Limiting beliefs

“The quality of life is intensely important, and is to a large extent dependent upon a sense of well-being and self-confidence.  While these attributes are expressed in the body, they also exist in the mind, and there are some cumbersome mental beliefs that may severely impede mental and physical well-being. …

“One of the greatest detriments to mental and physical well-being is the unfortunate belief that any unfavorable situation is bound to get worse instead of better.  That concept holds that any illness will worsen, any war will lead to destruction, that any and all known dangers will be encountered, and basically that the end result of mankind’s existence is extinction.  All of those beliefs impede mental and physical health, erode the individual’s sense of joy and natural safety, and force the individual to feel like an unfortunate victim of exterior events that seem to happen despite his own will or intent.

“The ideas I have just mentioned are all prominent in your society, and now and then they return to darken your senses of joy and expectation.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 9, 1984)