NLP
It is the conscious limiting belief that we are most familiar with. consider it. It was carried in his unconscious, pre-language, constantly
“I’m too fat”, “I’m too tall”, “I’m not quick enough”, I’m not clever driving him to seek for more. However much he gathered for himself
enough”, “I’m not...”, “I’m not...”, “I’m not...”, “They won’t let me”, and his family, he could never relax; never feel comfortable because
“They won’t like me”... “I can’t spiel.” “there will never be enough” informed his thoughts, feelings and actions
Now we come to the gustatory (meaty) bit, the unconscious beliefs at every neurological level. Andrew did not know that he believed this
which we have subdivided into three groups Somatic, Insidious and but his body did.
Misinterpreted beliefs. Each can be encountered at varying degrees of Strangely by all social measures Andrew would be considered a very
consciousness. Somatic beliefs are the most deeply unconscious... successful man. He had a family, a home and was very wealthy but he
Somatic beliefs are beliefs held in the was desperately unhappy and didn’t
physical body. They are held there because
Our beliefs are the
know why. So many people are looking
they were taken on non-verbally at a very early to start a family, have a lovely home
or extremely vulnerable point in your life. A on/off switches for and enjoy great wealth. Andrew
belief held here “goes without saying”. It goes discovered that only one thing matters,
without saying because you don’t have words
good and bad, right or
being happy now.
to explain it. It was formed without words.
wrong and yes or no
Insidious beliefs are introduced, often
Somatic beliefs are in the muscle. We exercise with good intentions, by family, friends,
and nourish them, without knowing them, by or the culture in which we have grown,
feeling, sensing and acting upon them without question. right up to this moment of discovery. This type of belief can sound
Take the man; we will call him Andrew, who acts as though “There caring, supportive and even empowering while carrying a hidden
will never be enough”. Questioning Andrew revealed that he felt that message (often a somatic belief of the person who introduced it)
his mother never fed him. Later Andrew checked this out with his the purpose of which is to control the person or to make them
mother and found that it was true that she had had insufficient milk to happy regardless.
breastfeed him. And so it is true that for the first few months of his life Bev‘s family belief was “Better to be lucky than rich” which at first
he was literally starving. glance, sounds supportive and empowering. Bev was conscious of
Andrew continually hungered for more and believed that satisfaction saying it but unaware of the embedded unconscious message. She had
was unattainable. His body learned this before he had the language to developed an insidious part of the belief which was that you cannot be
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