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September 30 - October 1, 2018
Since its inception in 1988, much has changed for PSYCH-K. In the beginning it was used primarily to address psychological obstacles to happiness among those individuals who were seeking a better life.
It was often described as a psychological process that could be used to improve life, mentally and physically.
Hence, today PSYCH-K is popularly characterized as a spiritual process with psychological benefits.
But, sometimes trying harder isn’t the answer. The following story illustrates the point.
If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances for success.1
As the saying goes, “If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting.” There is a better way to find the missing peace in your life than to double your efforts and try harder. That’s what this book is about.
Making Wisdom a Habit Instead of an Effort
Making Peace with Yourself
This book is about the missing piece (peace) between trying harder and trying smarter, between great insights and a great life, between acquiring wisdom and putting that wisdom into action in your life.
Step one is getting the necessary information to decide why to take the actions suggested here.
Step two is learning how to put the information into action, and is an interactive, experiential process.
this book is more about “why-to-do” PSYCH-K than “how-to-do” PSYCH-K.
you will learn a simple, direct, and verifiable process for communicating directly with your subconscious mind in order to discover preprogrammed, hidden beliefs from your past that may be sabotaging your success and happiness.
Also, you will learn how to set life goals in such a way that they can become more like self-fulfilling prophecies than day-to-day struggles!
set out the essential information and insights necessary to understand what is missing in many of the most popular self-help ap...
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A process that can free your mind from the prison of limiting beliefs. Welcome to the real world of possibilities instead of the pre-programmed world of limitations!
for two years I had been trying not to rock the boat and now the boat was sinking! Something had to change.
I became aware that the greatest joy I derived from my current job came from working with people and that it was only a matter of time before I would have to make a change.
Compelled by a persistent sense of urgency, I enrolled in a graduate program for counseling at the University of Colorado.
As I grew as a therapist, I found myself not always agreeing with the business philosophy of just doing whatever it took to achieve success, yet I was equally disturbed by the overemphasis on the process of psychotherapy, with so little attention being paid to achieving results.
This widening schism forced me to look outside my university training for more results-oriented approaches to my future profession as a psychotherapist, a search that led me through a myriad of alternative therapies such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnosis, Educational Kinesiology, Touch for Health, Reiki, and a plethora of other contemporary and ancient healing techniques.
was frustrated by the limitations of the old counseling formula of Insight + Willpower = Change.
My search for synthesis finally came to fruition early in December 1988.
Through clenched teeth I said out loud, “Okay God, if you don’t want me to do what I am doing, what do you want me to do?” I
sat in silence, not really expecting an answer. But, to my astonishment, within minutes the details of a pattern for changing subconscious beliefs showed up in my head.
I jumped up, ran to my computer, and feverishly began typing. In a matter of a few minutes the information in my head was gone and I was reading what I had typed: thirteen paired belief stat...
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These unique processes constitute the body of work I call PSYCH-K.
As you can see from this example, PSYCH-K was created more out of inspiration than perspiration. It wasn’t a laborious, intellectual process of discovery, but instead arrived in a series of “intuitive flashes of insight.”
In reality, years of experiences, personal research, and hundreds of books had prepared me fo...
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Over those several months, the belief change components that make up the total PSYCH-K process came to me in ...
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I was skeptical at first. After all, this new way of changing broke every rule I had been taught in gra...
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So before using this new approach with my clients, I experimented with these new patterns using willing friends and myself as test subjects.
Chapter 2 When Getting There Isn’t Half the Fun No pain, no gain. –Myth of Western Civilization
Unfortunately, most habitual thoughts and behavior patterns don’t change with more effort.
They become part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
If what you need is a caring, compassionate listener with the ability to help you develop insights into the cause of your problems and create new strategies for improving ...
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However, when it comes to helping clients implement strategies and insights, the statistics for talk-therapy are less than spectacular.
30 percent of patients treated for depression showed lasting improvement using insight-based talk therapy.
Other studies showed that given enough time, about 30 percent of patients overcame their difficulties without any psychotherapy whatsoever!
How Many Psychotherapists Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?
“Only one, but the light bulb has to really want to change!”
Knowing the cause of a problem seldom changes its effect.
Looking for the Keys Do you know the story about the drunk who had lost his car keys at night and was looking for them under a street lamp?
In the dim alley of the subconscious mind is where the real keys to lasting change can be found.
Most people overidentify with their conscious mind. It is the part of you that represents the “I” in most personal statements,
THE CONSCIOUS MIND
THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
Notice the processing capacities of the conscious mind at 40 bits of information per second and compare it to the 40 million bits per second of the subconscious.
If the conscious mind desires a goal the subconscious mind disagrees with, guess which mind usually wins the contest!
Because of the extraordinary power of the subconscious, it’s easy to think of it as your enemy when it seems to be sabotaging your goals in life. In actuality it is more like a well-meaning but misguided friend who is just trying to do what he or she thinks is best for you.
