What are Your Core Beliefs?

Are They Positive or Negative

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In this series on core beliefs, we are discussing how these self-imposed and self-defining thought patterns can either help or hinder you and your life. Because of childhood maltreatment, many survivors are left struggling to find who they are and struggling with many core beliefs that are not helpful.

This article will focus on how core beliefs alter our self-perceptions and what you can do to change them to be more effective.

Again, What are Core Beliefs?

We broached this subject in the last article, but it is critical to make sure that we know what core beliefs are. Core beliefs are deeply held internal ideas that interact with a person to form how they see themselves and the world.

Core beliefs come in one of three flavors; helpful, unhelpful, or neutral. Because core beliefs make up such a large part of a person’s view of the world, they may be difficult to recognize and identify.

Negative core beliefs are unhelpful in that they tend to interfere with a person’s ability to function. These thought patterns negatively affect the mental health of those living with them forcing the person to feel overall dissatisfaction with their life.