Give me a very effective belief changing pattern - please help me NLP coaches !

[Ralph]

I'm looking for a simple, and yet almost always working NLP pattern to change any limiting belief. I need it for my upcoming article (and probably hundred others to come). I'd love to give people a tool that really works. My knowledge in belief change is limited to self-help. Now I'm looking for something less personal and more generally applicable. I do lots of research on my own, but I'd love to get some suggestions from this forum as well.

I'm asking for help from therapists, NLP coaches, hypnotists and anyone competent and experienced with changing people's beliefs.

Please recommend me the exact techniques, point me to specific reading or help in any degree you can. I really appreciate every piece of advice.


Cheers
Colorion

[ilrein]

Before I start, make a note, beliefs have an 'intensity'. It took you many years to bring your beliefs to their current level, and as such, not all 5 minute cures will have the same effect. Repetition is key here.

Since I specialize in confidence, I'll offer a specific example for it. Close your eyes and do this:

1) Imagine a movie screen right in front of you
2) Let it play a scene, of where you would feel anxiety
3) Make it smaller, and smaller, and smaller, till it's minute
4) Make an UNLOCK sound effect, such as say a lock OPENING
5) Slide the tiny screen behind you

Now to replace it with something positive...

1) Open a new screen
2) Imagine that scene again, but THIS time you feel RAW CONFIDENCE
3) Make it bigger, and bigger, and bigger, till it's MASSIVE
4) Let this screen LOCK in place via sound effect, such as a lock CLOSING

Open your eyes again.

The above technique is particularly useful for dominantly visual learners. Another approach, again for anxiety control, is:

1) Imagine your in a scene with triggers anxiety

*Instead of it being a SCREEN, your actually THERE

2) Notice where you feel anxiety…stomach? Solar plexus? Etc…
3) Is it warm? Cold?
4) On a scale of 1-10, how intense is the pressure?
5) If you were to give it a colour, what colour would you give it? (Eg: blue)
6) If you were to give confidence a colour, what colour would you give it? (Eg: red)
7) Take that blue, and make it smaller and smaller
8) Then instantly switch it to red and make it bigger and bigger
9) Spread this red EVERYWHERE, head to toe, and notice your confidence expanding

It's not limited to just anxiety. Any emotion can be tinkered with as such, and converting into a more useful emotion. Hope this helps =)

[Ralph]

Thanks a lot ilrein, it really does help. I've stumbled upon those two techniques before and having them now here in writing is awesome.

Much love
Ralph

[Zenduba]

Try checking out some of Tony Robbins' material on you tube

[QuantumJules]

The above technique is particularly useful for dominantly visual learners

It is a common misconception that people are dominated by one of their senses. I believe you can only ever measure which senses people are referencing in a particular moment. You will also find that people can switch their sensory responses depending on the question being asked.

As for a one size fits all approach to limiting beliefs, using a visual intervention for someone who has shown that their particular belief has a kinesthetic sensory base, simply is not going to work.

There are some interventions that can be generalised, but as a rule of thumb, it is always going to be more effective if you have worked with the client face to face.

I hope this helps.

[ilrein]

Is it really true that no one is dominated by one particular sense? I am aware that people switch their sensory responses to the question at hand, but I was always under the impression people tended to lean towards a sense more then others. I also believed that this isn't static, rather just some modalities are more developed through certain learning strategies (IE: sitting in a classroom and taking notes from the board).

As for a one size fits all approach to limiting beliefs, using a visual intervention for someone who has shown that their particular belief has a kinesthetic sensory base, simply is not going to work.

This would be why I posted two ways. I find it harder to accept that a belief will have a certain sensory base, but people can't have a dominant sense. Wouldn't all beliefs be encoded with a variety of submodalities?

And of course, working with a client face to face is obviously better then pure text.

[QuantumJules]

All I can tell you about dominant senses, would be the advisory given by my NLP Trainers who warned against making such assumptions about clients. They suggested that most of the sensory information given by clients existed only in that particular moment.

I agree 100% that limiting beliefs are made up of a number of Modalitites and submodalities, but would add that these are usually only uncovered when the client has been asked to consider them. Clients tend to initially present their belief with a dominant modality such as, 'I am depressed and I just feel that nothing I do is going to help.'

They are then encouraged to consider other modalitites in order to gain further information. For example, colours, brightness of pictures, is the picture framed or panoramic, describe the sounds, smells. etc.

The original modality, ie. feeling, would be used to build rapport to enable you to gather more information about the belief.

[dendennz]

Steve shared this with us in October last year. I find it good

Remove a Limiting Belief in About 20 Minutes

Cheers,

Jenny.