Why Is Changing Your Own Beliefs So Hard ?

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]So, the the vulnerability of the of the conscious mind is to fear, confusion, despair. Right? There's so many things that that we can fear. Right? Some people are afraid of snakes or spiders.

[00:00:12]Some people are afraid of death. Some people are afraid of health issues that could come to them or to people they love. We can get confused and not know what decisions to make and how to navigate the world and how to be who we want to be to ourselves and to others.

[00:00:25]Right? We can feel tremendously vulnerable and despairing if we lose others or we know we start to see things happening in the world around us that that that we don't like. Right? We start to feel like, "What will happen to the planet we live on? Will there be war where I live? Will my children be safe?"

[00:00:42]Right? There's so much that we need to protect ourselves against. So, that vulnerable part of of us, right? The part of the iceberg sticking out above the water needs a defensive structure around it to protect it against the vulnerability of fear, confusion, despair. Right? And because the conscious mind is is sticking out of the water with a defensive structure around it, right? It is the the raw material from which we create our character structure. So, the character structure is all of that. The part