May 4, 2006
Reprogramming Past Negative Beliefs
Our Beliefs are Powerful Forces. They shape our world, our self-image, and even our physical bodies. Unfortunately we all carry negative or unwanted beliefs from our past. Yet, did you know that these past beliefs can be over-written? Just like a VCR-recorder, your mind can be very susceptible to programming. Here’s Burt Goldman’s advice on how to re-program unwanted past beliefs.
When, through past programming, the mind associates an event
with some traumatic occurrence, that trauma gestates and produces illness,
disease, and other bodily problems.
A better understanding of mind would be through metaphor. The
brain is like a computer. The mind is like the software. A computer without
software cannot be programmed. Nor will a spreadsheet program produce
a novel, for that you would need a word processing program.
The mind absorbs all the material input from parents, teachers,
family, friends and media. When a child is brought up by loving parents
love software is programmed and the child learns love. When a child is
brought up by abusive parents abusive software is programmed and the
child/adult learns all about abusiveness. It is possible for a child of loving
parents to be an abusive adult, but the process would be more difficult
and would have been programmed by someone other than the parent.
Because the mind is so easily programmed, it can be just as easily
reprogrammed. A simple example of programming and the mind could be
that of a cassette tape. A cassette tape has a beginning and an end. A song
near the beginning of the tape could be likened to the programming on
the inner conscious mind. If you wanted to get rid of the song at the
beginning of the tape you could do in any one of three ways.
- You could cut the song out and splice the tape.
- You could erase that part of the tape.
- You could record over that segment of the tape.
Material in the mind that causes you to be the person you are is
similar in that much of the programming has taken place at an early age.
Various therapeutic methods attempt to locate and correct that
programming. When you liken the mind to the tape the metaphor clarifies
the problem.
As example: Say that you wish to correct a problem. A person
has been programmed to believe that to be thin is to be ill and that a
husky, overweight body, is a healthy, protective body. Say that program
was installed at the age of eight.
You could get rid of that program in a similar 3 ways.