Monday Dec 13, 2021

S6E10 - Beliefs I no Longer Live By

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We don’t choose the environment we are born into, yet our environment shapes our core beliefs.

Our families, friends, newsfeeds, and experiences in the world reaffirm the assumptions we have, which then become beliefs, which then become paradigms that are the frameworks for how we live our lives.

From fleeting feelings to intense moments, to the things we observe, hear, and digest at home, media and at school, our views about life are impacted by a range of things, and from early on in life.

Your high school teacher told you that you were good or not good at economics, and a mini-paradigm was born.

Your partner in university always made you feel like you were not enough for them, another paradigm surfaces.

You were unfortunate to have a bad relationship with your parents and they made you feel everyone will leave you in the end, and there goes yet another strong paradigm.

So you become an adult, engage in the wild world, start attempting to live life to the fullest, and one by one, these paradigms that you’ve been immersed in every day come rattling down, to shape your actions and reinforce themselves.

Not everyone goes through paradigm shifts as they age, but we all need them.

We all need moments and experiences that call for a new understanding of our beliefs and subsequent adjustment in how we think or behave.

If the world is a tension of good and evil, that means we have all ingrained paradigms that are productive but also many that are toxic.

However, our paradigms and core beliefs, whether productive or toxic, are not always our fault. But it is our job to identify and challenge them, as often as we can.

In this season finale, we wrote down some of the paradigm shifts that we have experienced in recent times and shared them with each other. It was not easy, as it required deep reflection, but we managed to single out a few worthy ones, some personal, others external.

It is an episode we hope makes you do the same as 2021 comes to a close, and by doing so we hope we can all transform our beings again like the myth of the phoenix.

S6E10 - Beliefs I no Longer Live By

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