Faulty Thinking Can be Overcome

Producing a manualized cognitive restructuring program that successfully helps individuals overcome thinking errors and self-defeating conduct is an art form that very few have mastered.

Is it possible to go into someone's subconscious mind and modify thoughts? YES! The secret lies in a book by Dr. David Hawken on truth vs. falsehoods. The truth has a force that can break through the veil of self-imposed falsehoods and aid people in discovering the truth about themselves. That is, help them see that they are worth much more than they believe they are.

Developing a cognitive restructuring curriculum entails possessing a great knowledge of truth, if this is lacking the written words will not penetrate the mind. In effect untrue words drop off the page and right onto the ground. There they disintegrate and die and are forgotten along with millions of other untrue words.

True words lift people to a higher calibration while untrue words can discourage. True words contain a higher intelligence that excites energies that resonate at a frequency that people accept. It is this cognitive force that has the ability to change flawed thinking.

After 30 years of working with domestic violence victims it is enlightening to sit in the sessions and see this self-actualization process. The majority of abused women believe that they have very little worth, when in all actuality they have great worth. By the time they reach the 3rd or 4th session of applying true words delivered through a correctly structured cognitive restructuring program, the truth starts to have its affect.

This reprogramming is shown in their physical, mental and emotional elation. Transformations for most people are outstanding and enduring. Nevertheless let us remember that cognitive restructuring counseling is an invitation to change, not a force. Only the client has the responsibility to change him/herself. The main reason counseling programs are unsuccessful is because they are not structured correctly and they contain very little penetrating truth. The reason is that the individual(s) who wrote it lacked truth. People may go to psychotherapy sessions for years and years and not change due to the fact that the therapist is not aligned with truth. The truth can have a enduring impact on people in a matter of hours, however, it must be present.

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Larry Lloyd, is the founder of the American Community Corrections Institute (www.accilifeskills.com/contactinfo.php) which creates truth-filled cognitive restructuring curriculum to reduce crime(www.accilifeskills.com/cognitiverestructuring.php). See also their blog at www.cognitivelifeskills.com