What's Your CORE BELIEFS?

What's Your CORE BELIEFS?

Our thread today seems that colorless & boring.  Because talking about CORE BELIEF, it seems that way.  So, What's Your CORE BELIEFS?  CORE BELIEFS are our deeply 'entrenched' beliefs that inform and influence us as to how we see ourselves and the world.  Indeed, they have a HUGE influence on our perceptions and even our decision-making📗📙📘

Before CORE BELIEFS turn controversial, let us align that it can either be helpful, unhelpful OR simply neutral in our life.  Those unhelpful OR unrealistic CORE BELIEFS may even negatively affect our mental health and overall life satisfaction.  However, because CORE BELIEFS form such a large part of our own worldview, we may sometimes find it difficult to identify them.  It also takes time and effort to change CORE BELIEFS.  That explains WHY, all along, it's been tagged as CORE.  WHAT's rarely knew is that a person's CORE BELIEFS help govern our interactions with the outside world, and that includes one's response/reaction to stress and their relationships.  WHY? Because our CORE BELIEFS are strong enough to hold consistently over time and this BELIEF function 'rules' for HOW the world works and a person's role within it💥💥💥

As experts shared with us, these CORE BELIEFS tend to be that rigid and inflexible and they are NOT necessarily reasonable, accurate OR based on evidence.  Just look around us.  That never ending conflict in the Middle East and even the hotly contested islands in the South China Seas.  Even amongst people we know on first hand basis, you might have come across a person who fundamentally believes that he is UNLIKABLE [even if he's your friend].  The scary part of CORE BELIEFS is a person's views of others, such as the belief that humans are mostly either good OR bad, period.  That's scary indeed❎❎❎

A sampling of our CORE BELIEFS are as follows

• BELIEF about goodness - THAT they are either good OR bad.  And so are others.
• BELIEF about the likability - THAT he is either likable OR not, period 
• BELIEFS about the world - THAT the world we live in now is dangerous
• BELIEFS about competence - THAT he is intelligent and superior than others

Our takeaway:  As CORE BELIEFS play an important role in our cognitive functions, this is a fact NOT so popularly known or even accepted.  UNLESS we can identify the unhelpful automatic thoughts, UNLESS we understand the role of our thoughts in our emotional pain, and UNLESS we can adjust and replace those irrational BELIEFS with ones that are reasonable, balanced and accurate enough, we can be doomed to fail even at the very start.  What a PROBLEM, if at all❗❗❗