Beliefs Are Paintings in Your Mind

Are you painting the town red or are you painting yourself into a corner?That's what examination of your beliefs will uncover.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

Beliefs Are Paintings In Your Mind  

If you want to show someone the contents of your mind, put your beliefs on display. It’s kinda’ like your personal art show.

We attempt to make our beliefs into solid things. That’s like pretending the mountain in our painting is really Mt. Everest instead of a representation. Beliefs are representations of repeated experiences that made their way onto our internal canvas.

Beliefs are no more real than an artist’s rustic rendition of log cabin in a pine forest.

We operate in accordance with our beliefs so they must be real, right? Acupuncturists bring people relief by putting small needles into points on the body called meridians that they believe are really inside the body, yet no autopsy has found a meridian or a belief for that matter.

What that proves is that beliefs can be real useful and helpful, but it doesn't make them real.

People argue for their beliefs everyday, some go to war over them. That’s when our beliefs go amok.

The real part of beliefs is that we live in accordance with the ones we’ve painted or were painted for us. That means our behavior will follow our beliefs.

We act as though we live in the solid house we’ve painted onto a canvas. When we grasp the concept that what we've painted is not real, we’re a step closer to examining our beliefs and finding the ones that are working for us, and the ones that aren’t.

Look at any controversial, social issue. You either believe in it or you don’t. The belief is a not a real thing but we treat it as though it is. But observe the number of people whose beliefs are evolving on these topics. They've noticed their beliefs aren’t solid things, just representations on a canvas. And here's the good news: You can change the shape, size, or color of your belief with a brush stroke or two.

Are you having a hard time selling your painting? It may be time to examine it a bit more closely and see what refinements it could use. If you believe it’s a real masterpiece the way it is, it will only hang in your museum and few, if any, will come to see it.

You can use your beliefs to paint the town red or paint yourself into a corner. If you find yourself doing the latter more often, your beliefs aren’t working for you and they could use a fresh coat of paint.

All the best,

John