so this ‘truth’ thing…
any actual downside to believing in false things to make urself happy?
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"believing in false things" is already a frame that sneaks in a bunch of assumptions: that beliefs exist, that they can be separated cleanly into true or false, that the part of you that believes some belief is false is more correct than the part of you that wants to believe it
an alternative might be like "trying on this way of seeing things to see what effects it has"; this stuff can become very much about empiricism imo!
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e.g. is "people are fundamentally good" true or false? who knows! what does that even mean!!! but "trying on seeing people as fundamentally good" is something you can actually do, without needing to commit to it
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This thread nails it in my view.
Most difficult part of the initial frame is what you hit on in your last point above - some part of you believes it’s “false”
totally!
I’ve found asking “what if it’s possible that <reality I want>?” the most powerful tool. creates hope, direction, playfulness without requiring me to ‘believe’ any particular thing
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ya know, I’ve hated affirmations & CBT since discovering them years ago. found them invalidating.
but recently I’ve contacted a space of “write access” (versus read-only access) to my beliefs
& from there I dig affirmations. they lovingly create a new reality for future me.
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