There was an interesting discussion on beliefs and knowns in a recent teleclass. What was most powerful for me was the concept that we generalize beliefs as knowns in our minds, and this is not accurate.
As described in the class, a belief is something we generally accept as true, and we constantly gather evidence to support and verify a belief as being true. A known is simply known, it requires no evidence to support and verify it in our mind. We may not be able to define what our evidence is as to why we accept it as known, and it is unimportant for us to do that.
Since we are constantly gathering evidence to support our beliefs, we end up living in a state of doubt and uncertainty regarding these beliefs which are being generalized as true and known.
I find it ironic that many of us identify ourselves based on our belief systems, yet these very same belief systems create in us a state of doubt and uncertainty that requires a constant expenditure of energy to find evidence to support and verify.
So the very things we believe in and identify who we are by keep us in a state of doubt and require us to gather evidence to support and verify them; and worse, to sometimes filter and block out the truth and get stuck in order to maintain them.
This is very interesting to me as a concept, especially since I work with Hypnosis and NLP to help identify and change belief systems that keep a client stuck in a place that they consider undesirable.
I see a synergy in combining Coaching, Hypnosis and NLP techniques to help a client let go of belief systems that are dis-empowering them, keeping them stuck in one place, in a state of doubt; and then replacing those beliefs with new beliefs and behaviors that will empower them to move forward to their goals, and eliminate doubt by converting those beliefs to knowns through anchoring, with strong positive emotions, to a personal truth and a universal truth unique for the client.
