Reboot Your Mind: The Meta Yes, Meta No Belief Change Patterns
by Michael Hall
Douglas Cartwright
Copyright Douglas Cartwright 2011 Published by Living Words, Published at Smashwords
Index
4 What beliefs about yourself would you like to change?
5 What Can You Do With These Patterns?
6 Going Meta, SelfReflexiveness and the Step Back Skill
7 Emotional Energy and the Meta Yes/No
9 The Meta ‘No’ Pattern: For Creative Stubbornness
10 The MetaYes Pattern for Creating ‘True’ Reality
Chapter 1 Introduction
Welcome to the MetaYes, MetaNo Belief Change Patterns Course.
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to suggest you believe beliefs can be changed – or at least you hope they can – because you are reading this ebook. Well, they can, and in these chapters I’m going to tell you how.
My name is Douglas Cartwright, and I’m a trainer and Associate Certified Meta Coach fluent in the cognitive-behavioural technology of Neurosemantics, a proven way to realise positive and lasting change into your life.
I’ll be your guide through the two powerful belief change processes in this ebook: the Meta No and the Meta Yes Belief Change Patterns.
We’re going to talk about how beliefs – or believing works – and explain the processes involved as you change a belief.
You are welcome to go straight to the belief change process starting in chapter 9 although I recommend reading the other chapters to enrich your understanding and develop your skills in using these processes.
The patterns were created by L.Michael Hall Ph.d. and Bobby Bodenhammer Ph.d.. These patterns have been tested over ten years by thousands of participants in multiple countries. If you want to find out more about neurosemantics go to www.neurosemantics.com .
Chapter: Reboot your Mind One Belief at a Time: (or how the power of Yes and NO will revolutionize your life)
Will it? Will it really? You probably never thought that the directions you take in your life end up consisting of what you say ‘yes’ and what you say ‘no’ to.
For every thought or idea that has become a belief in your mind, it is there because you said a special kind of ‘YES’ to it. Either over time (as you gathered evidence for it) or sometimes instantly it became part of what is true for you about life (or some area of it).
Think about your convictions about what is right and wrong. Some you’ve inherited from your parents, you were told and shown examples of ‘right’ behaviour that was drummed into you over the years. When you grew older you may have seen an injustice repeatedly committed and grown a conviction that this had to stop.
You may have had a ‘lightning bolt’ moment when you just knew something was so. It may have been an idea for a new invention, it may have been the bolt of love.
I went on one date with the woman who is now my wife and was struck with such a heavy conviction that she was for me, I never wavered from it.
In each case you said YES to something and it became your truth.
The mind lives on beliefs
We may have started life as a basically ‘blank slate’ but as time goes on it gets filled with beliefs about ourselves, our ‘power’ to operate in the world, time, other people and the world around us.
We operate out of and from our beliefs. What I just wrote back there is a belief about how we operate. There is no getting away from it. We live and work and love and hate and succeed and fail – through our beliefs.
Through what beliefs do you see yourself?
What ideas do you see others through?
Truly, as a man thinks in his mind, so he is. So be careful what you say ‘yes’ to – you might just get it.
In our early years we may have said YES unknowingly, later perhaps even carelessly. We were like babies who just opened our mouths (minds) and swallowed what we were told.
Over
time we came to reinforce those YESES’s and NO’s.
We did this (and do this) because the mind tends to reinforce what you already believe. It looks for evidence to make us right in our own eyes. King Solomon of the Bible said this 3000 years ago. Nothing has really changed about humans since then….!
Furthermore, what we believe is not just an intellectual experience, it is a felt one: we bring our thoughts into our bodies and act them out in word, emotion and deed.
We feel angry, happy, and most other emotions. We live, love, lie and lash out because our beliefs have become embodied and incorporated in our flesh. They feel real.
As a result it might never occur to us we could believe something… different. Maybe if someone suggests we do, we say: “Well it’s allright for you to believe that…”
Do you ever consider that there are 5 billion people on this planet and because many of them believe different things to you – you might also be capable of believing something different?
Interestingly, we sometimes don’t consider changing our beliefs because we believe (!) to do so would be disloyal to the people who taught them to us. And what else would we believe? We can barely imagine it? (Read The Awesome Power of Two Words for help with this.)