Do we need to create new beliefs?
By Morty Lefkoe
“The Lefkoe Method is very effective at eliminating negative beliefs. But why don’t you replace them with positive beliefs?”
This is a very common question so I decided to devote this week’s post to answering it.
For many years we did attempt to “install” positive beliefs—the opposite of the [...]
“Guest author Carmen Lynne writes :
“After spending the greater part of my life as an actress and performer, I became a therapist in early 2007.
“While I still do a little bit of acting when I have a chance, I now mainly spend my time helping other people to fulfill their creative ambitions or to just [...]
“Call it avoidance, complacency, indecisiveness, stubborness or noncompliance. Whatever the term or definition, I have often tried to find some way to delay change or run in the opposite direction from it.”
The challenge
In her post Change and the HSP, from her blog Inside the Mind of a Highly Sensitive Person, Helen Akers takes a look [...]
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A public art project created by designer Candy Chang, Sidewalk Psychiatry “encourages self-evaluation in transit by posing critical questions on the pavements of New York City with stencils and temporary spray-chalk.
“Now your daily ponderings and emotional problems can be prodded and treated on the go…”
The temporary messages she has painted include:
“Then Why Do You [...]
Our beliefs can have a profound impact on our health, personal development and how well we live consciously and creatively.
A PsyBlog post summarizes a social psychology experiment* demonstrating how potent and self-limiting beliefs can be.
his project involved a group of students who were told they were taking part in a study about the “psychological and [...]
Vin Mariani became one of the most popular wines in the world in the late 1800’s, praised and promoted by artists and world leaders including Jules Verne; Alexander Dumas; Robert Louis Stephenson; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sarah Bernhardt.
It was claimed to be a “tonic” and “restorative” for multiple conditions including “nervous troubles, general debility, [...]
Psychotherapist Sarah Chana Radcliffe practices emotionally focused therapy, process experiential psychotherapy, energy psychology, EMDR, and cognitive behavioral therapy. In this excerpt from a Shrink Rap Radio podcast, she talks about EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Holosync and some other approaches to personal development and healing.
See the post to hear an excerpt from her podcast interview: Psychotherapist [...]
There is a famous example in the field of sports psychology about the power of visualization.
Psychologist Charlotte Reznick describes the research study (done years ago, by a Dr. Blaslotto at the University of Chicago) with basketball players.
“There were three groups… one group shot from the foul line, actually practiced every day for 20 minutes. Another [...]
In this excerpt from the article Eleven Ways to Be Your Own Therapist, from his website, Essays for the Enlightenment Seeker – Healing from Childhood Trauma, Psychotherapist Daniel Mackler speaks about nurturing our ability to know and take care of ourselves by journaling:
“1. KEEP A JOURNAL: Journaling – that is, writing down the truth of [...]
By guest author Errol Michael Henry.
Potential makes reference to future possibilities for success — but offers no cast–iron guarantees concerning achievement.
Secondly, the inclusion of the word latent infers that there is power available that has yet to be released. That is why people who are (allegedly) very talented have a greater likelihood of leaving this [...]
Tama J. Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her law practice with a large corporate law firm to write and lead workshops as a life/work and creativity coach. She writes:
Yes, it’s easier to assume doom. We fit in.
We’d probably even be seen as thoughtful, prophetic, and on the money.
But fitting in is [...]
Being seduced by the comfort of routine and the known is one of the ways we limit ourselves. Doing more about our inertia, we can grow more effectively toward who we want to be.
Inertia is the concept in classical physics that a physical object resists any change in its state of motion.
But doesn’t that also [...]
Also see articles by Morty Lefkoe.
A profile by the Institute of Noetic Sciences notes that Lefkoe “made a series of discoveries that allowed him to help people make permanent changes in their emotions and behavior.” He is founder of The Lefkoe Method, available in the programs Undo Public Speaking Fear and ReCreate Your Life.
Eliminate one [...]
This audio clip is from the Living & Working On Purpose show, hosted by Brad Swift, founder of the Life on Purpose Institute.
One of the themes of the much longer podcast is how our identity gets so connected with doing and achieving, rather than being.
Dee Wallace is a spiritual healer, speaker, and actor with decades [...]
High Intelligence Specialist Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D. comments in her book Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind about some of the factors in why there are fewer eminent women in most fields :
“In my experience, most girls and women, as a group, tend to see shades of meaning and concepts more easily and are [...]
Quotes from SelfGrowth page for the video :
“We all know that there are brief events that can change our lives forever. Winning the lottery. Meeting the love of your life.
“We believe that you can also change your life in 5 minutes or less by learning about a new idea that will change the course and [...]
Laura Berman Fortgang comments in The Little Book on Meaning: Why We Crave It, How We Create It :
“I remember once suggesting to a client that his life could be fun. It was such an insult to his intelligence that he walked out of my office never to return. I was fired. It struck me [...]
First, a provocative quote from psychiatrist Thomas Szasz:
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
In the following clip from one of his many podcasts, Leo Laporte quotes internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis: “When times are tough, you invest [...]
In this sample clip from his audiobook Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits Wayne Dyer says “Just because people know what to think, doesn’t mean they know how to think, or how to change what they’ve been thinking for a lifetime.”
Author Gregg Braden says, “I was working as a defense systems computer engineer during the last years of the Cold War when I first read Louise’s book, You Can Heal Your Life.
“It came to me at a turning point in my life and I found it so beautiful, so powerful, and so true.
“Through the simple [...]
“For a long, long time, I really tried to be something I’m not, somebody who’s not gay. And I have to say it ruined my life in a lot of ways.” Kelly McGillis
There are many ways, subtle and not so subtle, that we hide who we really are. Covering up of our authentic selves can [...]
“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.” John Lennon
In his article Would you like to stop worrying about what others think?, Morty Lefkoe explains some of the psychodynamics of low self regard, our need for approval, and how his program can eliminate “I’m not [...]
Laura Berman Fortgang relates a story about the Dalai Lama addressing a group of scientists and saying “Curiosity is part of my life, part of my self. Look at this body. Some areas have more hair, some less. Why?”
Fortgang continues in her book The Little Book on Meaning: Why We Crave It, How We Create [...]
By Laura Berman Fortgang, Author of The Little Book on Meaning: Why We Crave It, How We Create It.
From her article On Meaning: The Silver Lining of The Recession.
Human beings have often engaged in the search for meaning, but today’s economic downturn has brought the subject to light in a new way.
People are re-evaluating whether [...]
