What do you believe in? How rooted are you in your beliefs? Are you willing to change them? No? What if you are given information that contradicts your beliefs? No? What if that information is irrefutable? I guess the real question is “Are we willing to learn, and change based on new information?”
We all have beliefs of varying degrees of depth. Most of us believe in a god or a goddess, or of some deity. Usually those beliefs are the most concrete. Probably if someone presented other beliefs or evidence that differed from yours, you would not change your belief in your deity. But what about other beliefs that we keep close to our hearts?
Most of us believe in Santa Claus, at least until a certain age. We my fight to keep that belief, but we usually let it go.
What about religion (another touchy subject)? How many of us are willing to look at other religions and see what they offer and how they function? Probably not too many, unless you were dissatisfied with what you currently have. It is the person that is willing to look and learn that has the open mind.
Over the last dozen years, I have had various beliefs in various things. As I learned more about energy and energies, my beliefs changed, many times in fact. I’m not just talking about little things that don’t mean much matter. I’m talking about everything I’m basing my abilities and being on. I can’t imagine how many times I’ve been positive about how things worked, only to have new information change what I believe. The only reason it was able to change my beliefs was because I was open minded enough to look at the new information and decide if it was valid or not.
There are those that are rooted in their beliefs so much that they will not even entertain the idea of looking at new information. Let’s take a simple example. We have someone that drives a Chevy. They believe that Chevy is the best make of car ever. Their Chevy gets recalled 15 times, and breaks down regularly once a month. Does this person look at another brand of car, a Ford or Chrysler maybe? No. Their belief is so deeply rooted that they won’t even think about looking elsewhere. Someone else might maintain that there is a brand of car out there that is built better, maybe American, maybe Japanese, maybe others. They might look at them and decide that they are better, or not. Either way, they were open minded enough to look and learn. And if they decide that another make is better, then they have learned enough to change their beliefs. But our original owner will not get there because he loves his Chevy.
Now, that may be a simplistic example, but it can be true. I know people that will never switch the brand of car they drive. Just think, if they’re that taken with their car, and that rooted in their beliefs there, how they might be with religion, politics, or what brand of margarine they like.
The point is that we need to look at what our beliefs are. We need to see what is so deeply rooted that we won’t allow anything else in. Change is something that happens everywhere, whether we like it or not. We are constantly keeping up with change. To do that, we have to be open minded. We have to be willing to look at other things, to see what else is out there. We have to be willing to see how it fits into our lives, or not. We have to be willing to make changes in ourselves to keep up with the changes outside.
Oft times, we define ourselves. Sometimes we redefine ourselves as we change. In an era of change, we need to keep redefining ourselves as we need to keep changing. The earth is changing. We need to be ready for whatever our tasks will be in this change. To do that, we need to keep changing.
Look at the information around you. Learn what you can. Change what you need.
So, what do you believe in?