How can you begin revealing the core belief that's the linchpin of your whole worldview about yourself, regarding the character of the universe, or about people?I'm going to use my own personal situation, because that I know it intimately... because I know of all my emotions and because I have been purposely looking.
Rule # 1: don't ever think that you have found THE ONLY answer. The answer may be much deeper than where you are looking. For example: I thought that my own core belief was that I didn't have the permission to live. It felt catarthic, and I shifted it. I could have easily gone my merry way, but that would have turned out to be a mistake.
Rule # 2: Your core belief is the thing that irks you about other people. What do I mean?
Whenever others you observe take a step that you would never do, or would never do it that way, or it isn't the proper way to do it... contemplate that you're dealing with your core belief.
Example of this: It's been bothering me that my downstairs neighbor comes up with demands on my landlord. I have resided here for 8 years, and I never made a request. I know that the landlord is short of money, so I make do with a broken stove, with ceilings that are peeling from a big storm, etc.
Today I observed that the downstairs neighbor has a new fridge installed. I noticed my resentment and self-righteous indignation and began to watch. What if I were like that? I had never ever, I am talking about NEVER asked that question before. As to why? You will see... the reaction to my question was high intensity terror. TERROR. Actual physical pain.
What's going on? I've discovered a bunch of incidents in my life where I was punished, by my mother, for requesting something. She never ever beat my brothers for the same things. I began to muscle test to get the belief, first in English, after that in Hungarian.
The muscle test zeroed in on ...
Posted by mavenso33
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