Deprogramming Your Beliefs
- Abigail Morris
- Jul 17, 2025
- 2 min read
We all like to think we’ve come to our beliefs consciously. That we know who we are, what we stand for, and why we live the way we do. But unless you’ve done a deep excavation of your belief system and the societal structures around you, chances are… your beliefs aren't rooted in your truth at all.

They’re rooted in the ideologies, expectations, and limitations of the world you were born into.
Your Belief System Is a Product of Inherited Stories
From the moment you entered this world, you began absorbing the narrative around you:
Religion or lack thereof
Cultural values, family dynamics
Race, class, gender, and location
Education, trauma, history, and media
These systems handed you a worldview before you ever had the chance to decide for yourself. If you had been born anywhere else, your entire identity and beliefs would likely reflect that place instead. Let that sink in.
What most people cling to as “truth” is often just programming, a hand-me-down set of beliefs we treat like gospel.
Free Will Doesn’t Exist Without Awareness
Until we begin to question those inherited beliefs, until we get radically honest with ourselves about why we believe what we believe, we’re not actually exercising free will. We're just reenacting a script we didn’t write.
This kind of deprogramming work takes:
Courage to face the discomfort of not knowing
Humility to admit what no longer aligns
Self-trust to release what we’ve clung to
Ruthless honesty to call out the illusions
And most people? They’re either unaware this programming exists, or too afraid to unravel it.
Deprogramming Leads to Soul-Rooted Belief
There’s deep power in becoming curious. When you allow yourself to sit in the tension of unlearning, you start to hear something new:Your soul’s truth.
You can then discard the beliefs that no longer serve you, that don’t align with your values, that don’t uplift humanity. This is how you begin living from a place of sovereignty, not survival.
Freedom doesn't begin with choice it begins with awaremness. Until we dismantle the stories that don't resonate with our soul, we are not choosing our path, we are reacting to our programming.




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