Thanks for taking the time to visit my site and review my ideas in more
depth and for your comments.
I am seeking a grant that will enable me to do long term fu with
incarcerated offenders. In the meantime, however, I have observed many
individuals over many years whose behavior changed as the result of
eliminating beliefs and whose behavior stayed changed. This is admittedly
anecdotal and controlled studies are needed. But eating disorders,
chronic depression, worrying about what others think of you, phobias, etc.
have disappeared and stayed gone many years later.
If behavior is the result of beliefs, then permanently eliminating the
beliefs will change the behavior permanently.
Gregory Bateson makes the following distinction in Steps to an Ecology of
Mind:
"Learning I is change in specificity of response by correction of errors
of choice within a set of alternatives. Learning II is change in the
process of Learning I, e.g., a corrective change in the set of
alternatives from which choice is made, or it is a change in how the
sequence of experience is puncuated. Learning III is change in the
process of Learning III, e.g., a corrective change in the system of sets
of alternative from which choice is made....
"In sum, this self-validating characteristic of the content of Learning II
has the effect that such learning is almost ineradicable.... What has been
said above about the self-validating character of premises acquired by
Learning II indicates that Learning III is likely to be difficult and rare
even in human beings."
The Decision Maker(R) Process facilitates both Learning II and III,
easily.
I'd like to continue the dialogue.
Morty Lefkoe
For information about the Decision Maker(R) Institute and
my book, Re-Create Your Life: Transforming Yourself and
Your World, visit http://decisionmaker.com
> From: Ray Evans Harrell <mcore@IDT.NET>
>
> Beliefs are like children. You don't know whether they have changed for
> the better until the last work is done. ...snip...
--"decisionmaker.com" <Morty@decisionmaker.com>
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