Global Belief

Global belief is belief which cope sub-belief. Global belief is a generalization about people, money, life, work, type of opponent, the world, and life in general.

To be able to understand how belief work, we need to understand that in every word or sentence -- if we analyze -- will contain two structures of meaning. First, surface structure. Second, deep structure.

Please spend a little time to finish the sentences below. Take your paper and pen. Then copy the following sentences and complete it relaxed. Don't be too serious while you think about it. When you read the sentences below, just write anything comes from your mind.

Remember, once again, you don't need to analyze anything.

Life is .....................................................................
Money is ................................................................
Love is ...................................................................
Success is ..............................................................
Husband/Wife is ..................................................
Son/Daughter is ...................................................

Have you finished this task? If you haven't, my advice is "please don't continue reading, please finish this task first". If you've finished it, let's continue.

Let's analyze some answer that I often get from some people who ever been asked by me. When I ask, "Life Is ........", then I get the answers:

1. Life is a suffering.
2. Life is a struggle.
3. Life is activity before death.
4. Life is a journey.
5. Life is something that changes and grows.
6. Life is a maturity process.
7. Life is process of growth and development.
8. Life is a series of experience.
9. Life is a grace of God.
10. Life is process of searching self-identity.
11. Life is a movement, not a halt.
12. Life is a challenge.
13. Life is a game.
14. Life is a beautiful melody to be enjoyed.
15. Life is boring.
16. Life is a blessing from God that must be filled with precious things for ourselves and the others.

Can you feel the difference of life quality from each people which give me the answers above?


Let's analyze statement "Life is a suffering".

Surface Structure:
My life isn't fun because I always get suffering

Deep Structure, among other:

1. Life is useless, because I'll never be happy.
   
2. Anything I do won't change my suffering.
3. My suffering will end when I die.
4. It's truly a great misfortune and bad luck because I was born as a human.
5. I hate myself, my family, and everyone.
6. Society and environment is dangerous and wild place.
7. Married is useless because finally I'll keep unhappy.

How about the statement "Life is a blessing from God that must be filled with precious things for ourselves and the others"?

Surface Structure:
Life is a gift that should be used as well as possible.

Deep Structure, among other:

1. God is omniscient and majestic.
2. I was a special person because I get blessing from God.
3. I am so grateful because I was born as a human.
4. Life is an opportunity to develop myself.
5. Life is an opportunity to do goodness for the others.
6. I study and work seriously.
7. If I'm failed, I will keep on trying until it's done.
8. I certainly can.

How about the statement "Money is the root of all evil"?

Surface Structure:
Money is not good.

Deep Structure, among other:

1. Money will be a stumbling block.
2. Money is a bad influence.
3. I didn't want to be rich, because the richer I am, the more money I have, it means I am an evil.
4. Rich people usually are evil.
5. Poor people usually are good people.
6. Rich people must be punished because they're evil. Poor people should be defended because they're good people.
7. Rich people doesn't have spirituality, poor people have high spirituality.
8. There's a time when rich people will go to hell, poor people will go to heaven.
9. No need to study or work seriously because if I get much money, I'm afraid I'll be an evil.
10. I'll be looking for job that give me a little salary.

Global belief can be strengthen or weaken. Therefore, make sure to choose belief that strengthening you, example:

1. Money gives me freedom and choices to reach intellectual, material, and spiritual potential.
2. Life is a gift and give me chances to make positive difference in the world.

These are the examples of global belief that I get from people around me. You can feel and analyze the effects of each belief:

Money is:

1. Symbol of success or wealth.
2. The output of dream.
3. Something that's easy to get for my happiness and my family.
4. Dream to be realized.
5. Tool to achieve the satisfaction of living.
6. Necessity.
7. Property.

Love is:

1. Beautiful affection.
2. Something that's very meaningful.
3. Part of ourselves that needs friendship, relationship, comitment, loyalty, and desire to beatify ourselves and the others.
4. True-hearted feeling from deep inside heart.
5. Honey from the affection.
6. Force of life.

Husband/Wife is:

1. Wife is the heart moorings.
2. The soul in achieving goals.
3. Friend in achieving various success.
4. Symbol of success family.
5. Friend in love and grief.
6. Friend to share feelings.
7. Husband is the cash machine.

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