Hello my friends I'm Deepak Chopra. Welcome back to daily breath.

Our new series is called Total Meditation. For practical purposes,

stickiness, how past experiences get stuck in the first place can be approached through two of its aspects.

The first aspect is belief and the second aspect is emotions.

So for today let's talk about beliefs.

What is a belief?

In my opinion, a belief is a thought that you hold to be true.

Is it true? Well, if you hold it to be true, then it's true for you.

Experiences stick to us when we believe that they add something true to our personal story.

That personal story and the interpretation of the personal story in Eastern wisdom traditions is called

karma.

So the personal story gets stickier if there's a strong emotional charge that lingers around that story.

These experiences and therefore these beliefs are rooted in basically four ways.

There are four elements to rooted beliefs.

Number one, we believe the first person who told us something.

And that was probably a long time ago when we were children.

That's number one.

Number two, we believe things that are repeated often. Number

three we believe the people that we trust like our parents or our caretakers.

And number four we probably didn't hear a contrary belief.

Personal things our parents told us,

known as normative statements, are especially potent.

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