CONTENTS
Create a solid foundation
The milestones
Suggested prior learning
Initial tests plus measuring progress
Making the commitment
Practicing basic thought management.
Restructuring the beliefs
Part I. Re-Form the beliefs
Part II. Completely install the new beliefs
Part III. Implement new actions
Measure the final result
Appendix.
Necessary beliefs to master as a foundation
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CREATE A SOLID FOUNDATION!
This program is designed for those who want to have a solid foundation of beliefs to eliminate anxiety, stress, and self-criticism and to have happiness and who are willing to do the necessary work. The work will start to have clear benefits after only a short while and will produce more benefits before finishing the project than the cost of time for the total project.
Most people have done a portion of this on a dilettantish basis, using it at a very surface level and not even implementing even 50% of what is needed.
This program is what is needed to actually create new beliefs that will accomplish your having a whole new life that is a happy and effective one. Without the completion, you'll keep more of what doesn't work.
Please make the commitment!
Your result is that you will have such a true foundation that you do not slip back to lower levels, as opposed to what happens in the superficial and/or less complete types of approaches. It's permanent! And it's yours to keep for life!
THE MILESTONES
Along the way to the final result, there are milestones that indicate you have progressed to a new level that is sufficient for now. Some may be revisited later, when appropriate, to crank up to the next level.
Some milestones can be worked toward simultaneously with others, if you wish, as parallel tracks to work on alternately, but all with sufficient time and regularity devoted to them. Milestone 1 (knowing where you are starting) can be done before Milestone 2 (adequate working knowledge of beliefs). Milestone 3 (commitment, for a reason) can be done anytime.
Thought control can be practiced while gathering one's actual beliefs. Conversion of beliefs to healthier ones can be done simultaneously (or any time) to the gathering of the beliefs themselves, though you should follow the schedule suggested for finishing them in a set period.
Gathering of affirmations and beliefs from other sources, by category of type, can be done while formulating affirmations and while studying the basic life affirmation, though it should be done earlier in general, as they are necessary for formulating your final (for awhile) basic set of beliefs that you will install.
Hopefully, you get the idea - regardless of how many you are working on, each must get adequate time and continuity so that each is progressing solidly.
START INITIAL TESTS PLUS MEASURING PROGRESS
To measure our progress and/or to just have a starting point,
___ Milestone 1. Knowing where one is on the scales, so one has a base from which to develop further, especially having deeper insight into the details of what is causing the undesired effects in one's life. (Send the completed evaluations to your coach/counselor.)
SUGGESTED BASIC PREP LEARNING:
___ It is helpful to know what our needs actually are
___ The basics about beliefs (just this long page, for now)
___ Milestone 2. Attainment of a basic rudimentary working knowledge of beliefs, so one can work with them productively and appropriately with little wasted effort and more prolonged effect.
MAKING THE COMMITMENT
Commit to what is necessary to create a new belief system that will produce happiness!
page. It is called Checklist For What I Believe About Changeability.
__ Acknowledge that beliefs can be changed for a good effect.
___ Milestone 3. Having committed to successful completion, to building a strong foundation, recognizing the desired effect that this will have on one's life. (Copy to one's coach/counselor so that he/she can know you are committed, in a more detailed way than some general statement.)
PRACTICING BASIC THOUGHT MANAGEMENT
It is very acceptable and often recommended to skip over this to go ahead with the beliefs gathering and modifying process that continues after this, coming back to this later - at some point the "Masters" learn to stop the negative in its tracks and to automatically bring in the "empowering" (true, workable) beliefs.
___ Milestone 4. Attaining the level of thought control where one believes one is controlling one's thoughts well 80% of the time. (Work on this might continue through a number of milestones listed for later.)
RESTRUCTURING THE BELIEFS
PART I. RE-FORM BELIEFS
Set up a structure
___ Set up a notebook (or some organization system) to keep and work with the
___ Milestone A. Having set up a structure in which to hold one's work as it progresses.
Identify and record existing beliefs
The point of this is to gather for awareness of what is going on the beliefs and thoughts that you note are behind negative emotions, so that you can clean up the beliefs to what is true and thus eliminate most, if not all, unnecessary negative (unhappy) emotions. The most helpful reference will be the rightmost box in the Beliefs And Thoughts, Contents And Links page.
___ For two weeks, start identifying and gathering beliefs.
1. Write out your "thoughts" and/or events that evoke negative emotions.
Carry with you a spiral bound notebook (recommended, though any storage device that works is good), constantly noting them every day for the two weeks. Some people will just record them directly into their journal. Note that you will have some beliefs where you can't seem to lay out the underlying thoughts - just list those beliefs as a category which can be broken into its component parts, under the name of the resulting emotion: guilt, shame, and such. As a prompter, see the list of emotions in Emotions Contents/Links page. For beliefs to pick off one by one, you can print out and circle your primary beliefs you'd like to change on Beliefs And Thoughts, Contents, Links page.
AND you could use forms that spur you to more directly identify beliefs, such as
b. Any significant beliefs (or impactful events) should be processed further using this form that takes one from the "activator", through describing what occurred, thoughts/beliefs, memories, emotions, etc., ending up devising strong statements and new behaviors: Thought Change Long Form.
___ Milestone 5. Having gathered the predominant majority of one's beliefs/thoughts, ready for being organized and addressed and replaced.
__ Thereafter, add and process beliefs
You will continue recording thoughts and beliefs for the entire project, every day, at least in a journal, or you can access one of the forms. To be better able to access and use the forms, familiarize yourself with the BELIEFS FORMS. and select what works for you, but keep the directory in mind for when you may need other forms for processing beliefs.
Use a form if you want to, where you can simply just write down the beliefs directly on the form as they pop up in your thoughts, and then later re-form them or use another worksheet.
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In parallel, begin the foundational/reinforcing life learning, while doing the above:
Running parallel to your gathering and processing beliefs, you will do this, setting it up as if it were a separate project for a time block each day.
___ Start learning and check off your acceptance and understanding of each of the
___ Start learning and reviewing the "basic affirmations" and basic beliefs about life
(See the Appendix, below, for the checklist of what to "complete" on).
___ Understand what "awareness" is and what it means
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___ Milestone 6. Beginning learning, but full familiarity with, the basic life beliefs that form the foundation of a healthy thought system and of other beliefs. (Installed fully in a later step.) Criteria for having reached this is one's assessment that one is fully familiar with each of them and having accepted most, even though you may have to work on some later.
Process existing beliefs into new beliefs!!!!!
___ Compile and prioritize them in a list (Sources: Any issue you have can be put in the site search engine - as you read on any belief or issue, you can use any affirmations connected to those issues as new beliefs. Copied from the "identify beliefs section: "As a prompter, see the list of emotions in Emotions Contents/Links page. For beliefs to pick off one by one, you can print out and circle your primary beliefs you'd like to change on Beliefs And Thoughts, Contents, Links page.")
You will, of course, have to flip through your various writings of beliefs that
you have created so far and enter them into the list.
Use this as your master working and accumulation worksheet.
You will generally work down the list from the highest impact downward,
but you might choose to vary for a reason. Try to limit the list to no
more than 20 (or, if you must, go to 30) for now.
As you modify these, you will find that you will destroy many false, harmful
beliefs that had depended on the false core beliefs for their support.
___ Milestone 7A. Compiled, listed, and prioritized.
___ Create. Replace each major dysfunctional belief with a new one(s) that is true and believable. Create stands, statements, and declarations that will help extinguish and/or clarify. (Any issue you have can be put in the search engine and you can use any affirmations in those sections. The thoughts you used to address the erroneous thinking in the two week gathering of thoughts are good sources of new affirmations.)
should primarily use. However, others are listed and available on the
process that was complete, so each new one has to have a complete construction
process.)
___ Copy. Select from affirmations already on the site, especially the basic underlying beliefs that support the entire foundation of new beliefs (Self Esteem
can be put in the search engine and you can use any affirmations listed on those
pages.) Utilize also the comforting and coping statements throughout the site.
___ Milestone 7B. Having addressed each of the major beliefs (at least 20) in-depth, replaced them with true ones and set up the supporting statements. This is a long process, during which it is permissible to begin installing the new beliefs and affirmations. Reformulating a major belief probably will take between 1 to 10 hours. The quicker one is where you have found affirmations that you find true, so that alot of the work is already done for you. This is a "80%" or more exercise, meaning you might not have perfected many of them, but that they are 80% or more effective.
The final "form" of this process will be, for each key belief, a master ending declaration of what is true, with all the supporting evidence and case for why it is true (in case you need it reinforced or reinstalled later). It can be useful also in some cases to do some master declaration of what you declare to not be true.
PART II. COMPLETELY INSTALL NEW BELIEFS
Use self talk to implement new beliefs/thoughts, using your Reminders Notebook:
"firming" up.
___ Give up and eliminate stories from your repertoire.
Note that this includes the process by which the original wrong beliefs came about: repetition (a kind of "grooving in" to form neuronal patterns that are created whenever we think something over and over). So... don't stop short before the process is complete (and that means the new thought is effortless and automatic and dominant!) - most people quit early, and thus they don't get the results. You must complete this process, even if it takes weeks or months - you do it "on the side", setting aside a certain amount of time daily, and then going about your normal life in the time still available. There is no sacrifice here, as the missing time from your "normal" day will not have any real effect on your life - and you'll probably push aside something really valueless that you would have spent time on anyway...
___ Milestone 8. While 7B is of immense impact, this milestone is the "coup de grace" (the finishing off), a relative mastery of using only true, progressive self talk and eliminating virtually all stories, forever.
PART III. IMPLEMENT NEW ACTIONS REINFORCING NEW BELIEFS
___ For each belief I have I have specified a new behavior or action that will reinforce and be consistent with the new belief.
___ Milestone 9. Just as one did in childhood with each new belief, one will "complete the set", as each mental record that has a true belief in it, will also have related to it (like a set of dishes) an emotion and a pre-setup suggested behavior that is consistent with producing whatever the desired result will be.
MEASURE THE FINAL RESULT
___ Milestone 10. Achieving these levels allow for a much greater peace of mind and much more effective directing of one's energies, with ease and grace.
THE NEXT STEP: TOTAL COMPLETION
Putting it together into a life philosophy foundation... be aware that all Life
Masters have done this, for when it is complete, they are complete and very
powerful.
Listing your values, which you will use to govern your life with clarity and
authenticity
Deciding actions and behaviors I am committed to.
___ Milestone 11. Achieving a completion of your chosen way of being, acting, and believing in your life, so that you have the "whole" integrated completely together, moving toward that which you value the most, providing the most value to your life.
APPENDIX.
____ I am not my actions nor my beliefs nor my body nor my mind. I am simply
____ Very little is needed to have a happy life.
anything I see fit.
____ There is no set standard on how well one should do. (Comparing)
____ Value judging and criticism creates harm and the payoffs are not valid.
____ People can only do the best their current awareness allows them to do.
____ No one in the entire world is one iota more or less worthy than I am.
____ What another does or does not do has nothing to do with my self worth.
