When you’ve eliminated all the beliefs you can think of that could explain a given problem and when the beliefs that have been eliminated somehow still feel true, the problem is probably being caused by a conditioned “sense.”
A sense is not a cognitive statement like a belief; it exists as a feeling. If you try to communicate to someone what that sense feels like, you might use colors (like dark), physical sensations (like heavy), metaphors (like I’m being stopped by a wall), short phrases (like can’t move forward), etc. You can have a sense of many things, but the most common three senses are of yourself, of people, and of life.
Your sense of
yourself feels like who you really are; it feels like you were born this way;
this feeling is you.
A sense of people
feels like who people really are; people are inherently this way; they always
were and always will be this way.
A sense of life
feels like the way life really is; life is always this way, no matter what.
In order for us to
be able to experience a feeling, there must be an event stimulating the
feeling. But that is not sufficient. Except for stimuli that are explicit
threats to our physical survival, like the experience of drowning, stimuli themselves do not have inherent meaning
for adults. The meaning adults give to events is what triggers
emotions. On the other hand, certain events can have inherent meaning for children.
If we
experience similar meanings repeatedly, obviously we will have the same
feelings over and over. We forget the feelings were caused by external events
(interactions with our parents) and conclude: If I feel this way about myself
most of the time, my feelings must be true; they must be who I really am.
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