Page 17 - Self Image Mastery - Week1

SELF IMAGE & AUTOMATIC SUCCESS MECHANISM 17
Our experiences are stored away as an ‘understanding’ of the world to help us with future experiences. These personal ‘conclusions’, or beliefs, often formed unconsciously, are shaped from our positive experiences as well as our negative experiences. Those experiences are sometimes dreadful, sometimes wonderful, sometimes deadly dull!
The more intense the emotions associated with the experience, the more ‘important’ we unconsciously deem those experiences to be. As a consequence of this, the beliefs are ‘filed’ with more importance.
Beliefs formed in a moment of terror have a powerful hold over us in the future. Beliefs formed in a moment of joy have a similar power over our future experiences.
Intensely emotional experiences are likely to be more relevant than experiences that are neutral and so this ‘ranking’ of beliefs is generally useful. Fear charged memories often lead us to avoid similar situations and experiences in the future; joy charged memories often lead us to seek out similar situations and experiences in the future.
These experiences are typically, but not solely, accumulated during the early part of our life and often, not just from our own experiences, but from the comments, actions and responses of other people.
THE SELF IMAGE IS IDEAS ABOUT US, PLACED IN OUR MINDS, BY OTHER PEOPLE, WITHOUT US REALIZING IT, BEFORE WE HAD THE ABILITY TO THINK FOR OURSELVES
Because the beliefs are stored in our subconscious mind, tucked away below the level of consciousness, very often we are not even aware that they are there at all, let alone have cause to question their validity or helpfulness.
Carl Jung observed the impact of this in his famous quote:
EM COMMUNITY