Reply To: Exercise 4: Write Your Beliefs
Beliefs
My beliefs tended to be mostly from the “eagle” perspective as opposed to the “mouse”, i.e looking at things from a more distant vantage point than up close. I think there was one thing that came up for me as a belief that wasn’t exactly surprising but maybe felt with more generalized sentiment than I had previously noted. I didn’t write any strategies, I don’t think, I think they were all beliefs.
Beliefs are the lens through which I make meaning out of the data I receive from my senses. They are something like our skeleton or the frame of a house. The incoming data gets placed according to the infrastructure our beliefs have constructed. I see the world around us according to what I believe. I hear what another says to me in the context of my beliefs. I put stories to my emotions and sensations according to what I believe about life and myself. And one belief I have is that we all think that what we believe is “right” which frames how we interact with others. It is only with a belief that I could be wrong, or I might be missing something, when something opens up in me to listen or observe differently. This is something that I think is incredibly important to cultivate in my life in order to grow beyond my current identity or limitations.