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

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

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?