The relationship between beliefs and occurring
Creating a new theory or change technique is an interesting process for me. I usually first get only a very vague sense of an entire idea. I can barely grasp it; I just have a sense of it, like an object in the fog where I sense “something out there,” but the outlines and details of that “something” are very vague. I have an intuitive sense that there’s something useful there, but I’m not sure precisely what it is. Then, over time, little by little the fog starts to clear away until I am able to distinguish aspects of the [...]
I was wrong about how beliefs are formed
It’s interesting how it’s possible to think you really understand something and then at some later point realize that your understanding was incomplete. It wasn’t wrong, but your new realization provides a much more accurate understanding. That’s what happened to me with the Lefkoe Belief Process (LBP). What I initially thought about how beliefs are formed When I first created the LBP 29 years ago, it seemed to me that our basic self-esteem-type beliefs were formed in childhood as a result of many interactions with parents. (For more details, please see two earlier posts: https://www.mortylefkoe.com/031610/ and https://www.mortylefkoe.com/wonderful-parents/#) In some cases [...]
