Bertrand Russell\u2019s Method
\nIn his book The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell wrote:
\n. I was not born happy. As a child, my favorite hymn was: \u2018Weary of earth\u00a0and laden with my sin.\u2019 . .. In adolescence, I hated life and was continually
\non the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the\u00a0desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I
\nmight almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more . .. very\u00a0largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself. Like others
\nwho had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins,\u00a0follies, and shortcomings. I seemed to myself \u2018no doubt justly\u2019 a miserable
\nspecimen. Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my\u00a0deficiencies; I came to center my attention increasingly upon external
\nobjects: \u00a0the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals\u00a0for whom I felt affection.<\/p>\n
In the same book, he describes his method for changing automatic\u00a0reaction patterns based on false beliefs:
\nIt is quite possible to overcome infantile suggestions of the unconscious,\u00a0and even to change the contents of the unconscious, by employing the
\nright kind of technique. Whenever you begin to feel remorse for in act\u00a0which your reason tells you is not wicked, examine the causes of your\u00a0feeling of remorse, and convince yourself in detail oftheir absurdity. Let
\nyour conscious beliefs be so vivid and emphatic that they make an\u00a0impression upon your unconscious strong enough to cope with the\u00a0impressions made by your nurse or your mother wh~n you were an\u00a0infant. Do not be content with an alternation between moments of\u00a0rationality and moments of irrationality. Look into the irrationality
\nclosely with a determination not to respect it and not to let it dominate\u00a0you. Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts or feelings into your consciousness,
\npull them up by the roots, examine them, and reject them.<\/p>\n
Do\u00a0not allow yourself to remain a vacillating creature, swayed half by reason\u00a0and half by infantile folly \u2026
\nBut if the rebellion is to be successful in bringing individual happiness\u00a0and in enabling a man to live consistently by one standard, not to vacillate
\nbetween two, it is necessary that he should think and feel deeply\u00a0about what his reason tells him. Most men, when they have thrown off
\nsuperficially the superstitions of their childhood, think that there is no\u00a0more to be done. They do not realize that these superstitions are still
\nlurking underground. When a rational conviction has been arrived at, it\u00a0. is necessary to dwell upon it, to follow out its consequences, to search out
\nin oneself whatever beliefs inconsistent with the new conviction might\u00a0otherwise survive .. .
\nWhat I suggest is that a man should make up his mind with emphasis as\u00a0to what he rationally believes, and should never allow contrary irrational
\nbeliefs to pass unchallenged or obtain a hold over him, however brief.<\/p>\n
This is a question of reasoning with himself in those moments in which
\nhe is tempted to become infantile, but the reasoning, if it is sufficiently\u00a0emphatic, may be very brief.<\/p>\n
Ideas Are Changed Not by \u201cWill,\u201d\u00a0but by Other Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n It can be seen that Bertrand Russell\u2019s technique of searching out ideas In my original book, I told of my encounter with a salesperson in\u00a0which I employed this technique of shining the spotlight on two conflicting Two Psychologic Levers You Can Use\u00a0to Remove Any \u201cMountain\u201d in Your Way<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecky found that there were two powerful levers for changing beliefs\u00a0and concepts. There are standard convictions, which are strongly held Interestingly, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), which is\u00a0based on extensive work by Drs. Grindler and Bandler and has been\u00a0popularized by Tony Robbins, offers a tool-kit of two items: pain and I do not think it coincidental that pain and the deep-seated belief\u00a0that you should not suffer great indignities are the triggers that most Let me tell you of a person just so motivated. Today, one of the\u00a0members of The Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation\u2019s Board of Directors You know, a great many people never take that simple realization\u00a0seriously. \u00a0Jeff then set about doing what we now call backwards goal-setting. After considerable thought, he decided upon the mail-order\u00a0business. He recognized that a great many financial planners could\u00a0benefit from the methods he had perfected for successfully attracting He could operate from an office in his home and have functions like\u00a0order-taking, printing and shipping done for him by outside contractors.<\/p>\n He convinced his self-image he could do this by focusing on his\u00a0strengths, such as his intimate knowledge of the desires and frustrations First, Jeff built a mail-order publishing business selling to financial\u00a0planners and insurance agents that provided an income of more<\/p>\n Second, Jeff created\u00a0a home study course, seminar, and other materials to teach his mailorder Third, he developed such a high level of marketing and sales letter\u00a0copywriting skills that he has become a much sought after, highly paid Jeff credits \u00b7the use of Psycho-Cybernetics techniques, but also\u00a0emphasizes what he calls \u201cAccurate Thinking,\u201d what I have called Examine and Reevaluate Your Beliefs<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the reasons that the power of rational thinking goes unrecognized\u00a0is that it is so seldom used. How many people do you suppose would love to have a perfect\u00a0lifestyle business like Jeff\u2019s, but, if asked about it, would quickly produce Remember that both behavior and feeling spring from belief. To\u00a0root out the belief responsible for your feeling and behavior, ask your\u00a0self why? Is there some task you would like to do, some channel in Then ask yourself these four questions: Don\u2019t just pass these questions by casually. Wrestle with them.<\/p>\n Think hard on them. Get emotional about them. Can you see that you\u00a0have cheated yourself and sold yourself short, not because of a \u201cfact,\u201d Indignation and anger can An old farmer said he quit tobacco for good one day when he discovered\u00a0he had left his tobacco home and started to walk the two miles Just as the transaction was about to be completed,\u00a0the lender\u2019s wife spoke up and said, \u201cDon\u2019t be a fool. He will Walt Disney said that he went from exploring ideas to being\u00a0determined to make a success of them, when a group of amusement A businessman friend of mine had a very similar experience. A\u00a0failure at 40, he continually worried about how things would come Who was\u00a0he to be pushed around like that? Who was he to skulk through the \u00a0<\/p>\n Interested in your own copy? \u00a0Get it here<\/a><\/p>\n And with that, we will meet again next time with chapter 5\u00a0\u00a0The Power of Deep Desire<\/em><\/p>\n And, always keep smiling with love and light,<\/p>\n Nancy Holtzen Work With Prosperity Team \u2013 Your Opportunity <\/a><\/p>\n p.s. \u00a0why I joined the Empower Network (listen here)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n previous post: \u00a0rational thinking<\/a> I remember Jeff Paul. \u00a0Subscribed to his program for about 6 months back in the mid 2000\u2032s ( I was the one who gave up!). \u00a0He has a wonderful series of CD\u2019s to play in the car and his methods were very similar to what I am learning today with the money making system I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[410,411,412,413,414,415,416,6],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empower-network","category-psycho-cybernetics","tag-beliefs","tag-bertrand-russell","tag-jeff-paul","tag-neuro-linguistic-programming","tag-nlp","tag-psychocybernetics","tag-psychology","tag-self-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat are inconsistent with some deeply felt conviction, is essentially the\u00a0same as the method tested clinically with such amazing success by
\nHow to Succeed with the Power of Rational Thinking 89
\nPrescott Lecky. Lecky\u2019s method consisted of getting subjects to \u201csee\u201d\u00a0that some negative concept of theirs was inconsistent with some other
\ndeeply held belief. Lecky believed that it was inherent in the very\u00a0nature of \u201cmind\u201d itself, that all ideas and concepts making up the total
\ncontent of \u201cpersonality\u201d must seem to be consistent with each other. If\u00a0the inconsistency of a given idea is consciously recognized, it must be
\nrejected.<\/p>\n
\nbeliefs, to get rid of the unproductive one. .
\nOne of my patients was a salesperson who was \u201cscared to death\u201d\u00a0wheh calling on \u201cbig shots.\u201d His fear and nervousness were overcome
\nin just one counseling session, during which I asked him, \u201cWould you\u00a0physically get down on all fours and crawl into the man\u2019s office, prostrating
\nyourself before a superior personage?\u201d
\n\u201cI should say not!\u201d he bristled.
\n\u201cThen why do you mentally cringe and crawl?\u201d
\nAnother question: \u201cWould you go into a man\u2019s office with your\u00a0hand out like a beggar, and beg for a dime for a cup of coffee?\u201d
\n\u201cCertainly not.\u201d
\n\u201cCan\u2019t you see that you are doing essentially the same thing,\u00a0when you go in overly concerned with whether or not he will approve\u00a0of you? Can\u2019t you see that you have your hand out, literally begging
\nfor his approval and acceptance of you as a person?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nby nearly everyone. These are (1) the feeling or belief that you are\u00a0capable of doing your share, holding up your end of the log, exerting a
\ncertain amount of independence, and (2) the belief that there is \u201csomething\u201d\u00a0inside you that should not be allowed to suffer indignities.<\/p>\n
\naccomplishment.<\/p>\n
\nquickly or easily and definitively motivate people to action. Knowing\u00a0this, you can use it to motivate yourself to constructive action.<\/p>\n
\nand a coauthor of the Psycho-Cybernetics book Zero Resistance Selling,\u00a0Jeff Paul, was once a Certified Financial Planner with some significant
\nsuccess, but horribly unhappy in his work. He disliked the commute\u00a0to the office, wearing a suit and tie, selling on the telephone and in
\nperson, and the repetitive nature of ~e work. One day, he had the\u00a0flash of rational thought that he need not continue making his living
\ndoing something he intensely disliked doing. He correctly, consciously\u00a0acknowledged there must be any number of other ways he could meet
\nhis financial goals.<\/p>\n
\nHe mentally prepared a list of things he did not want to do at all. His\u00a0list included having to wear a suit and tie; having to manage a staff;
\nsome dozen or so items in total. Then he utilized his imagination to\u00a0\u201dshop around\u201d for ideas about other careers and businesses that he
\nmight have some affinity for, but that would never require him to do\u00a0the things on his I Never Want to Do These Things Again List.<\/p>\n
\nclients. He envisioned a business in which he would publish that information\u00a0in the form of books, manuals, and recordings, then sell the
\nproducts to members of his profession by advertising and direct-mail.<\/p>\n
\nof his peers, his possession of useful knowledge to sell, his evolving\u00a0avid interest in mail order and willingness to learn. While his\u00a0earliest attempts were markedly unsuccessful,he \u201ccourse corrected\u201d
\nby a number of means and ultimately achieved extraordinary success I\u00a0will briefly enumerate here:<\/p>\n
\nbusiness model to others, and he has thus inspired many others\u00a0to create such businesses. A book he wrote about his experiences, to<\/p>\n
\nconsultant. Maybe most importantly, he has developed his businesses\u00a0and significant wealth without conflict with his I Never Want to Do\u00a0These Things Again List.<\/p>\n
\n\u201crational thought,\u201d as the all-important starting point.<\/p>\n
\nTrace down the belief about yourself, about the world, or about\u00a0other people that is behirtd your negative behavior. Does something
\nalways happen to cause you to miss out just when success seems within\u00a0your grasp? Perhaps you secretly feel unworthy of success, or that you
\ndo not deserve it. Are you ill at ease around other people? Perhaps you\u00a0believe you are inferior to them, or that other people per se are hostile\u00a0and unfriendly. Do you become anxious and fearful for no good
\nreason in a situation that is relatively safe? Perhaps you believe that the\u00a0world you live in is a hostile, unfriendly, dangerous place, or that you\u00a0deserve punishment.<\/p>\n
\na laundry list of reasons why they cannot do what he has done.\u00a0These \u201creasons\u201d are not reasons based on current rational thought at\u00a0all. They are just beliefs, subject to change.<\/p>\n
\nwhich you would like to express yourself, but you hang back feeling\u00a0that \u201cI can\u2019t\u201d? Ask yourself why?
\n\u201cWhy do I believe that I can\u2019t?\u201d
\nThen ask yourself, \u201cIs this belief based on an actual fact or on an\u00a0assumption \u00a0or a false conclusion?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n1. Is there any rational reason for such a belief?
\n2. Could it be that I am mistaken in this belief?
\n3. Would I come to the same conclusion about some other person in a\u00a0similar situation?
\n4. Why should I continue to act and feel as if this were true if there is no\u00a0good reason to believe it?<\/p>\n
\nbut only because of an irrational and erroneous belief? If so, try to\u00a0arouse some indignation or even anger.<\/p>\n
\nsometimes act as liberators from false ideas. Alfred Adler \u201cgot mad\u201d at\u00a0himself and at his teacher, and was enabled to throw off a negative definition
\nof himself. This experience is not uncommon.<\/p>\n
\nfor it. On the way, he saw that he was being \u201cused\u201d in a humiliating\u00a0way by a habit. He got mad, turned around, went back to the field, and\u00a0never smoked again.<\/p>\n
\nnever make enough money to pay it off.\u201d Darrow himself had had serious\u00a0doubts about the same thing. \u2018But \u201csomething happened\u201d when he
\nheard her remark. He became indignant, both at the woman and at\u00a0himself, and determined he would be a success.<\/p>\n
\npark owners criticized and laughed at his plans for Disneyland.<\/p>\n
\nout, about his own inadequacies, and whether or not he would be able\u00a0to complete each business venture. Fearful and anxious, he was
\nattempting to purchase machinery on credit, when the man\u2019s wife\u00a0objected. She did not believe he would ever be able to pay for it. At
\nfirst his hopes were dashed. But then he became indignant.<\/p>\n
\nworld, continually fearful of failure? The experience awakened \u201csomething\u201d\u00a0within him-some \u201cnew self\u201d-and at once he saw that this\u00a0woman\u2019s remark, as well as his own opinions of himself, were an
\naffront to this \u201csomething.\u201d He had no money, no credit, and no way\u00a0to accomplish what he wanted. But he found a way, and within three
\nyears was more successful than he had ever dreamed of being-not in\u00a0one business, but in three.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/uploads.wisestamp.com\/31f519bcf26ee52e41a15026c785d40e\/1367217044.png\"\/)
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