The
idea of belief negotiation has taken hold and I am posting here a
couple of pieces on this topic from other forums. Just to keep
everybody informed. The first piece is from an email to some friends
describing my present embarrassment of riches within consciousness. The
second piece is from my new website devoted entirely to belief
negotiation [beliefnegotiator.com]. This is an idea whose time has come.
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My own situation is that I have learned so much lately that I
haven't been able to put all of it into practice. I find myself
noticing some daily travail or bad habit and just throwing up my hands
in consciousness and letting it go. I know how to address these things
but there's only so much time in a day. Because of this embarrassment
of riches, I am starting to trust organic priorities to show up and
force my hand, so to speak, and more and more willing to let things
that maybe I thought 'should' be happening, slide a bit.
I am reminded of an old joke from my days growing up in Owen Sound.
The agricultural representative (a much maligned and belittled
government employee], came around to see the old farmer to show him all
the modern new ways of farming, and the old farmer dismisses him
impatiently, "I already know how to farm much better than what I'm
doing now!"
What I fantasize about is a machine that uses artificial
intelligence, hypnosis, and perhaps sensory probes [grin], to assess
the belief structures and habitual expressions influencing the reality
creation mechanisms of any particular individual, and then gives them
ready access to the resources and imagery needed to redress any
untoward situations in their lives.
I am seriously thinking of getting the url "Belief Negotiator"
because I think a living could be made, and a very valuable service
offered, by someone who was willing to engage the belief structures of
their clients convincingly, and then suggest and facilitate immediately
helpful adjustments and accommodations. More and more people are
realizing that beliefs are the tools we use to formulate our behavior
and experiences. Anyone offering effective help rearranging a person's
beliefs is going to become a busy and sought-after person
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Why Belief Negotiation?
I am sure there are a few things about your life you’d like to change. Everybody would like to make some changes in their reality, even if it’s only boiling the kettle faster or finding missing socks.
For most of us the alterations we have in mind are much more
aggressive and significant; more money, less hassle, a new job, car,
house, good health, a beautiful body, a beautiful mate... The list goes
on.
Information is emerging that shows how important our beliefs are in
forming our reality. It turns out that what we believe is a sort of
lens through which we shine our reality creation energy. What comes out
the other side - the realities we create - is enormously influenced by
the beliefs we hold.
This can get right down to the nitty-gritty. Deepak Chopra tells a
story about flying in a plane with his mother over India. They had
planned to avoid stopping over in a particular city because his mother
broke out in hives whenever she was in this city. She blamed the
pollution as well as other qualities of this particular city for her
painful skin reaction.
Deepak and his family had planned the route to avoid this city but
after his mother went to sleep, the pilot came on and announced that
bad weather was forcing them to make an unplanned stop in the city in
question.
When Deepak woke his mother she was feeling fine, assuming they were at their intended destination. Within seconds
of telling her about the bad weather and where she really was, an
astonished Deepak watched hives appear on his mother's arms and face.
This illustrates the power and immediacy of the influence of our
beliefs on the realities we create for ourselves moment-to-moment. One
minute this woman believed she was in Pondicherri and she felt fine,
the next minute she realizes she is in Bangalore and she is covered in
itchy hives. Such a dramatic change in her physical reality, and the
only thing that has changed is her beliefs.
When we experience the impact of our own beliefs on the experiences
we create for ourselves, the first thing everybody does is try to kill
the bad beliefs. If we can simply get rid of these bad and limiting
beliefs, everything will be just fine.
But think back to the illustration above. We need beliefs as
the lens or filter through which we express our reality creation
energy. Without beliefs we can’t create realities so the point is not
to get rid of beliefs, but to either negotiate a better influence, or
move our concentration to another belief.
This is where a Belief Negotiator comes in very handy. In the same
way that every writer needs an editor because we can’t see our own
typos, most people need help from other people to be able to notice
their own beliefs.
A savy and well trained belief negotiator can quickly identify the
hidden beliefs that are creating what we don’t want, and address them
directly either in the waking state, engaging the conscious intellect,
or in a hypnotic state engaging the sub-conscious. Often what we think
of as a belief is only one of countless possible influences of an
underlying core belief we hardly ever think about but have always just
assumed to be true.
Once the foundational belief has been identified, it is
comparatively easy in most cases to negotiate a new influence of the
belief that allows us to create a much better outcome. This loosening
of the hold of particular influences is often facilitated by aligning
our present intent with the original intent of the core belief in
question.
One of the ways we stop beating ourselves up is to realize that
every belief we have chosen has been for a reason, and our enduring
intentions for ourselves have always been overwhelmingly positive,
wholesome and compassionate.