Change Your Beliefs and Strengthen Your Personality
Changing your beliefs is certainly a difficult challenge to undertake, but if you put your mind to it, the number of impossibilities will be much smaller than you think! When you change or modify the beliefs that you’ve carried with you for so many years, you allow your personality to change, too. This is one of many ways to evolve and grow.
Old ideas tend to weigh us down like a backpack filled with rocks. Maybe a long time ago you firmly believed them, but now you’re aware of their shortcomings and they seem a bit inadequate. So why do you continue to defend them?
Give yourself the chance to grow by changing your beliefs
Ideologies are ways to get more in touch with ourselves, and they tend to be loaded with a lot of emotional, cultural, and traditional weight. We think that these thoughts and actions will accompany us for the rest of our lives, but the truth is that nothing remains static for that long.
Change is a virtue that not everyone understands. When your intention is to improve yourself and be someone who transcends and learns from their mistakes, the results of said change are always positive.
We tend to think that personality is written in stone and can’t be changed for anything in the world. Therefore, we religiously defend beliefs that we once valued or merely accepted. We somehow come to the conclusion that if we attack our beliefs, we also attack ourselves.
So what would happen if you realized that you were wrong, or that there’s an alternative to what you’ve been thinking for so long? Is it worth changing your beliefs? There’s no need to tell you the answer, because it can only be found inside yourself.
Limiting beliefs prevent growth
The mind is responsible for setting limits. If you think that you can’t do something, you will inevitably fail to achieve your goals. But if you’re committed to changing and fighting for what you want, no misguided idea will last for too long among those you adopt as your own.
Beliefs that act as an obstacle to your own interests — or those of the people you love — are very dangerous. The problem is that we don’t tend to notice them. They’re always present, but all they do is close you off to reasoning, debate, and enrichment.
These ideas probably benefited you at some point and were useful in certain situations, but just as circumstances change and no day is the same as the one before, beliefs that are too ingrained serve only to destroy and prevent you from getting closer to your dreams.
Beliefs and inner voices
First of all, it’s important to know that in order to have a strong personality that can successfully navigate life’s difficulties, flexibility is essential. If you walk rigidly like a robot, you won’t be able to avoid tree branches, jump over potholes, or take the right turn when there’s a fork in the path. So your frameworks of thought must be modifiable and flexible.
Adaptation has saved many species from extinction. Even human beings had to go through various stages to become what we are today. Ask yourself whether you have the capacity to change and evolve to be better than you were yesterday.
It’s true that your inner voice won’t leave you in peace. The beliefs that you want to expel will resist and put up a fight. But that doesn’t matter. Be firm in your decision and don’t give up. Question those ideas and understand why they’ve been lurking around for so long.
Ask yourself whether they’re useful to you, if they help you achieve your goals, or how they change your relationships with other people. Then think about how you can find an alternative to these beliefs. Choose the one that’s best for you. The answer probably won’t appear in the blink of an eye. It will take time and effort to find it.
Keep looking and don’t just stand idly by. If there’s something that motivates you to change, let it become the star that guides you, just like sailors used to do in the past. When you’re at the point of surrender, think about the benefits that it will bring you in the future and don’t worry about the amendments that you’ll have to make. It’s always better to change then to cling to your mistakes out of pride.
Evolve and transcend. Be like a river that runs and runs without stopping. You can achieve anything you put your mind to!
