is the prerequisite to learning higher truths. To ‘see straight’ is to give yourself far greater clarity about all matters in your life. To feel your healthy instincts and intuition, you must remove the obstacles which are blocking them from being felt.

This is much easier said than done. But it is the only true and permanent way forward. It is a way forward that consistently gives positive results. You cannot maintain your current beliefs, while adding new and better knowledge to them, and expect everything to fit together without friction. You cannot seek and properly apply higher truth when you continue to carry false beliefs within you. The inner conflict becomes unbearable. One or the other – old beliefs or new, better truths – must be rejected. In most cases, for most people, comfortable and familiar beliefs are more important and valuable to them than newer, higher truths. It requires strong inner conviction to desire Truth more than pretending to feel good and happy about your current self.