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Many of the beliefs we hold are
not single and isolated. Whenever we explore a creative endeavor it
is often obvious there is a belief or two which we will need to
change or modify to create what we desire. That should be obvious
since the mind that created the problem we face is not the mind that
will solve the problem.
However, when we go and change the belief or modify a belief, we
find there are many other beliefs that are entwined, connected or
otherwise entangled as if our beliefs are webbed or entwined
together. That is, it is as if each belief we hold is tied and
connected with a multitude of other beliefs.
In many ways our beliefs are linked to one another the way these
discussion files are hyperlinked to each other. Any one file is not
linked to all the other files. But, any one file is linked to
several that are in turn linked to several more and so on. After a
short exploration, you find that all the files are all
interconnected and linked in some way to each other. So changing one
belief is like changing the content of one of these files. That
change may or may not ripple through many others. So it is not a
simple task of changing one or two beliefs. Rather we often must
revisit a whole
belief structure, a way of thinking, and the implications from
that way of thinking. The discussion of the
Seven Chakras provides a good representation of how our beliefs
are
nested together around seven aspects of life.
Encountering a web of beliefs is especially true when we choose to
explore the depth and breadth of our creativity and/or address
programming that goes back to our early years of life. It is because
these beliefs center around our early life experience that they
become so powerful. These early life experiences and the beliefs
they generate often act as a foundation upon which we build our
life. If we begin to change these beliefs we risk changing our whole
approach to life and our approach to our creative activities. It
should not be to surprising that changing a belief we carried all
our life will radically change our view and all that the belief
affected. Some of the changes that can result form changing a single
core belief can be quite profound.
It is here
creative play and our
creative imagination become very important tools in exploring
our beliefs and look to change them. By being free to explore our
beliefs structure in our own mind through our creative imagination
there are many options and possibilities which can explore. We can
actually see what beliefs are the most effective for what we desire
to create.
Now what is interesting is when we find a belief that is extremely
powerful in helping us to create what we desire but we cannot
integrate it with our other beliefs. If we choose to live this
belief and not integrate with the rest of our beliefs, we cause
ourselves to live in separation and we will feel somehow separated
from our
source/Source of
creative power/Creative Power. Or, we many not feel a separation
but will feel a lack of wholeness. So as to not feel the separation
or the lack of wholeness, we end up numbing what we feel. That in
turn just leads to more separation and possibly even addictions.
Since many of our beliefs are web together and part of one or more
larger beliefs structures, many of the web connections are not
readily known, easily surfaced or easily cut. It is here rituals,
ceremonies, special excursions like pilgrimages, voyages or quests,
special education or training programs, and the like can be used to
address beliefs in mass and the belief structures for given areas of
our life. The discussion, “Background
for the Seven Chakra Questionnaire” for rituals describes such a
process utilized in the
Seven Chakra Questionnaire developed for
rituals.
Related topics
Belief structure
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