Beliefs are Unnecessary and Never True

There is no such thing as a “limiting” belief.

People spend a lot of time, money, and energy trying to change their limiting beliefs.

However, belief - any belief - whether perceived as limiting or empowering, is limiting at its essence. Belief is a container, veiling your reality.

My first indication when I hear someone start a sentence with "I believe..." is that they actually do not know much about the thing they believe in. A lot of my work involves inquiring very deeply and intimately with people about their beliefs. When we inquire about the nature of their beliefs, whether perceived as "limiting" or "empowering,” I often ask them the following question: Do you believe water is wet, or do you know the wetness of water? Can you imagine describing the wetness of water without ever having the direct experience of being wet?

Let's assume for a moment you have never been in the water and never experienced its wetness, though you'd still need to describe it. Your description may follow because you read about it, someone told you about it, or because most people think it is wet. It's all based on opinions, thoughts, and intellectual information, not your own direct experience. Now, let's say the opposite. You have read, heard, and learned to believe that water is not wet. Perhaps even dangerous. Yet, one day, you harness your courage and decide to jump right in the water despite opposing beliefs. At that moment, you discover a very unique experience of the wetness of water. At that very moment, all beliefs dissolve into the direct experience– knowing the wetness of water. From that moment on, whatever anyone else will say, or any study will claim, no one will make you believe otherwise. Because, well, you do not have a belief about it - you know it. You had direct experience of it. Therefore, the nature of belief is to change with the ever-changing nature of the mind. And thus, beliefs cannot, and never will, be a fundamental truth. So we can ask, are they even necessary?

Beliefs are an energy-draining system because they need to be developed, fed, and maintained over a long period, and require us to hold on to a mental, thought-based concept. Knowing is effortless. It happens in an instant and is beyond thought. Belief, like any physical object, takes a lot of energy to form and deform, and in that process, we spend a lot of energy on maintaining it! This room took a lot of energy to form, it takes a lot of energy to maintain, and eventually will take a lot of energy to deform. Same with your beliefs. Do you feel tired, exhausted, heavy, or even burned out more than you’d like?

Much of your essential energy goes into the process of forming, deforming, and maintaining your beliefs instead of your well-being. So beliefs, like any physical object, as history demonstrated, do not last forever; the nature of belief is to change ( like a physical object, sometimes even shatter) and eventually dissolve, regardless of how solid it seems to be. So belief, any belief, is limiting at its core, unnecessary and can never describe fundamental truth.