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A belief is the linguistic expression of something someone believes what someone believes to be true. Beliefs are in NLP an expression of inner models that each person continuously designs and must continuously design in order to orientate themselves in the world. Other terms for this are: convictions, attitudes, beliefs, opinions.
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Beliefs are generalizations (generalizations) about the "relations between experiences".
Beliefs are generalisations about:
with regard to:
Belief systems control the focus of our attention and thus determine what information we take in and how we interpret it. Beliefs are the big frame of any change work you do. When people really believe that they cannot do something, they will unconsciously find a way to prevent change from happening. They will find a way to interpret the results so that they are consistent with their existing beliefs. We have all adopted convictions, attitudes, expectations, beliefs from our culture and social form, derived them from our personal experiences, accepted them from other people, generated them from possible past traumas and generalised them from repetition. The American sociologist W.I. Thomas was one of the first to hold the view, which is known today, that reality is in its consequences as people perceive and define it. This means that the way I construct my world, the way I imagine it, influences my actions and activities. Everyone has belief or belief systems that are closely linked to their personal values and criteria and can have a significant impact on motivation, decision-making, performance.They shape both the will to live and the ability to cope with stress and also enable the development and shaping of positive life plans and needs. belief systems consist of several beliefs that support and reinforce each other.
Believe in your limits and they are yours. "What man believes, he can achieve." "All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in our belief patterns." Anthony Robbins
Below you will find some of the most common limiting beliefs, along with some facts and examples to help you think about them.
"I'm too young."
"I am too old."
"I do not have enough training."
"I don't have enough money."
"I lack the ability ....."
"I come from a simple background."
"My physical impairments prevent me from being successful."
Faith influences our body functions. Our body reacts as if what the mind believes were true. In addition, your behaviour is also significantly influenced by your beliefs and your faith. Once we have a really firm belief anchored in us, even massive information to the contrary will not upset us. We simply ignore them or consider them wrong. The mechanisms of generalisation, eradication and distortion described above are also good for this. Some people even believe they have to change the whole world just to get their faith right.
The body
A fine example of this is the story of a man who believes he is a corpse. He just sits there and claims to be a corpse. A psychiatrist comes and both argue for a while about whether the man is a corpse or not. Suddenly the psychiatrist gets an idea. He asks the man if corpses can bleed. Since all bodily functions have come to a standstill in a corpse, the man denies it and the psychiatrist stabs him in the finger with a needle. When the finger starts bleeding shortly afterwards, the man says: "Oh, I must have been mistaken. Corpses can bleed after all."
Cancer study
In an interesting study, one woman interviewed 100 "cancer survivors" in the hope of finding out what all these survivors have in common. She defined a cancer survivor as someone who had been diagnosed with "terminal cancer" with little chance of recovery, but who was still alive and healthy and still enjoying life ten or twelve years later. Interestingly, the researcher could not find any common patterns in the treatment of these patients. Different people had received different treatments, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, diet programmes, surgery, spiritual healing, etc. But there was one thing that all these survivors had in common: they all believed that the treatment they were getting would work for them. It was the belief, not the treatment, that made the difference.
Hypnosis with ice
Faith also sorts our perceptions. Through the network of beliefs in our head, messages get different meanings. This happens even on the level of the nervous system. We are able to reinterpret stimuli coming from outside via our faith. The description of an experiment will make this thought clearer: One touched test subjects under hypnosis with ice and at the same time suggested to them that it was a piece of hot metal. All of them developed burn blisters at the point of contact.
Intelligence tests at school
The two psychologists Rosenthal and Jacobsen in 1968 gave primary school pupils an intelligence test to work through. Then it was explained to teachers that these intelligence tests were not ordinary intelligence tests, but that the tests could predict the future intellectual development of the children. In this way, the teachers were given the expectation that these children would improve significantly in the future. By chance, 20% of the children have now been selected and named to the teachers as those who will show exceptional improvements in performance next year. In fact, the children were as good or bad as the others. When the children were retested a year later, it was found that the selected pupils had (significantly) higher increases in intelligence test scores than their classmates. The positive expectations of the teachers apparently had a direct effect on the performance of the pupils.
Beliefs are always associated with emotional reactions. The most common consequences of beliefs can be classified into the following categories of feelings:
In our development we go through three different phases.
From birth to the seventh year of life, we live through the period of imprinting, in which we absorb all events, images, sounds, feelings, tastes and smells.
In the subsequent modelling period we imitate our parents and other people we admire. This period lasts from about eight to thirteen years of age.
Then we are in the socialisation period, when we leave the family as adolescents and meet new people. During this period our social values and belief systems are trained.
An important source in the development of belief systems and beliefs are the direct personal experiences, which we have gained as conclusions and assessments about our environment, about the people in it and about our past experiences. Much of the information we receive about the world, about human relationships or about ourselves is also gained through language (media, books etc.) and in communication with other people. Information gained through direct experience or through verbal communication with other people forms the basis for conclusions and generalisations from these experiences and messages and shapes our belief systems and personal convictions. Subsequently, it plays a role which elements of present individual experiences we distort or erase in order to be able to maintain our beliefs as a generalisation from the past. During the child's development, it is primarily the parents who play a significant role in these generalisation processes. The personal "model of the world" is communicated to the child through verbal and non-verbal messages and meta-messages. These results become prerequisites for the child, because messages from the parents about the child, for example, can become messages from the child about itself. From the parents' statement about their daughter "You are so clumsy" becomes a girl's attitude of faith, "I am so clumsy, I can't."
Decisive factors for the formation and maintenance of our beliefs are reference experiences, environment, models and our self-programming through self-suggestions. Analyse yourself in these areas and ask yourself the following questions:
How do I have to perceive the world to get what I want? Which assumption supports me best in achieving my plans and goals?
The model is suitable for someone who wants to change their behaviour in a certain situation and does not know exactly how. The mentor technique is therefore suitable for stucco states that are to be enriched with new ideas. A mentor is a counsellor, an advisor, a benevolent or wise friend. The mentoring technique uses real or fictional mentors as a resource. These can be people that someone knows, has heard or read about, people from novels or films, fairy tale characters, animals, plants, mystical figures, abstract beings, guardian angels or even natural phenomena such as the ocean or mountains (basically anything that has a place and makes sense in the client's belief system). In situations where the client cannot identify the resources within him or herself to effect change, the mentor's position helps to identify or provide the desired resources. The use of mentors to find resources is known as the mentoring technique.
To install an attitude of faith, you can use the following instructions:
An imprint is an incisive experience from the past from which the person has formed a belief or set of beliefs. Such imprinting usually also involves an unconscious assumption of roles by other important people who have been involved in the process. The purpose of re-imprinting is to find the missing resources, change the belief system and adapt the role model developed there to the real and current circumstances of the person concerned. The format is as follows:
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