Steve...After sincerely attempting this method I have come to some important conclusions.
I believe this activity to be counter productive. Instead of rooting out beliefs that are controlling your experience you are using your imagination to come up with excuses not to do something. This results in an exercise that demoralises the participant and effectively faces them with the overwhelming and unachievable task of rewiring their brain.
What I have discovered is that fears/internal blocks/whatever-you-call-them are not like lines of code in a program. Fear (irrational fear, not primal fear) is a process that your ego uses, in the moment, to control your behaviour and direct you towards behaviour it is used to. The ego will simply use which ever fear or excuse it knows will work best to get you to do what it wants, which is the continuation of your current situation.
The only way to fight fears is to deal with them in the moment. You have your intention or goal and as you try to act you will be bombarded with reasons not to do so. These reasons will be plucked from your belief system and the most effective belief will be used to control your behaviour. The removal of that belief will not remove the process and the next time you act your ego will simply choose another negative thought to control you.
Therefore, the only way to deal with fears is to develop the skill of acting on your commitments (goals/intentions) without being controlled by the thoughts that arise - Do this a few times and your ego stops trying. The only power is in the moment.
I personally wouldnt advise people to do this exercise as it is a waste of time and you spend your time focusing on negative thoughts that may or may not have been forgotten anyway.
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