“We each have a deep hunger to believe in something or someone.”

We all know the conventional adage, "Seeing is Believing." But what if we turn it around and consider, for instance, "Believing is Seeing"? We often cannot see something until we commit to believing it or in it.

We will explore how our beliefs serve us as infrastructures that support our life by offering a sense of coherence, meaning, and purpose. We will also notice how the stories we tell ourselves and others, as well as those told to us, can become reference points for our personal myth in narrative form. We are in a period in the history of competing belief systems, so it is a perfect time for each of us to reflect on the beliefs that we hold dearly and offer our lives a shape and meaning that we may not be able to have without them.

We each have a deep hunger to believe in something or someone. How we choose or are persuaded to interpret an event, a set of facts, or an opinion will become our reality that we then integrate to give us solid ground under our feet.

We will also explore how we carry our beliefs in our bodies. We embody our beliefs. What we believe can improve or work detrimentally on our overall health.

Finally, beliefs are all based on a good dose of Trust. We need to trust our beliefs and reexamine them periodically to ensure that they are organic, not brittle, helpful, and not limiting, and serve the common good of ourselves and the larger community.