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What is a belief?

• An idea or judgement held as true or valid.
  • Learned through: direct experience, modelling others, indirect experience.
• Forms of Belief
  • Presupposition
  • Cause-Effects
  • Complex Equivalences
  • Values and Criteria
  • Content

The NLP Submodality Belief Change Process

• Belief
• Break State
• Doubt or uncertainty
• Break State
• Differences
• Break State
• Unwanted Belief
• New Belief
• Break State
• Unwanted Belief into Doubt
• Change Content of Old Belief into Content of New Belief
• Doubt into Belief
• Break State
• Test
• Future Pace

Conversational Belief Change

• Identify the limiting belief and a doubt, an uncertainty.
• Contrast the belief and the doubt to discover differences in how they are represented.
• Test each of these differences to determine which are the most powerful in changing belief into doubt.
• Design a new belief with which to replace the limiting belief.
• Anchor the belief spatially and tonally.
• Elicit Doubt: As you do, use spatial anchor and tonality to shift location.
• "What will be must useful to belief?" Design new belief.
• "As you let go of old certainties, making room for new learning, notice..." Introduce new belief using hypnotic language.
• Test.

The Walking Belief Change Process

• Current Belief
• Open to Doubt
• Museum of Old Beliefs
• Preferred Belief
• Open to Belief
• The Sacred Place

The Walking Belief Change Pattern

• Create a label for six locations of change: "Current Belief," "Open to Doubt," "Museum of Old Beliefs," "Preferred Belief," "Open to Believing," "The Sacred Place."
• Place the labels on the floor in a clockwise direction around an imaginary dinner table, as though they were place settings.
• Identify a Current Belief about yourself that limits you in some way.
• Identify what you would rather believe: your Preferred Belief.
• Now, establish a location anchor for each of the six labels. Physically step into each location of change, as you think of an experience which fits its description, and associate into that experience fully. It’s often most effective to use personal experiences and beliefs rather than philosophy or beliefs about the world. Notice where in your body each experience resides, what posture you naturally take, and notice what movements your body naturally makes in each location of change. (It’s also interesting to notice the visual, auditory and kinesthetic submodalities of each experience.) Break state between each location of change by stepping to the intermediate space, and shake off the feelings of the previous location before stepping into the next one.

Examples:

• • Current Belief: The belief that limits you in some way. "I’m dumb."
  • Open to Doubt: "Maybe I’m not repulsive." "Maybe the moon doesn’t follow the car."
  • Museum of Old Beliefs: "The tooth fairy." "Steaks grow in the meat section of the store."
  • Preferred Belief: The belief you’d rather have. "I can learn."
  • Open to Believing: "Maybe I am attractive." "Maybe the cold war really is over."
  • The Sacred Place: "Children must be protected from brutalization."
• Now, start at the beginning again. Step into the Current Belief location. This time, very slowly and gently, move the Limiting Belief directly into Open to Doubt (allowing the Belief to be transformed into Doubt) and then walk the Doubted Belief into the Museum of Old Beliefs (and allow it to be transformed). And now, physically place that former Limiting Belief near other former beliefs in the Museum of Old Beliefs.
• Now, step into the Preferred Belief location. Slowly and gently walk your Preferred Belief directly into Open to Belief (allowing it to be transformed), and then walk it into the Sacred Place (and allow it to be transformed).
• Finish by feeling the now-sacred Preferred Belief in your body and stepping directly into the Current Belief Location (letting it be transformed). Feel your Preferred Belief as something you Currently Believe. Repeatedly step between The Sacred Place and Current Belief several times.
• Now, step to one side and think of what you currently believe. How is it different than it was?

Well-formedness Conditions for a Useful New Belief

• It is stated in the positive, without negatives: "I can learn," rather than "I’m not dumb."
• It is stated as an ability or process, rather than having already achieved a desired goal. "I can reach and maintain my desired weight," rather than "I weigh 110 pounds."
• It has been checked to be sure it is ecological—that is, it is congruent with all the other outcomes the person has, in different contexts. All objections must be respected, and the new belief not created until all objections have been satisfied either by a) adjusting the new belief, or b) creating new ways for the objecting part to reach its outcome in the presence of the new belief.

Reimprinting

• Identify the specific images, sounds and/or feelings associated with the impasse. Anchor them and use them to remember the earliest experience of the feeling associate with the impasse.
• While still in the feeling, identify the generalizations or beliefs formed from that experience.
• Step out of the experience and watch it as if it were a film. Identify any other generalizations or beliefs formed as a result of the imprint experience, particularly those that might have formed after the fact.
• Determine the positive intent or secondary gain of the feeling of impasse. What did/does this feeling accomplish for you? Determine the positive intent of the significant others involved in the memory.
• Identify and anchor the resources needed by all significant parties in the event individually.
• For each significant person in the imprint experience, replay the film seeing how the experience would have changed if the necessary resources had been available to that person. Repeat for each person making sure that the added resources are sufficient to change the experience.
• What new beliefs/generalizations/conclusions would the person choose to create out of this experience.?
• Associate with each significant person in the event and relive the imprint experience from their point of view (one at a time). End by stepping into the younger self and experiencing it from that point of view. Repeat until this new experience is as strong as the original imprint.
• Revise beliefs/generalizations/conclusions from this experience.
• Maintaining the resources used throughout this process, move through time forward to the present, changing other experiences in light of this new experience. Look into the future noticing how these new resources will impact future situations, decisions, and patterns.
• Now go back and remember the impasse as you had previously. What is different now?