Good, Bad, or Just Belief? The Superstitions We Call Truth
Introduction – The Provocation
What if everything you’ve been told about what is good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, right or wrong… was no different from a superstition?
What if the “black cat crossing the road” was no different from the list of “never eat this, always do that” rules we’ve been raised with?
We swear by them, not because they are universal truths, but because we believe them to be true.
The Nature of Belief – From Black Cats to Broccoli
Superstitions are everywhere:
Don’t walk under a ladder.
Break a mirror, and you’ll face seven years of bad luck.
Sleep with wet hair, and you’ll get sick.
They are powerful not because of their factual basis, but because of the weight of belief we attach to them. And isn’t food, health, even morality, taught to us in the same way? One generation says butter is deadly, another calls it “back to basics.” One pill heals one person and harms another — not because the substance itself changes, but because of the energy, expectation, and belief projected onto it.
The placebo effect proves this: sugar pills heal when we believe they will. Equally, side effects emerge when we fear they might. Belief is the true medicine — or poison..
Beyond the Means – You Are Not the Things You Use
Life on earth gives us means — food, medicine, objects, systems. But they are not us. You are not the pen, you are the writer. You are not the car, you are the driver.
So why do we belittle ourselves to the size of the pen, or shrink our identity to the shell of the car? Why do we identify ourselves with the food we eat, the house we live in, the labels we wear, or even the bodies we inhabit?
Think about it: when you leave this earth, none of these things go with you. You take no clothing, no bank account, no food, no title. If they truly were you, wouldn’t they come along? Life itself makes the point clear: they were never you. They were simply the means you used.
Yet most of us live as if we are the things we use. We confuse our essence with the tools in our hands. And in doing so, we forget the most important truth: you are beyond it all.
So pause and ask yourself:
Who am I beyond what I consume, own, or control?
Who am I without the labels and the means?
Am I the tools, or am I the one using them?
The Real Distraction
The greatest distraction is not the so-called “bad” food, or the “toxic” habit, or the superstition. The real distraction is identifying yourself with the means you’ve been given. It is living as though the outside defines the inside.
When you attach your identity to what you use, you lose sight of the one who uses them. You get lost in the illusion that the pill has power, or the rule has authority, or the object has control over you. But it is always your belief — your energy — that charges it with meaning.
Ask yourself:
Why am I getting distracted by the tools, when I am the one who chose them?
Why do I treat the temporary as eternal, when it is only here for a moment?
Why do I allow myself to become smaller than the things I use, when they were placed here only for me to experience life through?
You can participate in the distractions — nothing is wrong with that. But never forget: they are not you. They are only the mirrors, the stage, the props of life. The essence of who you are remains untouchable, beyond definition.
The Choice – What Do You Want From Life?
At the heart of it all lies one question: What do you want from life?
Every belief, every superstition, every definition of “good” or “bad” — they are only meaningful in relation to what you are seeking from your experience here. If you want health, peace, joy, growth — then your beliefs will either serve you in that direction or hold you back. The choice is yours.
So ask yourself:
Are the beliefs I carry moving me toward the life I long for?
Or am I following them blindly, forgetting that they are not absolute, but choices I once agreed to?
Do I want to live as the echo of what I’ve been told, or as the conscious creator of my experience?
The beauty is, you can choose. You can choose to hold on to a belief if it serves you. You can choose to let it go if it doesn’t. You can create new meanings altogether. Life does not punish or reward the belief itself — it simply reflects what you have chosen to believe.
This is your freedom. This is your responsibility.
Conclusion – The Power is Yours
Everything you’ve been told, everything you’ve absorbed, is no more solid than superstition. The power is not in the cat crossing the road, the food on your plate, or the pill in your hand. The power is in the belief you attach to it.
So the next time you are told what is “healthy,” “right,” or “true,” pause and ask:
Does this belief align with who I am and what I want from life?
Or is it just another superstition I’ve mistaken for truth?
Remember: you are not the things you use. You are not the beliefs you’ve been told. You are the one who chooses.
