Objective:
To discover transparent beliefs.
Expected Results:
Insights, personal transformation.
Instructions:
Discovering transparent beliefs is done either with a companion or as a team
effort. The exercise may be repeated many times.
Step 1:
The guide or group leader asks, "What would you like to change?" until
a situation is revealed.
Step 2:
Once the situation has been pinpointed, the guide or group leader goes after:
Once the situation has been pinpointed, the guide or group leader goes after:
• the beliefs that are creating the situation
• the
experience that are reinforcing
_the beliefs, i.e., creating certainty in
_the beliefs
_the beliefs, i.e., creating certainty in
_the beliefs
by asking:
(a) What belief might someone have
in order
__ to experience (situation)?
(b) How do you prove that belief is true?
__ to experience (situation)?
(b) How do you prove that belief is true?
(c) What other belief might someone
have in
__ order to experience (situation)?
(d) How do you prove that belief is true?
__ order to experience (situation)?
(d) How do you prove that belief is true?
(c) and (d) are alternately addressed until the student has a realization.
One
of over 30 exercises from the book ReSurfacing: Techniques for
Exploring Consciousness © 1994
by Harry Palmer. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.