Pamala Oslie has created one of the notable writing on beliefs. Being a belief-guided individual herself, it is amazing to read through her book and finding out the rarely spoken about facets of this all-human experience.
She discusses about the power of beliefs and then delves into discovering, changing and creating them.
She gives the reader an immense challenge when she talks about the power of beliefs and how they affect literally everything and anything we do in life. One of her most remarkable quips is when she talks about perceptions and beliefs and says that,
“Our beliefs affect our perceptions, which in turn create our experiences. Our beliefs act like filters that allow only certain kinds of information to permeate our mind. We perceive life through these filters: we see life through the “coloured lenses” of our beliefs.”
It is illuminating that whatever a person does, whether good or bad, we’ll always filter their words, actions and beliefs through our own beliefs. Our beliefs act as the filters through which all information coming our way are sieved.
According to Pamala, beliefs can come from anywhere. From lies or from truths. It doesn’t matter as long as they have been accepted – believed. Since we do not take time to examine our beliefs, we end up holding on to self-limiting beliefs – self-limiting ideas, advises, experiences, and what’s said about us.
She encourages the reader to break off from the routinely set system of doing things, the rules and expectations set by others and define their own desired way – especially if the universal set systems are limiting to the release of the reader’s full potential.
What she ‘believes’ is in sync with what I have come to learn about the studies on the mind – conscious and subconscious alike, including what many other authors have written about beliefs, attitude, self-awareness, identity, and personal limits.
Even so, I was forced to check out her profile after I read through some conflicting statements about beliefs in God and His desires. It then made sense – the conflicts. She talks about ‘free will’ and ‘desires’ separately setting herself up for contradiction. For a believer, and for one who understands God’s will and His eternal desires, this section remains a penumbra.
Additionally, she talks about life creative adventure where she adds that there is “No right or wrong way to live,” therefore opening the flood gates for whatever desire the human heart/mind conceives. She ignores the role and purpose that God and our conscience plays in determining morality and right from wrong.
Other than that, this is a great book to help the reader understand about beliefs – best of which I believe was her input on the power and discovering of our beliefs.
Let me know what you think about it.
Gran Lectura.
