Beliefs And How To Change Them: A Manual Of Methods For Changing Beliefs In Ourselves And Others

By learning and practicing the concepts and skills in this book, you can begin to master how to shift and strategically change beliefs during a normal conversation. Written by a therapist with over 35 years of experience, he developed these methods while working in forensic mental health treatment to shift the beliefs of people who thought it was "cool" to kill people. The book begins by teaching techniques for shifting and controlling your own feelings. This is important because beliefs usually rely on a "feeling that something is true." You learn to shift feelings in yourself, and then shift feelings in others. You learn several different "feeling sequences" that can be extremely useful coping strategies in a variety of different situations. You will also learn how to teach these to other people, including children.The book then explores the structure of beliefs, so you can detect the belief structures a person uses whenever they talk. This allows you to understand them more easily, and shows you how to shift their beliefs. You will learn about shifting beliefs, truths, evidence, values and more by exploring language patterns that are part of the conversational hypnosis techniques utilized by the late Dr. Milton Erickson. You will also learn conditions for forming new beliefs, and the ideals to keep in mind when changing beliefs in yourself and others so that the impact on the larger world is positive. Lastly, you will explore three beliefs that could destroy the world, and three beliefs that could save the world, as well as a very simple value filter for evaluating what is a good belief.Learn to detect how television and media is constantly utilizing conversational hypnosis, and how to make your own communication more likely to be heard, understood and accepted by a listener. Learn a set of language patterns for weakening beliefs, and another set for strengthening beliefs - all in this one book!

• | Author: Larry Westenberg, Larry Westenberg Lcsw
• | Publisher: Expanding Enterprises, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0960075909
• | ISBN-13: 9780960075904