It is absolutely necessary that the observation of mental material be the first practice so that the disciple can become sufficiently familiar with this material, with the nature of its material, to identify what belongs to this mental sphere, and the mechanisms that arise and unfold there, disappear, and replace one another.
This is particularly true of attachment to beliefs. The disciple, once familiarized and educated through practice, is able to realize that attachment to beliefs is no less likely to cause him suffering, since it fundamentally stems from the same mental material, since it comes from the same substrate as attachment to any other outcome, process, event, mental universe, self-representation, or artificial identity construction.
Notes & Silence 
Having been through the cognitive dissonance of walking away from a belief system, yes, the attachment is powerful and can cause distress. Many define themselves by their beliefs, consequently.
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