Bharat S. M. Karavadra

Limiting and Conflicting Beliefs

Monday, March 15th, 2010

I wrote the following article after some discussion on another article called “Looking for Love?”. Please read it first to understand the discussion.

The discussion then went as follows (note I have re-written the some of the words as they were originally written in shorthand)

COMMENT:
Is it possible that love is going to ever finish…?

MY REPLY:
From what I have learned, love is the only thing that exists and creates everything, everyone and all the experiences that have, do and will ever exist.

It is only when things and people do not have love to give that their existence in the universe becomes less enjoyable and eventually they disappear (the broadest definition of death) … from the form they (the things, people and experiences) were in and transform into something or someone else (the broadest definition of re-incarnation).

So to briefly answer your question: Love will always be here, it’s everything and everyone else that does not have love to give, that will “finish”.

COMMENT:
If love is in us, then do bad thoughts come out from our mind and why do we do bad things as well?

MY ARTICLE REPLIES:

We think “bad” thoughts, have “negative” feelings and do “bad” things because we have limiting and conflicting beliefs both in our conscious and sub-conscious minds, and also because we misinterpret our feelings.

These statements and “what to do” are not easy to describe in a few words but let me demonstrate what happens when we have conflicting beliefs with an example.

• You may have an expectation (which I will call a belief) that the father, due to their experience, is the one to give good honest advice to their child. This belief will most probably have come from someone or something when you are growing up (e.g. family, friends, tv, radio, book, teacher, an experience, etc).
• You do not trust people who are dishonest.
• Your  father lives in a “world” where he has to manipulate people, events and facts to do his job.Even though your father supports you and your family you only see him as dishonest.
• Uou convinced yourself from an event that happened in the past that people younger than you are less experienced than you.
• You heard your mother once say that the neighbour’s daughter gives great advice.

All the above information and events can “get into you” as beliefs at different stages of your life. They are in your conscious mind (you think of one of more of them sometimes) and/or in your subconscious mind (you really don’t remember them anymore) but if any of the points are brought up you somehow relate or resonate with them.

Now, with me being also a computer programmer, let’s look at it all this as a computer would and perhaps how the mind may work when you’re seeking advice or answers.

01. Get honest advice:
02. {
03.    Search conscious and sub-conscious minds (databases) for sources of honest advice: 2 sources found: (A)Your father & (B) Young daughter of your neighbour.
04.    Use each source of good advice or try again:
05.        SOURCE (A): YOUR FATHER:
06.        Search databases for integrity of source: Source is not honest so reject and continue:
07.        SOURCE (B): NEIGHBOUR’S DAUGHTER:
08.        Search databases for integrity of source: Source is yonger and hence not experienced so reject and continue:
09.        Try again: (go to line 01)
10. }
11. Else:
12. {
13.    Carry on with other aspects of life.
14. }

In this case the computer programme would end up in and endless loop between lines 01 and 09. It would be filling its memory with unusable repetitive data such as “get honest advice”, “your father is a source of honest advice”, “your father is not honest”, “get next honest advice”, “neighbour’s daughter is a source of honest advice”, “neighbour’s daughter is too young to give advice”, “try again”…

This may go on in a computer perhaps millions or trillions of times and the computer will slow down or get stuck and will not do anything else. It may start doing odd things and eventually crash when the memory gets filled to maximum with unwanted data. Eventually the computer will need to be switched off and re-booted to clear the memory and to re-write the program before it is used again.

Your mind is not too dissimilar from how a computer works. It can also get filled with conflicting beliefs which create repetitive thoughts than do not server you and which can slow you down or get you stuck preventing you from doing other things in life.

Such repetitive conflicts of beliefs can make you think, feel and do odd things because our mind will try to find other thoughts, memories and beliefs to make the limiting or conflicting beliefs work. Sometimes your thoughts, feelings and actions may not be friendly because they seem to be the only deduction remaining to get you out of the loop you’re in. Without acting on your feelings or removing the beliefs that no longer serve you, the continuing thoughts and feelings can make you mentally or physically ill because thoughts and feelings are a creative force and if they don’t create anything outside of you they will create something in you. Ultimately you could crash outright or do something drastic to get out of the loop.

Al that is required is to identify limiting and conflicting beliefs and then to “delete” or “re-write” them in you, or at worst put day-to-day life on hold for a while, to re-fresh the mind and re-invent your beliefs.

Contact me if you think you feel you are stuck, lost, have negative thoughts, feelings or are thinking about doing something negative to resolve your thoughts and feelings, or if you have taken a bigger step and accept that you may have limiting or conflicting beliefs and need help.

I believe I can help you.