Let's have a look at beliefs. How and why people believe what they do, and the difference between conditioned belief and belief gained through knowledge and actual experience. Also, the part hypnosis and dreams play in all this.
With an understanding of beliefs comes a valuable insight into the reasons other people around you have for acting the way they do, and of course you gain a lot of self-knowledge.
When we come to hypnosis, it's most interesting to note that some people can be hypnotized to see things that aren't there, and vice-versa. It isn't merely seeing. Other people have been told to eat the apple that's on the table, and they've done so. In reality, it's an onion. This illustrates that what you believe can be totally different from actual reality.
Dreaming is exactly the same. While you're having a dream, you're living it and believing in it completely. It's only when you wake up that you realize it was all a fantasy, conjured up by your imagination. While we all like to take for granted that our beliefs are important, just how reliable are they? How can our perceptions be interfered with so that our beliefs are altered?
We can even believe the absurd, the dangerous and the downright wrong. Why? Beliefs nowadays are easily shaped, but in the old days, beliefs were finite and people were believed to choose to be either 'good' or 'bad.' Beliefs instilled in you by your family and friends, or the people with whom you mixed, played no part in your 'choice' at all.
The British psychologist William Sargent in the 1950s was the first to show how the American prisoners of war during the Korean conflict came to have their beliefs changed by the Chinese. He published his findings, and the term 'brainwashing' was born.
Sargent showed as well how a person's firmly held religious beliefs may be altered to suit those of another religion. He pointed out that beliefs come from the accident of the environment around us, that they're not personally calculated and then accepted as absolutes by ourselves.
When we're born, for instance, we find ourselves in a situation that's none of our doing. The beliefs and deeply help convictions of other people influence us wholly. This, without any conscious thinking on our part.
For instance, a man born into medieval Japan would be subject to a completely different set of beliefs than that of a Victorian lady of the 19th. century, or an American gentleman born in the 21st. century. This lays the groundwork for seeing how beliefs differ and vacillate.
Is the medieval Japanese gentleman wrong? Or the Victorian lady right? I can only see all these different beliefs as an ever-moving sea of ideas
Mike Bond likes to believe he's normal. That's his belief. We have our doubts! Still, he does have a first class Website which, coupled to the FREE downloads there, is well worth a look. Simply click on The Hypnosis Attraction and there you'll find the Downloads.
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