This document discusses belief systems and how they can impact individuals and societies. It defines belief systems as organized ways of viewing the world that typically include moral codes. Religions are considered belief systems that incorporate beliefs about gods. The document outlines several major world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It also discusses other belief systems like Legalism and Humanism. While belief systems can positively impact areas like medicine through placebo effects, they can also negatively influence individuals and societies through actions like punishing oneself, witch hunts, or terrorism committed in the name of those beliefs. Controlling beliefs is connected to controlling the mind through positive engagement and proper motivation.

1. Belief Systems

2. What are belief systems?
 Believe is something that you feel right.
 Belief systems are organized ways to view the world
 Typically include a moral code, or way to live life
 Religions are belief systems with a god(s)
 Monotheistic- one god
 Polytheistic- more than one god

3. Religious Believe
Hinduism-
 Started in India
 Founded through cultural diffusion from the Aryans
Buddhism-
 Started in India, but moved to Southeast Asia
 Founded by Siddhartha Gautama
Confucianism-
 Started in China
 Founded by Confucius
 No god
Judaism-
 Started in the Middle East, practiced worldwide
 Founded by Abraham/Moses
• Each of these religions focuses on living in harmony with nature and nature
spirits (making them polytheistic)

4. Christianity-
 Started in Israel, currently practiced worldwide
 Founded by Jesus (the Messiah)
Islam-
 Started on the Arabian peninsula, currently practiced worldwide but
primarily in the Middle East
 Founded by Muhammad

5. Other Belief Systems
 Legalism
 China- based on the idea that humans are evil and harsh
punishments are needed to keep order in society
 Humanism
 Renaissance Europe- focus on humans/individuals and life
on earth instead of on God and Heaven

6. Effect of believe system
On Medicine
 Psycho-neuroimmuno system- it is known as placebo effect,
Doctor use false medicine to cure their patient from severe
diseases like cancer, kidney failure, heart diseases etc.
On life
 There are several examples of people who has nothing but
they change every thing just by believing on themselves
 ARUNIMA SINHA- An up girl who lost her legs by a train
accident but she climbed up all the seven peaks of the
world with her artificial legs
 Gandhi, Mandela, Lincoln , Hittler

7. Negative effects
Terrorists-
 Peoples believe that killing each other in the name of
jihad and thinking that they were right.
Punishing your self-
 Eastern India people walking on fire thinking that their
god is pleased by it
 Witch hunting in 18th century
 Giving human sacrifices for better yield
 Superstition

8. How to control believe
 Controlling believe is proportional to the mind control.
 Mind control is nothing but engaging your brain in a
positive way
 Making some one believe is called as motivation
 A good motivation from right people can lead you in
right way but a wrong motivation changed your life.
 Believe in your self is confidence, but over confidence
can destroy you.

9. Conclusion
 It can make you or it can break you.
 You can become strongly mental or you can come
mentally strong
 You can have endless hope or hopeless end.
 Man becomes challenge from mind not from his mind