Home→Forums→Spirituality→My persona is dying.→Reply To: My persona is dying.
Dear tannhauser:
You are welcome.
You wrote: “It took a LOT of bravery on my part….I at least fought it as hard as I could”- as I wrote to you previously, you are a fighter, all through your posts here you were a fighter and I admire you for it. And as I wrote to you before, your courage, all through your communications here, is clear and evident, courage and bravery.
You wrote: “I am being encouraged to create an entirely new belief system”- changing core beliefs, abandoning the old and creating new core beliefs, very different from the old, involves what I referred to in my last post “an earthquake that shakes the brain.”
There is nothing more difficult to do than to change one’s core beliefs. These beliefs about who you are, who your family members are, god, afterlife and so on, these beliefs are “glued” to the brain with the strong glue of emotions. When that glue is removed, that earthquake is created, a great unsettling.
It just occurred to me as I wrote the last sentence: your old belief is the Catholic beliefs. You now believe that those beliefs are untrue. If you didn’t look for Substitute Beliefs, beliefs to fill in the vacuum created by evacuating the old beliefs, and let the dust settle on disbelieving the old, maybe that will bring you peace.
Maybe if you took a long, long pause in between abandoning the old beliefs and creating new beliefs. If you could be satisfied with the first…
anita