Is "Believing" Optional ?

[sakoz]

If believing is optional, you "don't have to" believe some of your images are real. Our brain "submits" images, but we don't have,to believe they are real, UNLESS you made a habit of'believing'.
Then your a candiate/volunteer for emotional suffering, dysfunctional behavior, stress, etc.  Guaranteed.  So let's check on "believing", in order to make better choices.
Is 'believing' biological/visceral  pre-cognitive? Is 'believing'  the interface between biology and cognitions? We learned language; did we learn to 'believe'?
If we stop unwittingly believing thought-images are real, then we  don't/won't make false/erroneous thoughts ABOUT them.  Emotional suffering etc. are the effects of believing some images are real; it's obvious if you don't believe some images are real, you stop the effects. Without 'cause' there's no 'effect'. If we react to accurate/correct perceptions from/of environment, what can go wrong? I'm fasinated by the placebo effect, which are reactions to our BELIEFS, instead of to fake pills. (Nocebo effects are more common). If we reacted directly to facts, we would be "in tune" with reality rather than reacting to illusionary images of our own making. We go to great lengths to 'correct' false cognitions. How many 'schools of psychology' are there?
If we don't react directly to facts, but to our thoughts ABOUT the facts, then it follows we better be damn sure our thoughts "match reality" Why the 'filter'? They more often than not 'betray' us.
Epictetus said it's not the facts that disturb us but our thoughts about the facts. Then let's make sure our thoughts are 'correct' and worth believing. Haven't you suffered enough already?
Those of you therapists, of all the myriad 'false' thoughts you hear via language, and language involves images. All those 'problem' thoughts can be reduced to a common denominator, believing thought-images are real. This is my "Unified Theory of Psychology",  Physicists are still looking for theirs.

[SWM]

When you say "your involuntary" are you referring to the central nervous system?