NLP
Belief Audit Process
By Robert Smith, Sali
Mustafic and Liz Bailey
of the Treacle Training
Research Group
O
ur belief is that you value system and answering
can be, do, or have the question “Why?” And
anything (including the reason we need the
nothing if you choose). So what question “Why?” is because
stops you realising your dreams? humans are meaning making
The answer is nothing real: just machines. Like any system it
your own unique belief system and needs maintenance.
as Henry Ford said. “If you believe To begin the process
you can or you believe you can’t, which we question our conscious
ever you think, you are right.” In NLP empowering beliefs, are they
we speak of limiting and empowering as empowering as we believe
beliefs so if we clean up the limiting and them to be? Next we address
plump up the empowering ones does our conscious limiting beliefs
this do the trick? Well, we think that and then we unearth, review and
even this is not enough because possibly update the unconscious
we have been programmed with beliefs that underlie them. This is the
some really subtle and deep essence of a belief audit.
beliefs about our beliefs that take
some expert digging to find. We It is fabulously simple.
suggest that what is required is a comprehensive belief audit. The only problem is that if, in some way, just one belief feels that it is
The aim of the belief audit is to discover the beliefs, or parts of under threat, and this only needs to be a 0.001% element, then you
beliefs, that are not in line with your true purpose that need updating so can never be, do or have what you really want. Ironically we can know,
that they can be changed. While NLP offers us the tools to do the job at a logical level, that something is benign but if our belief system
the art lies in discovering the beliefs that are not in your consciousness. perceives it to be a threat then we respond as if that were true. You feel
The deeper they are buried the more we need to dig to find what needs uncomfortable. You feel demotivated. You feel off course. This is a sure
to change. sign that you need a belief audit.
The belief audit identifies archetypal beliefs in each of the three
What is a belief ? categories; empowering, limiting and unconscious. Empowering, we’ve
Beliefs are thoughts we keep, consciously or unconsciously, and they discovered, sometimes isn’t all it says on the tin. “Everybody has some
make our judgements and evaluations about life. Our beliefs are the good in them” was one empowering belief that Claudette suggested. On
on/off switches for good and bad, right or wrong and yes or no. Stated further examination she discovered that as a belief there had been times
simply - if any situation fits our beliefs then we feel good. If it doesn’t when she had been too trusting of others and that updating this belief to
fit then the incongruence makes us feel bad. This is hard wired into the “Everybody has good in them and be careful, everybody also has some
limbic system, the primitive part of the brain, and developed as a clear bad in them” was in fact more empowering for her. Future pacing her life
indicator of a threat to our programmed status quo. with this new updated version of her empowering belief she felt that she
A belief system is a synergistic collection of beliefs linked to our was going to be much more in control of her destiny.
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