“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
We all have two types of beliefs, explicit and implicit. Your habits are mainly formed or created around your beliefs. Now, based on this, you can see the importance of your beliefs, they dictate what habits you create.
As human beings, we are creatures of habits; we are what we repeatedly do. So our dreams and success in life is fully dependent on our beliefs and habits.
In the field of neuroscience, our beliefs are classified as explicit and implicit.
Explicit beliefs
These are conscious and simple beliefs like “I am able to make more money”, “I am able to lose weight”, “I am able to have great relationships”, “I deserve to live a happy life”. So an explicit belief is a belief that is easy to verbally share with others.
Implicit belief
This is a belief more deeply rooted in the brain, specifically the unconscious brain. There’s a part of your brain called the cerebellum which manages many of the ingrained and conditioned motor skills and behaviours. This is the main reason most people procrastinate.
Our hidden dis-empowering implicit belief can be the one that says to yourself “I am not good enough”, “I am not smart enough”, and “I don’t deserve the goal or dream that I want to achieve”. And that’s lurking in your subconscious mind.
Even when you have an explicit belief you can declare, that is in opposition to the implicit belief, you will, unfortunately, succumb to the unconscious implicit belief and you’ll take actions that match: “I’m not smart enough”, “I don’t deserve my goals and dreams”, and “I’m not good enough”.
