Caverns of the Mind - John Anhalt
The Nature of Belief
Have you ever known someone that would continually get themselves in the same, or similar bad situation, complain about it, and then do it again? As the person on the outside of the drama, usually we can see quite clearly where this particular person’s folly is, but for some reason, even if they can see it themselves, they keep repeating this pattern over and over, as if they were trapped, and had no other option.
We know how easy it is to see our friend’s folly, but for some curious reason it’s not so easy when we’re the ones going through the drama. These cyclical like dramas can be as traumatic as repeating abusive co-dependent relationships, to as subtle as not engaging in a conversation that could have benefited you, or pushing all-in in a situation, when we know we should fold instead. So of course, why and how these dramas exist at all is critical to understand if we wish to end the negative influence they have over our lives.
So I have on simple question for you. How successful do you really want to be at poker, and life? The funny thing about these dramas and beliefs is that the more personally significant something is to you, the more intense these problems and beliefs will present themselves in our psyche. The key to success is un-covering these beliefs and dramas and come to an understanding as to why they exist, and how they hold a power over us.
Great success comes with great effort and work. Some people are fortunate enough to not have significant limiting beliefs that will block them from some of their lesser goals, however, everyone will face blocks to one degree or another. The tools, or will-power we have in breaking through these blocks unravels our fate before us. But the higher the stakes, the bigger the blocks, in both life, and poker.
False Beliefs
False beliefs are simply incorrect beliefs we have accepted about ourselves, and the nature of the world, which limit our personal potential. The difficult thing about false beliefs though, is that they remain fairly hidden in our psyche, primarily because these beliefs have never been put into words before. Theses false beliefs were conclusions that we made at some point (generally in our very early development), about scenes in our lives we participated in. And since the beliefs haven’t been put into words, they cannot be understood with the rational mind. Instead, these beliefs emerge, mostly as feeling states, and we act out upon these states without knowing why we do.
These false beliefs manifest as problems, or blocks, when attempting to achieve personally meaningful goals because we are unknowingly trying to understand our present reality through a misunderstood past. Further, the beliefs become cyclical in nature, and whenever a scene in our present has similar qualities to scenes from our past, we apply our previous false conclusion to our present scene, which invariably ends in a problem or distress. Thus, we must reflect and uncover these past scenes, so that we can put words on them, see them against through our adult eyes, and draw new conclusions that will free us from the psychic parasite which is limiting our potential.
How do you know if you have false beliefs?
1. Failure to achieve one’s goals with excellence.
2. Creating, or setting secondary goals as if they were your primary goals.
3. Making practical matters the primary goal of one’s life.
4. Not preparing adequately for goals.
5. Losing concentration or energy.
6. Being unable to resist distractions.
7. Not being able to maintain the goal.
8. Letting opportunities go by, or sabotaging opportunities for success.
9. Blaming others for not achieving.
10. Functionally ideally during a crisis, but experiencing anxiety before and after such events.
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