Beliefs and Values
Hi
Here's your opportunity to test your thinking and understanding of the work you covered on Beliefs and Values part of the Advanced NLP Patterns workshop.  The questions cover general background information, change techniques and reframes.
Have a go and find out for yourself how much you already know.
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"I can never remember names" is a belief at which level?
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"Before, After, Whenever" elicit which Cause?
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When people are getting to the edge of their map, they are often likely to say things like
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We can know that we hold a particular belief because
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Belief Strengthening uses the Aristotle Effects.
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"You are what you eat" is a belief statement at which level?
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Sleight of Mouth Patterns seek
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Beliefs are nested together and interlinked.
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Statement:              Spending money is a sign of compensating behaviour.
Reframe:                 Perhaps you believe this because you attribute negative causes to every action.
What reframe is this?
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Statement:              Air travel is the biggest polluter and people who fly are profoundly selfish.
Reframe:                 Even though flight brings countries and people together in a way that supports trade and peace?
What reframe is this?
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People are always aware of the beliefs they hold.
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"Because, Therefore, So that" generate which Causes?
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We can detect beliefs in the language we use.
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Severe disagreements arise when an important value is violated.
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Beliefs resulted from a decision we took at some stage earlier in our lives, and served us usefully at that time.
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A Belief Audit tests us for our readiness to change against the Dilts criteria.
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Opportunities to change have to be big and significant to match the importance of the problem.
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Beliefs can be bad and negative.
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John McWhirter makes the distinction between knowledge, beliefs and conviction in terms of evidence.  Beliefs are based on ...
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Working with beliefs is just the same as working with behaviours or skills.
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"It always goes wrong for me."  is evidence of which limiting belief?
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Statement:              Parents who smack their children are merely letting the child know the acceptable boundaries.
Reframe:                 It's not so much to do with the child's boundaries, only the parent's limitations.
What reframe is this?
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Statement:              Promoting self expression as opposed to learning basic grammar is the cause of our semi illiteracy in the under 35's.
Reframe:                 Has the levels of illiteracy risen significantly in the last 50 years?
Which reframe is this?
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Our beliefs
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Limiting beliefs are usully expressed tentatively.
How did you do?  This is just the theory.  The real proof of the pudding is finding out that your knowledge makes a useful differnce out there for real.