How to work on your DOGMA
Jyoti Gupta
Clinical & Counseling Psychologist | Rehabilitation Psychologist | Relationship Therapist| Trauma Therapist| Mindfulness & Compassion Teacher | Psychotherapist | Mentor for Therapist|
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Dogma is a belief so strongly held that it becomes the truth. It’s an ideology so stubbornly held that it doesn’t allow for any new evidence or ideas to change it. It especially resists conflicting ideas from the outside world.
What makes dogma so dangerous is that it doesn’t allow for new and conflicting information. And in a world that is changing ever faster, holding onto to old beliefs—beliefs that may no longer serve you—can really makes you uncomfortable and anxious .....which leads so many problems In your life...dogmatic demands don’t help you, they trigger unhealthy negative emotions and give you poor psychological results ...
Here’s how to work on your Dogma...
??Allow Your Beliefs to Be Questioned
The first step in avoiding having your beliefs become dogma is not to judge all ideas by your existing beliefs. Instead, you remain open to new ideas, especially ideas that conflict with your existing beliefs. You hear people out without making any judgments about right or wrong, truth or lie.
It’s not easy, but there is power to be found in taking in new ideas, especially ideas that conflict with your existing beliefs.
??Purposely Seek Conflicting Ideas
Ideas that are in direct conflict with what you believe can be powerful in improving your results.
Try to find the truth in the ideas that conflict with what you believe. Try to discover when those ideas could be valuable.
??Become Agnostic
Being agnostic means being open to using whatever works and whatever the circumstances demand. In a rapidly changing world, you need flexible thinking .
Being agnostic doesn’t mean you don’t believe anything rather than You use what works when it’s useful, and you discard what doesn’t work when it isn’t useful.
you can remain open to new ideas. You use them by their useful under some set of circumstances.
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