Aarti SamaniMental health research, academic, Founder of yoga of Immortals & compassion unites, author, speaker

Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Reality

Name: Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Reality
Uploaded: 2025-05-21T16:26:05+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Aarti Samani
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that our thoughts and beliefs fundamentally shape how we interact with the world. Resilient individuals respond to…

21 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that our thoughts and beliefs fundamentally shape how we interact with the world. Resilient individuals respond to events differently than less resilient ones. The speaker illustrates this with the example of arachnophobia: a person with a spider phobia experiences intense cognitive and physiological reactions, whereas someone without that fear shows no such changes even when a tarantula is on their hand. The core claim is that the external object (the spider) remains unchanged; it is our belief system that determines our mental and bodily response.

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Our thoughts, our beliefs, they are extremely important because based on our beliefs, we will interact with the world that is around us. People who are more resilient interact differently with the world and with whatever happens to them, whereas other people who may not be so resilient have different approaches towards life. Sometimes I'm working with people who have phobia, and if somebody has arachnophobia, they will have a very intense reaction to that spider. They will be afraid, and it's not like it's all cognitive. If I will do physiological psychological research upon them, you will find everything in that body will change. There will be a deviation, whereas a person who has no fear of spider, tarantula could be on their hand and there is no change in their mind and their physiology. So the spider remains what it is. What changes is my own belief system and how I react with what is around me.