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Belief Change
Posted by: | CommentsBeliefs are prime examples of generalisations about ourselves AND the world, which act as a spring board to all our decisions. Beliefs are JUST IDEAS, there is nothing intrinsically TRUE about them.
One of the most powerful character of beliefs is that they often become self-fulfilling prophecies.
A common example of this is when a person firmly believes they’ve lost something, and sure enough, they can’t find it until someone points out that the lost object is right in front of them!
The unconscious mind deletes the visual information (“the object is right here”) to prove the belief right.
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