by Larry Lloyd
Producing a manualized cognitive restructuring program that is effective in helping people overcome faulty thinking and self-defeating conduct is an art form that very few have mastered.
The question is, is it even possible to go into someone's subconscious mind and alter thoughts? YES! The secret lies in Dr David Hawken�s book on truth vs. falsehoods. Truth has energy that can infiltrate the veil of self-imposed false beliefs and help people find their true selves. That is, help them see that they are so much greater than they believe they are.
Creating a cognitive restructuring curriculum requires a profound understanding of the truth, otherwise the written words will have no penetrating energy. Untrue words drop off of the page and onto the ground. There they disintegrate and die and are never thought of again.
True words lift people to a higher calibration whereas untrue words discourage. True words have a force that enlivens energies that resonate at a frequency that people will accept. It's this cognitive energy that can change faulty thinking.
After years of helping domestic violence victims it is still enlightening to watch this self-actualization process. Most abused women believe that they have less value than they really do. By the time they reach the 3rd or 4th session of applying true words, the truth begins to have its affect.
This reprogramming is manifested in their physical, mental and emotional elation. The changes for most people are significant and permanent. Yet let us remember that cognitive restructuring counseling is an invitation to change, not a force. Change is the responsibility of the client. The chief reason counseling programs are ineffective is because they are not set up correctly and they have very little penetrating truth. This is because the person(s) who produced it didn't have the necessary truth. People can go to psychotherapy sessions for years and years and not change because the therapist isn't aligned with the truth. The truth can have a lasting impact on people in a matter of hours, however, it must be available.
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