Our mental state and beliefs create what we experience. We've all been given beliefs by way of the environments we were brought up in, but to shift paradigms in our lives all we have to do is change our focus and rewrite the belief framework that generates our subconscious and conscious thoughts.
When we embrace new ideas and beliefs which will further benefit us and our growth (the cause) we are given the experience of such (the effect). All life is experience. And experience is always changing.