But sometimes these beliefs that you carry from your childhood can be harmful. What is the best way to rid yourself of years & years of beliefs that are harmful? I've tried therapy but it's really hard to get past & dispel things taught by parents who did the best they could & then of course there's the religious belief's. This is a tough one.
2007-02-06 16:54:53 · 13 answers · asked by Sandi Beach 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is a book out by Louise Hay called You Can Heal Your Life and it will tell you step by step how to do just that. How to reclaim your mind and create the life and thoughts that you want and get out of the old ruts and habits we learned as children. I think this book is a miracle and it is a quick and inexpensive solution to many of life's problems. I look at it nearly every day - here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Heal-Your-Life/dp/0937611018/sr=8-2/qid=1170828636/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-0529028-3531238?ie=UTF8&s=books
You can even look inside with this link.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Be a concientious observer - notice your own thoughts, be aware of your mental patterns and gently correct the ones you don't like. If you want a life of your own choosing, you must be willing to put in the work to set your mental house in order - you will be glad you did.
Peace!
2007-02-06 17:13:00 · answer #1 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is going to sound crazy-but it works. Fake it. When you pretend to believe or pretend to be the person that you want to be-and yes, at first it is pretend, you become that person. With that belief system. It is just a thought process. You start thinking about what the person that you want to become would do in each situation, do it, and eventually it is what you become. I changed my life this way. I have become the person that I knew that I could be and always wanted to be. I have given my daughter the same advice. It is working. Good Luck! It's tough but it can be done.
2007-02-06 17:00:27 · answer #2 · answered by Shawn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, most of mine were good things too. I have depended on the help of Jesus to overcome hurdles. I wonder if therapists realize the power they hold when they try to fix a mind with their own ideas of truth instead of Gods Truths? We know how great the power of suggestion is, what if we are suggesting the wrong things. This is relevant for anyone playing a therapeutic role.
2007-02-06 17:03:21 · answer #3 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has to make up their OWN mind when it comes to what they're going to believe as far as God is concerned. I abandoned the "religion" I was raised in and went on a hunt for the Truth, because there was a need in me to KNOW for sure. I wasn't getting logical, intelligent answers (or I got no answers at all), and I KNEW I couldn't let it go until I discovered one way or another what was TRUE! suggest you do the same. God PROMISES us this....
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search
for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13, KJV
God bless you
xx
2007-02-06 17:03:24 · answer #4 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was baptised Catholic as an infant and I left that belief. As a teenager I became an Atheist and hugged evolution and I left that belief too.
2007-02-06 17:01:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are right, I was raised catholic, and I have renounced that religion and am now a born again Christian. The thoughts still stay with you from your childhood, but they eventually go away.
2007-02-06 16:59:56 · answer #6 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Talk to me over IM. That did the trick before; I don't think you'll present any particular challenge.
2007-02-06 17:02:19 · answer #7 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe if you rephrase this we could help, I do not know what harmful thing you can't shake.
2007-02-06 17:00:03 · answer #8 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It fades away with time, I still get the occasional church song stuck in my head, though.
My parents church puts their lyrics to already established songs, if the wrong oldie comes on, I get some church crap in my head.
2007-02-06 17:01:48 · answer #9 · answered by lilith 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Should they be good why dispel them?
2007-02-06 16:59:23 · answer #10 · answered by fran t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋