Unconscious Belief Patterns

Beliefs are patterns of thoughts and feelings - usually unconscious - which are potentially as changeable as the thoughts and feelings which compose them. Yet they are usually not available to change due to the fact that they are held in a state of non-reception which is often referred to as "true." We believe that our "beliefs" are "true," for they fit our experience. Rarely, however, do we consider how beliefs define reality for us, and as such become not the result of our experience but the cause of it. They tell us what is real or not, what is possible or not, what is right and wrong, what is acceptable or not, and so on. At the same time, most of the beliefs which people hold refer not to religious or spiritual ideals, but to the individual themself and the world in which they live. Thus, the province of "belief" covers a great deal of ground in the human psyche. Yet most of these "beliefs" are not really conscious to the individual the majority of the time. These are what we refer to as unconscious beliefs or belief patterns. By "belief pattern" we simply mean a set of beliefs related to the same topic or area which are linked together in some way.

Wherever one is holding beliefs or belief patterns - whether conscious or unconscious - one has given up one's free-will choice in that area. How can this be? Simply by the fact that one's options of thought, feeling, and action are limited by what the belief says is possible, right, acceptable, etc. When we create a belief, we "lock in" the thoughts and feelings which make up the belief and consider them to be "unchangeable" or, in a more common way of thinking, "true." We create such patterns from the conclusions we draw from our experience, or at least that's what our mind likes to think. What actually happens is that we consciously or unconsciously create a belief through the combination of certain choices (represented in thoughts, feelings, behaviors, etc) and then, because of our non-reception of these patterns, they are "acted out" in our experience - thus, as the mind sees it, justifying the belief. Almost anyone will tell you that they think or feel or believe what they do because that is what their experience has shown them. And the experience is seen to verify (be the reason for) the belief.

In the metaphysical approach, we operate from the primary assumption that "you are the creator of all you experience." When this principle is taken seriously, one cannot blame one's experience on something outside of oneself, so one's experience becomes a result, rather than a cause. What is it the result of? Of one's choices, but most choices are not made consciously, and most are also made with denial of the choice at the same time. And the most common form of denial used by self is the form we refer to as linkage. Linkage is the process of combining one choice with another as if the presence of the first choice somehow is the cause of the next choice, or the reason why it is there at all. Thus begins the process of creating a belief pattern. It has been done for so long that the very process itself has become pretty unconscious and taken for granted. How else, after all, could we even imagine being in the world?

There is another way, and that involves beginning to take responsibility for one's experience as one's own creation, regardless of what is happening in that experience. This is a tall order for many people, for the idea that "things happen" to you, which you are not in control of or have any hand in making happen at all, is inculcated in almost everyone from the earliest age, for this idea is well entrenched in the mass consciousness. That doesn't, however, make it true. When one begins to work with the concept that you are the creator of all you experience, then new possibilities open up for you. This process does, however, involve beginning to take responsibility for one's unconscious - and that is a tall order as well. How many people do you know who are willing to take responsibility for what they "don't know"? How one creates the unconscious and the effects which the unconscious have on oneself are topics for another publication. Here, we simply wish to point out that what exists in the unconscious is everything you don't "want"/desire/choose to be conscious of. And that includes the vast majority of one's belief patterns. This is not to say that there aren't many conscious belief patterns as well. Only that what most people are conscious of is actually a small part of their "reality" or "beingness."

Why don't people want to be conscious of their choices and beliefs? Mainly because it is too much, and to do so would mean that one would have to start taking responsibility for one's creations - and sad to say this is something that few seem willing to do at this point in time. Just look at the degree of victimization in the world around you, and you will begin to see how this is so, for every point of "victim" is a point of denial of responsibility for one's choices. The fact that you are interested in creating change in your life, and you are interested in using the approach given in these materials, means that there is some part of you which - in its desire for change - is willing to start looking again at what you have created inside (which is reflected on the "outside").

Some of what you will find in your patterns will sound vaguely familiar, some will not sound like you at all. Some of it will create a reaction inside - perhaps of denial, or confusion, or simply lack of understanding. Whatever your reaction is, it is more important to stay connected to the process and give it - and yourself - a chance to see what you can create differently with it, than what you are creating all the time. This is the possibility that clearing unconscious belief patterns holds for you. It will start to open up more space inside, where things are very tight and locked down - in areas where you have literally "frozen" your choice process. In whatever area you are doing clearing, you will find a lot more ‘ease" and "freedom" than you have experienced previously, and the area will not hold as much "charge" for you. In other words, certain "buttons" you have had in that area will no longer be there at all. Won't that be nice? Imagine having the space inside to feel relaxed, confident, present, and energized, along with the feeling that you can create whatever you desire in this area? It is literally true that this is who you are in your essence, and when your choice is "freed up" through the process of clearing, this is what you begin to experience again.

This process of clearing unconscious belief patterns does not change any of your choices, nor does it make choices for you. What it does is to, in a sense, melt the locked down linkages you have made among your choices which create the belief pattern in the first place. It is like "ungluing" a lot of things you have stuck together, for the purpose of re-creating your experience or reality in this area. You can always try to re-create your experience without doing clearing, and sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. It all depends on your process of creating space inside you, and the other aspects of your creative process, such as how you spark something new. These things take place without this specific process of clearing. All this process does is to speed up the clearing so you don't have to "play it out" in your experience in order to clear it.

So what does "clearing" mean then? It means really receiving your experience as your creation. When your experience is "controlled" by your unconscious belief patterns, you are not in a state of reception in this way. You have let go of your conscious choice/creative process and given up your "creatorship". When you do this, the only thing that's left, really, is victimhood. So clearing is really a way of accelerating your process of "recovering" lost choice, as it were. You grow tremendously in the process. You open up yourself for new choices to create new experiences. Who wouldn't desire that?