Belief and its Consequences

 

One participant told a story he remembered from childhood.  He was around four years old at the time and was playing with toys in his room while his parents were arguing downstairs.  When his father was not at work, he was usually hanging out with friends, spending little time with the family.  The participant’s mother and grandfather raised him when he was a little boy.  His mother was very sheltering and his eighty-year old grandfather knew nothing about playing sports.  While his parents were arguing, he overheard his dad tell his mother, “you are going to make that boy a sissy.”  Afterwards, the participant went to school and was picked on because he would not take part in the activities other boys his age enjoyed.  He felt that he was incapable of participating in these activities.  Once he learned how to remove his emotional pain by going through SFT Awareness, he was able to understand why.

Parents and teachers alike can influence children in both a positive or negative way.  Children believe anything and everything parents tell them because these individuals are the child’s main source of knowledge.  Pain can often result from this system of learning if parents are not careful when they speak.

Sociologist, Robert Merton, coined the term “self-fulfilling prophecy”.  This term refers to a prediction issued directly or indirectly towards an individual which causes him or her to act in a certain way, leading the prediction to prove true.  For example, if a young child is constantly belittled and called stupid by his parents when he struggles with his homework, the child will likely develop low self-esteem, affecting his ability to perform other tasks in the future.  This type of negative interaction on the parents’ part is all it takes to cause pain in a person’s life.  Attributes that parents ascribe to young children are often tucked away in the child’s subconscious mind and acted upon throughout life without that child even realizing how many of his parents’ comments he actually absorbed.

False belief systems, or broken cisterns (Jeremiah 2:13), can be acquired all throughout life but generally begin when a person is young.  The child who was called stupid might go through life believing he is dumb and constantly looking to others to give him approval. When a person becomes a pain processor, he can begin identifying these false belief systems through almost every pain event that occurs in his life.  After identifying the false belief system, he can remove them in the same way that he processes pain on paper.

If you desire to learn more about identifying and removing false belief systems so that the foundation of new belief systems can be laid by God, please contact us.