How are early beliefs formed and influence the personality of an adult? Early (or deep) beliefs are those beliefs that are formed in the head of a small child. Due to the fact that the brain of a small child is not yet sufficiently developed, he tends to accept very naive beliefs based on feelings and experiences, and not on objective reality. For example, the mother of little Sasha is forced to work hard to provide for herself and her son. She divorced her alcoholic husband, and her relatives have their own things to do, so they cannot sit with Sasha while her mother works. Therefore, Sasha is periodically forced to stay in kindergarten for a long time until his mother comes to pick him up from work. He also periodically stays at home alone for a long time, since Sasha’s mother has no one to leave him with. Since Sasha’s brain is not yet fully formed, and the situation of loneliness and abandonment needs to be somehow explained to himself, he can accept the irrational, that is, illogical decision based on the feelings experienced. Sasha can explain this situation to himself like this: “My mother doesn’t need me, she doesn’t love me,” or “I’m a bad boy, that’s why my mother doesn’t pick me up from kindergarten,” etc. And the saddest thing in this situation is that this an inherently irrational belief forms the basis of Sasha’s personality and becomes one of the fundamental, fundamental beliefs that will influence him all his life. And in those periods of his adult life, when Sasha is sad and lonely, he will unconsciously plunge into that same childhood a state of sadness, perhaps despair. And this emotional state can be the basis of depression, and often such people “go into the bottle” - they become alcoholics or drug addicts in order to somehow drown out this unbearable childhood pain of abandonment and loneliness. Technique for analyzing early memories according to A. Adler (modified) To To identify and understand your childhood beliefs, you can use the technique of analyzing early memories. This technique was developed by A. Adler, an Austrian psychologist, founder of the concept of individual psychology. The essence of the technique is very simple - you need to remember 3 of your earliest childhood memories up to about 7-8 years of age. These memories will need to be carefully analyzed to the smallest detail and all the most key experiences, feelings, emotions, thoughts, beliefs and decisions written down on paper. So, sit back, close your eyes and just trust yourself, your unconscious and allow any memory from your childhood to emerge into the area of ​​​​your consciousness. Which memory did you see first? What's happening to you? How old are you? What are you doing? What do you feel? Who do you see around you? Or are you alone? What are you going through right now? What happened to you? In connection with what is happening, what have you understood and learned? What decision did you make for yourself based on what was happening to you? What beliefs have you formed about yourself and others? After you have carefully analyzed the memory, you can move on to the next, earlier one. What event has surfaced now? Ask yourself all the same questions you asked yourself in the first memory. Is there anything similar or common between these two memories? Perhaps experienced feelings? Or the decisions and beliefs you have formed? Carefully analyze this earlier episode of your life. Write down your answers on a piece of paper. Next, move on to the third memory, a later one, which happened after the first. What's happening to you here? What do you feel, think, what decisions and beliefs dominate in you? Etc. After this, look at all 3 situations that have come up for you and notice if there is anything similar between them? Maybe the red thread running through all 3 situations is a certain message, belief, decision that formed the basis of your life scenario? If it exists, what does it sound like? Having analyzed all 3 memories and found something in common in them,