About Morty Lefkoe
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Morty Lefkoe is president and founder of The Lefkoe Institute. He is the creator of a series of psychological processes (The Lefkoe Method) that result in profound personal and organizational change, quickly and permanently.
He has written a book about the Lefkoe Belief Process (LBP), Re-create Your Life: Transforming Yourself and Your World (Andrews McMeel, 1997; trade paper version, DMI Publishing, 2003). The book explains how the LBP works, how it is significantly different from most forms of psychotherapy, its spiritual implications, and how its principles can be applied to parenting, health, business, and social change. It also includes several case histories involving clients who have successfully dealt with dysfunctional patterns. Morty has also written an essay that details research on the mind-body connection in sports and his work with athletes. You can get a pdf of the article by clicking here.
Morty has written over 100 articles and columns for many publications, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He has appeared on over 100 radio and TV shows, including Today, Leeza, ABC World News Today, and Fox Cable News. His work has been written about extensively in the New York Times and a number of other publications.
A member of the American Counseling Association, Morty has written articles describing the Lefkoe Method for The California Therapist (Sept-Oct 2001, Vol. 13, Issue 5), The Group Therapist Perspective (Oct-Nov. 2001), and the California Psychologist (December, 2001).
He has spoken before such groups as the American Management Association, Vistage (formerly TEC), American Psychotherapy Association, American College of Counselors, American Association of Integrative medicine, National Wellness Coalition, Managed Health Care Congress (NE), Association for Fitness in Business, and American Psychological Association-National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health. Morty also has presented The Lefkoe Method to many other groups of psychotherapists, including in-service training at many mental health facilities. You can see video of one of his talks by clicking here.
He has conducted well over 200 seminars for groups of Chief Executive Officers on “A Proven Method for Successfully Instituting Change” and “Limiting Beliefs, Business and Personal: How to Identify and Eliminate Them.”
Morty received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he also attended the Graduate School of Business.
He resides in Novato, CA with his wife, Shelly. One of his daughters attends college at Washington University in St. Louis and the other at the University of Hawaii.
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Do you have a ‘distance-learning’(CD/Internet) program to allow people self -utilise your methods ?Thanks .
Hi Paul,
Yes we do. Go to http://recreateyourlife.com/store.
If you have any additional questions please feel free to call me at 415-456-7300.
Have a great weekend.
Regards, Morty
I am intrigued with the Lefkoe Process, I see close similarities between Dr. Edelstein’s 3minute therapy process and Lefkoe. I believe Dr. Edelstein gives credit to Albert E. Elis for originating the Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. In Lefkoe’s article “Is that all there is” he questions the thoughts of his parents teaching. It is a very good, straight forward process one that I think will be very effective. My question is, What is the difference between this process and Albert E. Ellis’s? I can’t wait to put this to work, thank you Morty!
Hi Jake,
I’ve never done Ellis’ work so I’m not sure of the differences.
Try them both and let me know what you think the differences are.
Regards, Morty
Hi Morty Lefkoe
I have read about your method , and about what it can do especially to the fear of public speaking , i want to ask you : what can your methode do for a stutter ?
and finally i live in Algeria , how can i purchase the end the fear of public speaking DVD ?
Hi Charrak,
I think we can help you with your stutter problems in one-on-one phone or Skype sessions. We work with people all over the world. If you want such sessions, call us at 415-884-0552. Or sign up at http://lefkoeinstitute.com and we will call you after you sign up for a session.
You can purchase the DVDs that will help you get rid of your fear of public speaking at http://undoityourself.com
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Regards, Morty
Morty…I’ve read that you ‘used’ to have a ‘money’ program that is no longer available. Is this because it is included in the whole package, and/or which areas? Also I would like to purchase the program, but everytime I click on the blog or anywhere else I am getting a ‘critical threat was blocked’ from my AVG program. I’m concerned this will interfere with the progam. Any ideas/help on this? And…I’m a little excited to get started.
Hi Cher,
We have a program of five limiting money beliefs. It is not being actively sold at the moment, but it is available.
Please call Karen at 415-884-0552 and tell her I said it was okay to sell it to you.
Also, we’ve cleaned up the problem on my blog and it is now totally safe. Sorry for the problem.
Regards, Morty
Hi Morty,
I’m thinking about getting one of your programs, and I’ve tried one of your free sessions onine to remove a belief. You seem to focus mainly on the harm that parents have done to people as children, but I don’t have much of any negative memories from my parents. However, I do have many memories that I believe have created some of the beliefs in my life, and they’re negative memories with a sibling and mostly friends from when I was a teenager. How do I use your program to remove my negative beliefs as a result of my simbling and friends?
Hi Larry,
My experience of over 25 years tells me that self-esteem beliefs are almost always formed in interactions with our parents (and sometimes other primary caretakers) in the first six years of life.
You may need some help in finding the source, but that is the source.
See my blog post on 3/16/10: htp://mortylefkoe.com on this topic.
Regards, Morty
One of the issues I have been struggling with is the belief there isn’t enough money. Do you have a program to deal with that belief, either directly or indirectly?
Thanks,
david
Hi David,
We have a program of five limiting money beliefs. It is not being actively sold at the moment, but it is available.
Please call Karen at 415-884-0552 and tell her I said it was okay to sell it to you.
Regards, Morty
Dear Morty,
I am definitely having money issues and listened to you on one of Joe Vitale’s seminars. I’d love to purchase your program about money beliefs, if that’s okay with you. I tried your program when it was free and liked it but found it didn’t help my beliefs around money for some reason.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best,
LD
P.S. Plato, Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars… Go, Maroons!
Hi LD,
The Package isn’t currently for general sale, but you can find it at http://recreateyourlife.com/amember/signup.php?price_group=-79
Love, Morty
The link in the email for the blog post “Why am I afraid to express love?” is not working. I cant find the blog on the website either.
please help.
Hi Princess,
It is at the end of the free beliefs and exists as a stand-alone on all the the DVDs we sell.
Love, Morty
I really want to start my own business, I have more than a couple good business ideas but I cant get over the fear of failing. I dread work everyday and I feel strongly that i was meant to do something more with my life than being confined to my cubicle all day. What can i do to break this limiting belief?
Hi Hector,
For some reason I never saw your comment when you posted a few months ago. I just saw it today when I visited this page. I am so sorry it has taken me so long to respond.
We have several packages of beliefs and conditionings that will enable you to eliminate all the beliefs that cause your fear. The one I recommend is Natural Confidence, which has 19 beliefs and four conditionings that undercut confidence and cause a fear of failing.
To get a sense how this works, you can eliminate one belief, Mistakes and failure are bad, without charge, to see how this belief-elimination process works. For the free process, go to http://recreateyourlife.com.
To see details on the Natural Confidence program, go to http://recreateyourlife.com/naturalconfidence.
Please let me know when the fear goes away.
Love, Morty
What is the “Who am I, really” process? I have seen it mentioned in your blog, but cannot find it anywhere. This sounds like something I could really use right now.
Hi Rose,
For some reason I never saw your post when you put it up a few months ago. I’m so sorry it’s taken me so long to respond.
The Who Am I Really? Process exists as a stand-alone in all of my DVD packages and it is also included at the end of the free beliefs.
If you have any more difficulty in finding the Process, please let me know. Also, let me know what you think of it.
By the way, it only works after you have eliminated at least one belief, so make sure you eliminate one of the free beliefs first: http://recreateyourlife.com
Love, Morty
You may be unaware of this – but after you unsubscribe to your site and blogs after about a month or so I start receiving information again.
Please be consistent with your values of permission and trust for people who choose to subscribe or unsubscribe to your service.
If you must keep my email then I don’t mind a kind reminder now and again – ‘Would you like to re-subscribe to Marty’s blog ..he has a new great….’
I don’t mind being informed in this manner but to put me back on your subscription list without my approval defies my trust in you and your message.
Love and light,
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
I have no idea what happened and will check into it.
The process of removing you from our mailing lists is automatic. When you request to be removed, you are automatically removed and we don’t even have your email address any more.
The only thing I can think of is that you had signed up twice and had only been removed once, but I will ask our webmaster to check into it and see what we can find.
We have no interest in mailing to people who do not want to her from us.
Sorry.
Love, Morty
Hi Morty,
I’m very happy that I found your work. In eliminatig fear of public speaking you also mentioned that this procedure helps with depression.My question is, what are the most common beliefs you found out with depressive people?
Thank you very much and continue your brilliant work
Hi Urska,
Depression usually involves a lot of beliefs and senses. I’d start with the core beliefs on the Natural Confidence program but you would have to go beyond that. Each person is different. We’d discover the specific beliefs in one-on-one sessions.
Love, Morty
Hi Morty
Well done on your work.
Are there any books you’d recommend that deal with the central theme of you being the creator of your world. I’m interested in psychological and philosophical insights into helping people realise they create their worlds.
Thanks
Mark
Hi MArk,
There is no specific book I can recommend.
I’m not as interested in “understanding” that I create my world as I am in creating the internal experience. That can easily be done with our Who Am I Really? Process. It is a stand-alone process in all of our packages and is included at the end of each of the free beliefs.
If you haven’t tried it yet, do so and let me know what you think.
Love, Morty
Hello Morty,
When asked to go back to the “source” to determine where the belief originated, I cannot remember any memories from my childhood. And if I do remember anything, it doesn’t come in a clear picture, mostly short, vague, fragmented ideas. Do I have to “know” the event from childhood in order for this to work, or since I can’t remember, can I just make up what a “reasonable” event might be? Thanks for your work and reply in advance.
Hi Kendra,
You don’t need to have specific memories. Just a sense of what went on earlier in life. If you know how your parents acted later in life, you can “extrapolate” backward to imagine what they must have done earlier.
Love, Morty
To Morty
People have been talking about childhood memories, they can be deep down in the unconcious or subconcious. Something has to triger them to come to the surface. It happened to me a couple of years ago. Healing takes time but a song can touch me and relate to this memory and what didn’t happen when I was a child. I would have loved to run to some safe parent for protection and comfort.
It happens to day or any time I play the Witney Houston song
“Run to You” I get affected emotionally and feel a healing in that song. Actually a lot of her music lifts me up.
Take Care, thanks so much for this Forum Morty
Trevor
Hi, Morty. I’m doing your current Occurring 4 course and I am very happy to know you will do the call next Sunday on hootless.com. Looking forward to hearing you there.
Hi Morty,
Just last night I listened to your audio about eliminating the belief that mistakes and failure are bad. Just 30 minutes and something I’ve been carrying around with me for a life time is now gone. That was something that was really holding me back as I move forward in several new ventures. The courage I now feel is miraculous. You’re amazing! Thank you.
Morty, I don’t think you’ve realised that you’ve cracked liberation itself. As in enlightenment. Simply apply the process to the belief “I exist” – as in “there exists a thing called ‘I’ which is separate from the mind, body, awareness etc.”
Once you see that “I exist” was never there until the mind created it, you are free. Forever.
Try it. And if it works, make sure *everyone* knows.
Hi Morty,
You have isolated the essense of much of the misery in the human condition – our lens of belief (what we think we know) bends what happens, and generally, in a way that makes us miuserable.
But I can’t make your occurring technique work at all. Case in point. I ask a lady to dance. She declines – saying she’s tired and will get to me next time. This makes perfect sense – she often compliments me on my dancing and often asks me to dance. Yet, the misery persists.
My lens (the belief that I am an ugly toad, repugnant to all women) dominates my superior intellectual understanding of that event. The miserable interpretation washes the smarts away entirely.
Recognising the different between the event and the occurring simply doesn’t disempower the occuring at all. Not for me, nor the people I’ve tried it with.
I thnk I may be missing a subtely of your technique, Morty. Can you straighten me out?
Many thanks,
Chris
Hi Morty,
I’m already on the 5th belief in your Confidence program. I already “hear” less self talk in my head, and that’s great, given the small amount of time and effort I put. I feel I’m less nervous around people and that I missed a lot in my life because of the meanings I gave to past events. I was slaughtering my dreams by my own thinking.
However, I have two questions, Morty:
1/ I still feel some minor doubts after I say out loud the limiting belief, at the end of it. Do I have to repeat the track or should I go to the Conditioning part?
2/ Once negative beliefs are eliminated, are there any programs you recommend for installing new empowering ones?
By the way, thanks for putting this knowledge in numerical form! It’s so handy
Wassim, from Tunisia.
Hi Wassim,
Thanks for your interest in our work.
If the belief still feels true at the end of the Process, repeat the second part dealing with “did you see it in the world.” That usually will make sure the belief is eliminated.
It also is possible that the belief is gone but you have a hard time believing it is gone,
Also make sure that you are not confusing a specific belief being eliminated with other similar beleifs. When you check to see if I’m not good enough is gone, the question is not do you feel good about yourself (which is a function of many beliefs) but only do the words of that specific belief feel true.
Second, we don’t think it is necessary or advisable to install new beleifs. See my blog post on that topic: http://www.mortylefkoe.com/010510/
Love, Morty
Thank you Morty, your method has changed my life. I have few more beliefs which are not covered in your program. One such belief causes fear of abandonment.
I acknowledge for making such a powerful program.
Hi Navneet,
We have one-on-one phone and Skype sessions where we help people find and eliminate beleifs that are not on one of our DVD programs. Call us for more information at 415-884-0552.
Thanks for your interest in our work.
Love, Morty
Hi Morty,
Do you do any in person work with locals? Do you have local therapists with whom you work? I have only recently discovered your work and done one of your free sessions. I am very excited about the possibilities, not only for myself, but for my children as I become a better parent as a result of your help.
Best regards,
Adrienne
By local, I mean near Novato. Sorry for the ambiguity!
Hi Adrienne,
Yes, we have an office in Novato where we see clients, however, over 95% of our clients are around the world and our sessions are on the phone or on Skype.
We also have a great course on parenting. For more information check out: http:parentingthelefkoe way.
Please call us at 415-884-0552 for more information.
Goood Afternoon Morty,
I wanted to know if your process could be taught to children? If so, what is the earliest age that it would be effective for children and how effective would it be?
Hope all is well,
Chuck
Hi Chuck,
It might be difficult to teach the Lefkoe Belief Process to children so they could use it, but they certainly could have someone use it with them to help them eliminate beliefs.
The age is dependent on the child but if a child can follow a conversation for 20 minutes and answer the questions, they could do the process. I’d say at least 12-13 for most kids.
Love, Morty
Hi Morty,
I just want to tell you my current situation. I am currently studying pharmacy in the UK. To be a good pharmacist you need to have good social skills. But social skills are my problem.
When I work in a pharmacy and have to deal with customers I get nervous when I have to talk to them. I find it difficult to make new friends and speak up when I am in large groups. I think the nervousness comes from the fact that I think to myself what if I say something stupid and everyone starts laughing at me, or what If I say something and it make someone angry. I know I have to sort the problem out if I want to become a successful pharmacist.
I’ve tried I’m not good enough free belief elimination and I don’t think it really changed anything. I think this is because this belief might not be related to my problem and it was my first attempt to eliminate a belief.
I looking to buy one of your DVD programs, how to gain self confidence. From experience do you believe this is the right program and which other DVDs would you recommend from what I have told you.
Thanks for your help and all your inspirational work
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for your interest in our work.
Our Natural Confidence program would be the best bet for the social anxiety you describe. This DVD will handle most if not all of the problem. If it isn’t totally gone, that would mean that there are a few additional beleifs causing your problem, and you might need one or two one-to-one sessions on the phone or Skype with one of our certified facilitators.
If you have additional problems, please feel free to call us at 415-884-0552.
Please let me know how you feel after you complete the NC program.
Love,Morty
hello,
i am new here and i tried your video free elimination of belief , i dont know weather it is gone or not, however i am wondering , that i have faced with abuse , theft , kind of experience now a days. so recommend me any programme . the experience actually broken me down. its like some one stole my b aby.
regards morty
What liebarting knowledge. Give me liberty or give me death.
Hi Morty, Great work your doing – a big thankyou from me – I’ve busted a couple of beliefs already and its amazing how quickly the results are noticed. WAIR does indeed “blow your socks off” – the idea is profound and very poweful. A couple of questions I wanted to ask – if I may…? How many programmes are there (in total) that can be purchased from your store. For instance – the programme i’ve just bought (Get Natural Self Confidence) – I think covers 19 beliefs and 4 de-conditioning excercises. However, I know you’ve mentioned elsewhere that its possible to identify / eliminate as many as several hundred beliefs…… I’m wondering whether or not you’ve got a “definitive list” of all the beliefs that can be eliminated using TLM – which are available for sale via the dvd / streaming video. This leads me to my next question – I live over in the UK. Do you have any licenced practitioners of TLM operating over here currently – if I wanted to do some work on myself in a one on one setting? And also – how would one go about becoming a licenced practitioner of your work? Thanks again Morty – Jon
Hello
Does your method work with young children who have ADHD, ODD, sensory disorders, and PDD- NOS?
Thank you
jo
Hi,
A client must be able to follow the steps of the Lefkoe Belief Process. Although every child is different, I think we need someone who is at least 13-14 years old.
I think our work can be useful with ADD and ADHD and stress.
One thing about working with children, it is difficult to work with them unless their parents also have done our work and know what it is and support it.
Love,Morty
I am unable to access rereateyourlife.com. Is it still active?
Hi Steve, put a little ‘c’ after rereate and try again. Have a great day!
Hi Morty
I cannot access the “Eliminate a Belief Free” website. The following message appears (over a period of two days):-
Website Offline, No Cached Version Available
The website you are trying to access is currently offline. The most likely causes are the server is down for maintenance, there may be a network problem, or the site may be experiencing excessive load.
The site uses CloudFlare in order to help keep it online when the server is down by serving cached copies of pages where they are available. Unfortunately, a cached copy of the page you requested is not available, but you may be able to reach other cached pages on the site.
If you continue to receive this error after you believe the site is back online, you can retry a live version of the site.
Is this no longer available?
I would really like to try your technique.
Kind regards
Karen
Hi Karen,
Try this site. It got me to the ReCreate Your Life website.
http://www.recreateyourlife.com/free/
Hope that helps.
First heard about you from Hootless.com. Can’t find a “Contact Us” page. How do we get in touch with you? How can we get info on courss, dates and costs?
Hi Chuck,
Sorry it’s been difficult to find me.
We have several websites. You can eliminate a belief without charge at http://recreateyourlife.com.
Our occurring course can be found at http://occurringcourse.com/discover.
Learning how to eliminate a belief training at http://lefkoeuniversity.com.
Or call us at 415-884-0552.
Looking forward to serving you.
Love, Morty
Hi Morty,
I ellimnated the belief Mistakes and failure are bad, however when I am in situation where I make a mistake, I still feel bad, but coniscously remember/become aware that I am the interpreter of the situation and rationally I can tell myself that I am not that emotion. When I eliminated the belief I was sure that it was gone, but now that I am in the situation again I feel bad when making a mistake. Does this than mean the procedure has to be done again?
Hi AA,
It is possible for beliefs to come back for people who are primarily “emotionally kinesthetic,” in other words, people who operate mainly out of their feelings. In which case, just do the process again and eliminate the belief.
In most case, however, beliefs that are eliminated stay gone forever. There are many other beliefs and conditionings that cause can you to feel bad when making a mistake: If I make a mistake or fail I’ll be rejected, Fear associated with failing, etc.
Love, Morty
Thank you for the timely reply Morty, I really appreciate it. The thing is, when I eliminated the belief “mistakes and failures are bad” – on reflecting back on the situation – I recognize that I felt insecure because I also have this limiting belief that I might not be intelligent. I muscle tested the belief and the answer for “mistakes and failures are bad” is still a no. So that confirms it for me that the belief is gone. So yeah I can definitely relate to the last paragraph.
However, I was wondering if you can share some insight, I once did a nlp representative test and it showed that I was digital, the auditory then kiestetic, followed by visual. It might be kinestetic first then auditory to. I have done a lot of breath work in the past to release my emotional patterns and create more awareness of my body as I was pretty numb before. Basedupon what I wrote, I have a couple of questions:
1) is working on the kinestetic side a aspect that could turn back on a person. such as you mentioned above?
2) I have noticed a pattern in the way you structure your belief chancing procedure. Do you by chance also teach this? So I can explore my own belief system better and have a complete freedom ?
Warm greetings.
AA
Hi Morty,
So several months ago I eliminated one of my negative beliefs “I’m not important”, by using your eliminate a belief for free link. This change was profound. Thank you so much for your program and what you have done for no doubt countless numbers of people. But I have a problem. I was able to rid myself of that one belief but I have such a hard time doing the others because I procrastinate all the time. I have had your ‘natural confidence’ program on my computer for months and have only done one belief. I want to do them all but I feel there is something seriously holding me back. Every time I think hmm I will do the lefkoe process today I end up feeling like I cant succeed at it and do nothing. Is it possible to have a fear of success?
Best,
Tyler
Dear Morty and Shelly
I bought in on confidence nearly 4 years ago and it has made a HUGE difference to me. What you do is ten times more effective than anything the ‘secret’ congregation have achieved and 100 times more real than ANY formal religion I’ve encountered. The only thing that comes close (in my EXPERIENCE remember ) is continual exercise and healthy diet.;-)
I believe you have been so successful because you are somewhat of a saint. You have lost the shackles of blame and the ball and chain of judgmental attitude. Your method is supported by personal dedication and the generousity to share your lives with your followers – genuinely.
How many of the grandees personally keep in touch with the tom dick and harry brigade of hopeful – often shy explorers? How many of the “look-how-great-I-am” big list / affiliate dudes check back and apologise for delays in responding?! How many of them are actually THERE? Well you guys ARE. I so appreciate you and thank you.
Anyone who does this (in whatever form) is going to thank themselves for it – well I did just that long before I thanked Morty and Shelly BTW
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I’ll be back
love Jackie
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Hi Monavie,
Glad to hear that you find my posts useful. Thanks for sharing them with your social networks.
Love,Morty
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