What keeps beliefs alive?

• Caroline: Introduction II by Vic Comello, 4/4/98
  
  

"The reality I'm trying to address is that behaviors and beliefs learned in childhood persist even though other memories fade. What keeps these alive and operating in a person's psychological life?" The questions you are trying to address are very important and have significant ramifications for how we might help people change. I wonder if one of the factors might be that it isn't safe enough for people to try to change beliefs learned in childhood until they have an experience that suggests that there might be a different outcome. The danger of re-traumatization must be lowered first ? Repeated dreams may help people to work out the what's and why of their experiences with the hope that the dangers could be understood and avoided. Would this fit with your ideas. I have enjoyed reading them , thank you so much for posting them.

• The Discomfortable Process of Growth by Vic Comello, 4/16/98