Belief.

I am an educated women; but I’ve still had to resort to the dictionary to really pin this one down. It says: “something that somebody believes in – a statement, principle or doctorine that a person or group accepts as true”.

I hadn’t given the word a lot of consideration until recently. Belief was all about religion and ideas; it hadn’t really entered the therapeutic vocabulary.

This was quite an oversight.

Belief is right at the centre of everything. What you believe about yourself is so important that I didn’t even consider it. The link between thought and action is so obvious that I totally missed it. And had to go right back to the beginning.

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When you reach a certain age, running around with no clothes on stops being socially acceptable.

It’s the best example that I can think of to show how we learn about the intangible things. How an emotional experience can be as tangible as a physical one.

The hot pan analogy started me thinking about how we form beliefs about things. Adam and Eve have taken it a step further. We don’t just form physical beliefs. We also form emotional ones.

And I think that it works in the same way as the burning pan scenario. We learn by reaction.

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