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6 Ways You’re Ruining Your Life
6 Common Core Believes That Affect The Way You Live Your Life
One of my favourite Instagram accounts is The Holistic Psychologist, run by Dr. Nicole LePera. In her posts, she breaks down and articulates concepts such as re-parenting, mind-gut connection, ego, and self-betrayal so well.
Recently I found her post about common core beliefs and it resonated with me. Every single one felt very relatable or exactly like someone I knew.
According to LePera, a core belief is a belief created in the subconscious mind between birth to age 7, that a person has internalized as ‘truth’ or ‘reality’.
The Reticular Activation System (RAS) is a bundle of nerves in the brain stem that filters out information from our environment to confirm core beliefs. It’s like that saying about seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses. Once you have a core belief, you see the world through that filter and experience confirmation bias.
Becoming conscious of core beliefs allows us to unlearn them, make new decisions and create new responses.
