BELIEFS AND THOUGHTS
DETAILED CONTENTS/LINKS
If not found here, use either: 1. The Detailed Contents Outline For The Psychological Section
2. The Related Directories, listed below.
3. The Search Engine, to the right.
FOR LARGER PRINT: Go to Zoom, under View on browser.
Use the About Me Notebook to organize what you write out.
PROGRAMS - LEARN, IMPLEMENT
The Beliefs Processes - Acquiring Them, Correcting Them, And Installing Them - Gives a good overview and the instructions of what to do. See "Changing Beliefs" section, below.
The Program: Reconstructing Your Belief System Step By Step (See the "Programs" box, to the right.)
What your "product" will look like: The Beliefs Workbook
OVERALL ON BELIEFS
Mental Constructs, Made-Ups, And Reality - And The Effects Of NOT Realizing They Are NOT Real - The source of not being happy.
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Emotion Management - Basics
Fighting With Ghosts
Monkey See, Monkey Do - Just
copy other monkeys?
CHANGING BELIEFS
Changing Beliefs (and dealing with)
*WORKSHEETS TO USE * - Use these to guide you to proper completion. Especially note The ABCDEF Rational Analysis approach.
THE BELIEFS NOTEBOOK - Use this to record, retrieve, and perfect untrue beliefs to true, workable beliefs. I did this in a special format for you to follow so that you know what the final product will look like: The Beliefs Workbook.
MANAGING THOUGHTS
See for more detail "Managing Thoughts" section in Psychology Contents/Links.
Thought Management Using Acceptance And Commitment Therapy - Let thoughts and moods go...
COMMITMENT
WHERE YOU GOT YOUR BELIEFS
Will be organized, but contained above
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR BELIEFS
TALKING OUT LOUD
See Empowering Statements section.
TYPES OF BELIEFS
See also "Specific Beliefs," to the right.
FEAR (See section for detail.)
List of all the fears - Virtually all are just made up beliefs.
(Click on this link for a page that explains these, and how to use them, more completely.) See Specific Beliefs, to the right, to help you along the way.
The following is left here for quick perusal, but go to the FORMS page.
BELIEFS RELATED (See explanations of forms and their uses in Changing Beliefs - Main Page .)
Beliefs List Prioritized - Central master
list or just a quiklist
- To help think of more beliefs
One page
longer form, below.)
Medium
Event or problem:
Rational Self Analysis - Event
through beliefs to conclusions
Read The ABCDEF Rational
Perspective Problem - Short
form and long form for
addressing what happened,
thoughts, rework of thoughts
Sentences (See filled in
examples in "Reforming", above.)
Long form, most complete
Core Belief Rework Form - From
source of a core belief to new one
Past
- Start from the earlier memory
- Preferred by some, where
figurative "allies" help and/or
talk to one's "child"
Discovery/rework:
- Elicits beliefs and your own re-
working of them
OTHER
SETS OF BELIEFS/ROLES AND
VIEWPOINTS
POSITIVE BELIEF SYSTEMS
Gratitude (section)
CREEDS, CODES OF CONDUCT
FAULT, BLAME, RIGHT/WRONG
SEARCH ENGINE:
MOVED, for restructuring, though you can still use this for a quick eye scan to see what you want:
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SPECIFIC BELIEFS
EXAMPLES, CORRECTIONS, ETC.
Core Beliefs - The few beliefs that underlie the other beliefs, so vital to address first.
Values - What is fundamentally important to you in running your life.
GLOBAL BELIEFS - Philosophical, life, death, the world.
SPECIFIC BELIEFS, RELATED TO
See also: Detail in Psych section
See, in left column: Types Of Beliefs, especially "Global Beliefs", like one's view of the world, people, life, etc.
Abandonment (See dependency, victim)
Approval - Needed? Really?
Bad past's effect
Being Right - Very, very costly!
Child - Do you have one inside?
Control - A source of power or waste
Danger (threats to oneself)
Death - Seems likely & "so what?"
Dependency - A harmful myth
Ego - A huge laugh
Failing - "No prob"
Faults: Weaknesses, Flaws, Faults
List of all the fears - Knock them off
Future (See also undesired outcomes)
See Contents/Links re: this paradigm.
Good enough - Uncreating "the gap"
Helplessness (See Powerlessness)
Life will turn out well - It will!
Lonely - What it really is...
Loss - "Lessened gain?"
Loving Oneself -Powerful, doable
Mistakes (and failures) - "No prob"
Needs - Which ones are really real?
Old age - Interesting view...
Pain, emotional - The "second dart"
Past - Reality, perspective
Perfection - A real crock
Poverty
Powerlessness (Also Child)
Power in life - See it...
Rejection - Yes, but...
Responsibility - Reality, easiness
Right/Wrong/Good/Bad - Not real/true
Sadness - And perspective!
Safety - More than you realize
Self-worth - A huge fiction...sorry!
Social anxiety - Its false base
Something is wrong - But not overall
Stories - Distinguish, more power
Suffering and struggle - How to stop
Threats - Identifying the illusion; peace
Time - Plenty, don't collapse it
Undesired Outcomes - "No problem"
Unworthiness - And the false concept
Worry - And false belief in it efficacy
Core Beliefs
Global Beliefs
Specific Beliefs
Related Directories
Sets Of Beliefs/Roles And Viewpoints
Positive Belief Systems
Formulating A Philosophy Of Life
Creeds, Codes Of Conduct
Fault, Blame, Right/Wrong
Forms To Use To Change Beliefs
Core Beliefs
Global Beliefs
Programs - Learn, implement
Overall On Beliefs
Basic Prep Learning
Changing Beliefs & Worksheets To Use
Managing Thoughts
Commitment
What To Do With Your Beliefs
Talking Out Loud
Fear
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BELIEFS AND THOUGHTS
CONTENTS/LINKS
CORE BELIEFS
USE THIS ONE INSTEAD (moved for restructuring)" Addressing One's Core Beliefs Underlying One's Life.
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Core beliefs about one's own life
Danger - Threats
Core beliefs about oneself
Core beliefs about the past
I had a bad life, therefore should be
unhappy for the loss
Core beliefs about the future
Bad past determines the future
There is much to fear about the
future
Self esteem/confidence
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SEPARATE SECTION:
These also help determine how one sees life and deals with it!
GLOBAL BELIEFS (Philosophical)
Beliefs about the world
Life Is Very Hard (Not!)
The gratitude beliefs
THE PROGRAMS
TO LEARN AND IMPLEMENT
Beliefs - Dealing With And Changing - Although broader, much of this is about fear.
The Emotion Management Program, presently consisting of:
