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You Are Concealing Realities
Dr Raven Dolick MsD Dec 27, 2014
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 Personal attachments to notions, particularly cultural and spiritual notions, is regrettably very common....
While experiencing a belief scheme from the inside is normally a wise choice, likening your identity with any fixed opinion is a disempowering error. As the idea of reality reveals, beliefs are a way you can view reality.
Each reveals some facets of reality while concealing others. The more views you experience, the more complete your understanding of the whole. Even if you get incredibly attached to one specific view, it remains merely a view and can't define you. Adhesion to one particular view of reality limits your might and cuts back your power to connect with individuals who hold different views.

This is a hard concept for many individuals to accept as we grow used to identifying with our notions. It may be disconcerting to quit identifying with any fixed ideology and to recognize that all beliefs are views and can't define us. Social disciplining unfortunately tells us we have to turn one specific set of ideas into our individuality.

Are you a capitalist? A Christian? A doubter? The way these questions are asked presumes you have to respond with a yes or no. But this is like asking if you're an eye, an ear, or a nose. It would be more judicious to ask questions like "Do you comprehend the point of view of Christianity?" Rather than attempting to equate it with your personal identity. When you begin linking particular beliefs to who you are, you unnaturally restrict your sense of self. This practice violates the idea of might.

It's far more productive for us to learn to view reality through multiple views and look for higher truths together rather than battling over who holds the most popular view.
Among the most empowering choices you are able to arrive at is to decouple your beliefs from your personal identity. In spite of how firmly held your beliefs might be, they may never define you. If you alter your faith, you're still you. A given belief system may only limit your power to grow.

You are literally refusing to access a power within you that will give you the ability to create your world any way you want it.

Step outside your beliefs. It is like going from being blind all your life to seeing.


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