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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.

 

1. You could cut the song out and splice the tape.
2. You could erase that part of the tape.
3. 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.

1. You could cut the program out of your mind. That process is
known as a lobotomy. Not the best method to use as the personality is
destroyed as well as the material.

2. You could erase it by forcing yourself to forget the incident.
There are therapists who use this method. Not recommended as other
material is eliminated as well and the memory suffers. This method also
destroys a part of personality.

3. You could record new material over the old material thereby
creating a new program. This is the method we recommend. We call this
method of reprogramming OVERLAY. It will be described in a bit.

When you learn how you think, you also learn the process for
thinking and when you know the process, you can control the way you
think and gain self confidence, ego enhancement, and have a better handle
on the day to day activities you are involved with. When you learn the
process you begin to use more of your mind and when you do that you
find improvement in every aspect of your life.

Everything that has happened is a memory. You remember the way
the event happened. But you do not remember exactly the way it happened.
People have a tendency to exaggerate the bad things that have happened
to them, and change the good things as well. Everytime the story is told
the bad things get worse, the good better.

When memories come back to you they are redefined through the
screen of your present attitudes. People often say that if they could do this
or that over again, they would be successful because they would do it
differently. What they tend to forget is that given the same resources of
the time, the same attitudes, fears, and beliefs, they would have done it
exactly the same. You always strive to do our best - even if your best is to
do it bad, you would do your best to do it badly.

When you exaggerate, you lie to yourself. As long as you are lying,
why not go all the way?

Use the lie to change the past. When you change your memory, you change the past.

Go beyond exaggeration. Create a new memory entirely.

Neil was thinking about that time. He didn’t think about it too often,
but he knew it was having an effect on his life. It took place when he was
eleven. He was in school and the class bully was picking on him. He took a
dollar from Neil and laughed in his face. The bully said, “Well peanut,
what are you going to do about it?” Neil turned away with a sigh, eyes
staring at the ground, lips clenched together. They both knew he would
back away from an encounter. He was actually bigger than Freddie, the
other boy, but Freddie was so aggressive he brought out all kinds of fears
in Neil. Neil believed he would be lose any confrontation and accepted the
fact that if he didn’t fight, he wouldn’t be beaten.

Over the years the memory grew. Occasionally he would imagine
that there was a fight and that he lost. It would have been terrible. Everyone
laughing at him. He tried to repress the memory, but it always seemed to
be there. Whenever he tried anything that little voice came out saying,
“Watch out now. You might lose if you try.”
 

THE OVERLAY

Then Neil learned how to change the past.  One day he sat down,
closed his eyes and replayed the entire scene in his mind. He grabbed the
dollar back from Freddie. Freddie pushed him, Neil pushed back and
Freddie fell on the ground. He got up and Neil shoved him to the ground
again. All the people watching laughed at Freddie. Neil really got into the
scene. He worked on bringing out colors, sound, even the smell of the
schoolyard. He spent thirty minutes on enhancing his new memory. After
that, whenever he thought about the incident he remembered the new
scene. He remembered winning. That new memory had an effect on
everything from that moment on.

Everything that is going to happen is in flux.  Small things in the
present can have a large effect on the future. When you think about the
future you fantasize. As it has not yet taken place it cannot be anything
but a fantasy. When you fantasize apprehension you create an energy
that tends to attract fear in others. You actually attract that which you
fear.

As long as you are creating the fantasy you may as well create one
that is to your benefit.

Create a scene in your mind and put in time. Remember where your future time line extends. When you create the scene, pick a spot where you feel the future is and pull that spot into your scene. Build all the representational systems. Enhance the image, the color, the sound, the feel.  

Spend twenty quiet minutes by yourself doing this. And then,
whenever you think about the event. Remember what you’ve created.  It is
not a day dream. The difference between a day dream and a program is
that the day dream is recreational and has no time element. The program
is creational and has a time element.