by Dr. Georgina Cannon: Most of the time we live in a fish bowl of our belief system, we KNOW something is true, and we never test it.
We KNOW that hard work breeds success. Not true! We KNOW that success breeds success. Not true! We know that going out with wet hair gives you a cold – my Mom said so, so it must be true. Not true!
These and others are our belief system, our truths. The lenses through which we see our world. They are our opinion, assumptions, judgements, attitudes that we bring to all
interactions, decisions and experiences. They are OUR truth, but not THE truth.
Our truth often changes as we learn more, experience more and become more wordly or wise.
Many of our beliefs are inherited from family or the environment in which we grew up.
Plus we read books, watch television (television pundits are notorious for making their opinion – the truth). Our beliefs are inclined to get stuck from the moment we form them. So if we believe at age 5 we are stupid and clumsy, because that’s what we are
told over and over again, then we grow up believing that – it becomes our truth.
How many times have you said, or heard someone say – I’m just not lucky. Or I’m always shy, or I’m always dropping things, or even, the doctor knows what he’s doing, he’s always right. We mature intellectually with thought, but when it comes to beliefs, and our truths, which are subconscious, they stay the same as when they were formed. Unless we consciously recognise and change them.
The fish in the bowl, only knows it’s in water when we take it out of the water.
So it is with truths. We only know we’re believing something automatically until it is questioned.
Dr. Georgina Cannon is an award-winning board certified clinical hypnotist and lecturer at the University of Toronto. Recognized as the “public face” of hypnosis in Canada and a respected member of the mainstream health community. Dr. Cannon is a frequent media guest, and her work and views have gained her prominence as a frequent source for news and feature articles on hypnosis and alternative therapies. Dr. Cannon has participated in Grand Rounds at Toronto hospitals, where she lectured to psychiatrists, physicians, nurses and social workers in the healing powers of hypnosis and regression work. Her third book, RETURN AGAIN to be released by Red Wheel Weiser September 2012.
