Beliefs and the Brain
Beliefs are the brain’s self-made “maps” to quickly negotiate an environment or a new person. The brain is quick to form beliefs. Take meeting someone new. The brain quickly wants to know Friend or foe? Killer or healer? Useful or annoying? Easy-going or uptight? To help navigate (handle) the new person, it subjectively forms “first impressions” based on existing beliefs, previous experiences, and emotions. This first impression won’t be accurate or objective, but it’ll be fast and useful. Here’s how the brain uses the three Beliefs-Types:
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Belief in Faith Issues
As a psychiatrist, I consider how a person’s belief in faith is helpful to their mental health and recovery. I don’t influence anyone’s faith. Belief in faith is highly individual and is greatly influenced by family and culture. The words “belief” and “faith” steer our minds towards population-level religious matters:
Does an after-life exist?
What should we believe in this country?
How can we better tolerate differing faith systems in society?
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What are Beliefs?
Understanding how belief works in the brain is a relatively new area. What are beliefs? Knowing and questioning your beliefs is good for you; it’s part of preventative mental health. Many people have problem beliefs, particularly about themselves:
I’m no good
I’ll never get anywhere
I’m a bad person who deserves to go to hell.
Based on science, we can change belief, What are beliefs?
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3 Types of Control in Relationships
Do you have someone close who is controlling? Are you controlling? If so, here are some practical ways of moving from being a controller to being an encourager.
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7 ways you can change your personality
There may be much you can’t change about your personality, but you can give it a workout to optimize its strengths and manage its weaknesses. Here’s how. You can’t change your DNA, temperament, culture, or childhood, but you can learn and practice skills to strengthen your character for a healthier personality. Know its strengths and optimize them; know its weaknesses, and manage them. Here are my top tips for things you can change in your personality.
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Personality Types
Can you put your personality type in a box? Personalities are unique. Yours is. So is mine. Still, categorizing personality types is useful for understanding yourself and others. Just don’t let it limit you. Let’s look at different personality types.
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What the frick's a personality?
She’s got personality! He’s got character. They’re quite temperamental. But what do we really mean? Each of us has a personality; an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving to relate to ourselves, others and the world. Like the body, it’s unique, and it’s a vehicle to help you drive down the highway of your unique experience of life. It’s your style of driving; how you do life.
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