From the moment you were born you were observing, recording and learning about life. How to garner love and affection from your parents or care givers. How to protect yourself from harm and future hurt.

You modified your behaviour to please your parents. You changed your fundamental self to fit in with the family rules.

You got domesticated.

During nursery or kindergarten you learned how to adapt again to fit in with your peers and avoid exclusion and rejection from the group.

During early school you sought more evidence to confirm what you learned. You learnt about you, others and the three dimensional world.

These lessons learnt are called beliefs. Most of your beliefs were installed by around age seven. Beliefs got added or modified over the course of your life but your core beliefs were learnt during your very early life.

Beliefs are made when you had a strong emotional reaction to the lesson learnt or you acquired repeated and consistent evidence to back up the belief to believe it was true.

Most of your beliefs are unconscious. They're just there. But what you probably didn't know is that these beliefs are determining the quality of your whole life.