Changing a belief
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The following is a very mind blowing model of the world. If you are unwilling to find yourself noticing new things about your life, or if you are afraid to change your beliefs so that you may break through the bonds that hold you back from achieving those levels of success you have convinced your self that are a fact that can not be change. If you believe that you are limited in this way or uncomfortable the idea of making these kinds of changes, please read no further.
But if you are open to the possibility of real change, and know that you can achieve anything you can set your mind to also be warned that the following connected series of statements could have a very powerful and radical effect on your thoughts, so much so that you may find that in the days to come that you will begin to notice things about your life and the world around you in new ways that can be only totally interesting and helpful to you in all of your endeavors not only today, but for everyday into the future, starting now.
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I have mentioned previously that it is a fact that on average everyone goes in and out of trace at least 16 times everyday. I have found that this statement has been proven to be a falsehood and I would like to clarify further. It is more correct to say: We are all in trance at all times. We are all in what is classified as a clinical state of hypnosis, right now. How can this be? It is because you have built a model of belief and you’re using that model of belief to interpret the world around you. You are taking this model of belief and acting as if it is in fact, your life. You are acting as if it is the world, when in fact it is just an arbitrary set of beliefs, understandings, and perceptual filters that you have been trained to think is the world.
As a hypnotist my job is to break people free from these models of belief in such a thorough and professional way that one can not possibly go back to who they were when they first came to see me. I have had clients that had to leave the room after working out some problems in their lives that changed their belief systems so radically it literally caused them to throw up, simply because what happens is that belief systems have physiological consequences, have you ever had that kind of butterfly feeling in the pit of your stomach when your feeling uneasy or anxious? Have you ever considered that it could be that the mind controls the body? Have you ever felt that flush of exhilaration when you know that you have done something really well and you not only know that you did but other people know it as well? To effect real change in your life the first step is to understand that what you have believed to be true about your life and the world around you is nothing more than arbitrarily chosen beliefs. You may have been taught these things by people who care about or love you, or teachers and friends, or other people who could be described as people who are walking around like zombies all around you, I use the word zombie as a neutral phrase, the word zombie is a voodoo term for death within life, if you haven’t had a look around you lately, tomorrow morning or evening, please look around you in traffic, and you might notice that many people surrounding you with kind of almost dead look in their eyes, and this way you definitively know the zombies have moved to North America! But more seriously, my point is you need to understand two things: One everyone around you is asleep and it’s not their fault. Two up till now you have been asleep and it is your fault.
We live in a reality that states that we must learn to realize and accept the fact that your reality is your responsibility and you are in control of it. Think about it for a moment, this is a very liberating belief. After all if you are in control, well then you really can do anything that you want. No one cares, they are all asleep, it is a mistake to assume that people are going to come leaping out of doorways and around corners saying “NO, NO, NO, YOUR ENJOYING YOUR LIFE TOO MUCH! YOU THINK YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET THE THINGS YOU WANT? ...WE CAN’T HAVE THAT!” There are no thought police, you can achieve as much success and pleasure out of life that you truly want. The bad news about this is that anything you have made mistakes about for one reason or another is your fault, you messed it up on your own and are responsible not only for the act’s you have committed, but also the actions that have resulted from said actions. It was not the actions of other people, and it wasn’t how things were “supposed to be”.
If you can live with that, well then you are ready to accept a new concept in your life that states “There are no rules, only actions and consequences.” It is your job to think through what you want and how you are supposed to get it, and then ask yourself “can you live with the consequences?” Once you can do this you will then have a new model of belief that will serve you quite a bit better than the current model of being asleep. But also be warned that models of belief also contain traps. They contain traps that we can easily confuse as being what we would refer to as reality, why would we say that the realities contained in our new model of the world contains a trap that we could easily confuse as reality? Isn’t reality just reality? Sadly reality for most people is simply what happens inside of their own heads. Most people go through out life failing to apply reality checks to the things that mean the most to us.
For example: Let’s say you were going to buy a car, you might: do some extensive fact checking, look up how much horse power the motor has, what are the safety crash ratings, find out if it has the seating you might need, etc… You would probably do all this and more till you find a vehicle type you would like, then you go to the car lot, you know the salesman is going to try to squeeze you for every dollar he can, so you go, you haggle, you make a deal you can live with and you then get the car you want.
Now what about a career? In choosing careers people have the tendency to just launch themselves off into fantasy land to try to make this decision, without any basis of facts. They think about what kind of person are they, they use a model of themselves from the past as a basis for comparison for the future and try to guess what they might like to do everyday in the future. Is the person you used to be or are currently the person you will always be? No, the nature of our minds and emotions is to change. Not to mention how often do we find things that we think we might like, food, movies, friends, etc… and find that in truth we are less than satisfied with the thing we had found or the results we get from having it in our lives?
These types of thoughts are called models of possibilities. Models of possibilities are short cuts we use in our minds that allow us to do things with out utilizing too much of our time thinking about the potential futures and outcomes in our lives. In order to escape these convenient models you must begin to make decisions that are fixed once your have made them. So first you will need to decide what it is that you want, next you make the decision of where this new choice you have now made is going to lead you in your life. In doing this what you are actually doing is creating a new model of belief that once you being to wake up to your new model of the world and live in it even for a short time, that if you just look back and remember your old model of belief that was changed it will greatly disturb you.
Your fantasies about what is possible and impossible in your life are just that, a fantasy. Do you know the difference between a dream and a fantasy? A fantasy is a thought form that allows us to think of imaginary things and events that carries no weigh or emotional charge. A dream is a thought form that is so emotionally charged and carries so much mental weight in our minds and emotions that we make it become truth in our lives. Most of the things we wish for in our lives we treat as fantasies, as if were never meant to have those things we wish for. It is easy to sit and imagine how nice it would be to walk out tomorrow to a store buy a lottery ticket and then later that week find yourself a winner of some odd number of millions of dollars. But think for a moment, what happens when the average person buys a lottery ticket? Do they buy them expecting to win? Would you choose a career by the same method? Would you pick a potential girlfriend or wife in the same way? Probably not, after all just picking the first person you find sight unseen and saying “marry me!” was proven to be a pretty bad idea by a bad reality TV show not to long ago.
Beliefs however are tools of the mind, which are formed when one couples thought with emotion. Now the tendency of the mind and the body is to stay at rest, and given half the chance it will stay that way or return to that state as often as it can. What you want to build is a system of beliefs that will in fact open opportunities for new experiences and continuous opportunities to lean new things. We can do this by taking our goals and the things we truly want to get out of life and turn then into a belief system that includes the ideology that once you reach this goal you will continue this process adding more and more beliefs to the system to so that we may sustain a system within ourselves that will assist us in a life of continual achievements and success. How do we get there? First we must learn to abandon our attachments to the eventual out come you will achieve. Because striving for just the individual out come actually stops the process of achievement, therefore by having another belief that continues after the original goal we began striving for we will have instead of just a goal that is to be achieved we create a pattern of success that will begin today and continue through out the rest of our lives that will make successfully reaching our goals and making all of our dreams coming true a pattern instead that will be perfectly normal for us in our everyday lives, instead of being the exception to what we normally see everyday and would view as failure or disappointment.