NLP Tip: The Power of Beliefs - Part One publication date: Aug 10, 2007
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author/source: Jamie Smart - www.saladltd.co.uk
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What the Thinker Thinks, the Prover Proves (WTTTTPP)
In Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson models the mind as having two main parts; a thinker and a prover. The
thinker can think anything: the earth is flat, or the earth is spherical; all people are evil, or all people are essentially good;
there isn’t enough to go round, or we live in a world of unlimited abundance.
The prover is much more predictable: what the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover sorts for evidence to support it. If a person considers themselves to be stupid,
the prover will find evidence to show that’s ‘true’. If a person thinks they’re brilliant, the prover will show that to be true.
While it’s easy to see that this is the case for everyone else, it’s not so easy to recognise that it’s also the case for us.
It’s easy to identify the ways in which others are limiting themselves, but the things we believe are ‘really true’ – aren’t
they?
The Power of Beliefs
Beliefs are very powerful – so powerful, in fact, that we sometimes don’t remember that they’re not necessarily ‘true’.
When I was a project manager I ‘knew’ that I could lead large, complex projects for big companies, but I also ‘knew’ that
I could not go solo and succeed as a contractor. Two weeks after going on my first NLP training, I handed in my notice
and started my own business. What had changed? My thinker started thinking something different, and my prover found
evidence to support it.
1) Write a list of 3 beliefs which have been limiting you.
Sometimes, just the process of writing them down can allow you to begin to realise that they are not really true. At one
point in time, they may have been useful for you, but perhaps they’ve passed their use-by date.
2) Underneath the list, write ‘Evidence’. Start to find evidence that these beliefs are false (get a friend to help if you need
to.) When you find evidence, don’t judge it. Just write it on the evidence list.
Nature abhors a vacuum, so begin to think about what sort of beliefs you’d like to have instead of these. We’ll explore
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those in Part Two.
NLP Tip: Summary
‘What the Thinker Thinks, the Prover Proves’ – your mind works hard to make your beliefs ‘true’.
Write down 3 beliefs that limit you.Start to find evidence that these beliefs are false.
What limiting beliefs will you change using this NLP Tip?
Click here to read Part Two of this article
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• NLP Coaching Pattern 20 - A Great Response to "I Can't"
• NLP Coaching Pattern 22 - A Cause
• NLP Coaching Pattern 43 - Moving Out of the Problem Zone
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