Why don't we explore beliefs? What are the benefits? Imagine walking down a path in the woods. It's a bright sunny day birds are singing. You look up ahead and you see a snake on the path. What is your conditioned reaction?
Do you run panic. If you did not rely on your past beliefs, you might be very still and look even more closely and see that there is merely a long curvy stick there. Taking this pause to assess instead of reacting on automatic pilot, you can then continue to enjoy your journey. If you run away, you will never know Move that it was just a stick, your mind will forever be stuck with the thought that it was a snake, and that will inform your future actions. How many of our responses daily and our clients responses daily, or what I call the snake response by helping our clients to look more closely at beliefs that keep them stuck, shine a light on those judgments and opinions. They not only have an opportunity to change the belief, but develop a habit of examining their life more closely on their own.
You are giving them a tool to use for ever. Here is a metaphor for sifting through beliefs. You go to a fresh market to buy blueberries Strawberries to take home. But when you get home you notice that as you sift through the berries, some are molding and you take those out so they do not infect or affect the other berries. This is the same process we use as we sift through our thoughts or invite our clients to sift through the moldy infecting thoughts and beliefs that they have. When we remove the negative self feeding beliefs, only the supportive ones are left.
The positive thoughts are what are left and they rise to the top. The only work we as coaches have is to remove the old ones and the new thoughts emerge easily. new thoughts give us the opportunity to make new fresh decisions. Let's look at shifting clients from feeling like a victim to being response Abul. If we are our clients are always looking to the past for interpretation of the present or future, then we're still in our clients are still victim of the past, and we really have no choice in our lives. If the client can look past judgments and beliefs, and let them go by shining a light on them, then they can begin to choose new behaviors.
They are able to clearly respond in the present, thus be response a ball rather than reactive. Why do we look for beliefs so we can move beyond the snake response. We have the opportunity to help our clients develop the habit of self examination and the opportunity to let supportive thoughts rise to the top. We can help shift our clients from victim to response above all. Other benefits of exploring beliefs with clients are, if they hold on to the painful past, they are reliving, looking backwards, holding on to anger, fear, sadness, suffering. With letting go they are open to spontaneity, creativity, and satisfaction.
And if they let go of the past, they can walk toward freedom, peace of mind and experience.