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Taking Responsibility for Your Own Beliefs and Behaviors<\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The world needs open hearts and open minds,
and it is not through rigid systems, whether old or new,
that these can be derived.” Bertrand Russell<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In my younger years, I was taught to believe religion (the version of it my church presented) was the only way the human race could be \u201csaved.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Being saved involved everything one needed to believe and do be successful in this life and avoid eternal punishment in the next.\u00a0 I tried that strict, often conflicted life-style for way too many years!\u00a0\u00a0 Disillusioned, I finally left the church in search of better answers.\u00a0\u00a0 And though it took a while, I found the keys to the happy, peaceful, productive life I so desperately wanted.<\/p>\n

I found them not in any one discipline, like religion, but in the best ideas from all disciplines\u2026.world religions and cultures, science, psychology, philosophy and so on.\u00a0 I\u2019ve shared these principles in my book, \u201cTO HEAVEN THROUGH HELL, A Book About Challenging and Changing Destructive Religious Beliefs<\/a>\u201d and on my website, www.choosinghealthybeliefs.com<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition, I\u2019ll be writing a series of posts on the three important phases anyone trapped in unhealthy beliefs and behaviors must go through to be free to control their own lives.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n