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EACH BUTTON ABOVE LINKS TO A DESCRIPTION
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Retrieve past experiences from your memory bank and restructure them to enhance the positives and neutralize the negatives. You will get more done and feel healthier.
Your brain can process only seven bits of information at any given time. That is why it is impossible to assimilate everything that assaults our senses throughout the day. To avoid overload, the brain filters all data, letting things in selectively, favoring those that conform to basic beliefs and values. Reality, therefore, is truly in the eyes of the beholder. Also in the ears, hands, mouth and nose. Those are the primary sensory channels through which data reaches an individual. This subjective filtering causes everyone's perception of an experience to be different than the actual happening. What gets through is a personalized version, which can be a far cry from the real thing. That personalized version is what is stored. So stored internal representations are not accurate depictions of what actually happened. They are the gospel according to our own interpretation. Past experiences can exert a powerful influence on present behavior. The positive ones can make you more effective. Negative experiences can do irreparable harm to mind and body if left in their original form. One of the basic concepts of the Baratt Core Lore System is that our positive past experiences can be used, as is or enhanced, as a resource to cope with present problems or situations. In addition, past negative experiences can be reworked so that they no longer take a toll on mind and body. It is also possible to construct or imagine future happenings, then store them on your mental timeline in a spot that is more visible to your mind's eye, so that they will materialize sooner. How is all this done? In two ways. First, by changing the context or structure of an experience. Second, by changing the content or storyline. How an experience looks and sounds and feels affects the context or structure. For example, making any scene or experience closer and clearer and bigger and brighter, with more color and contrast, all in your mind's eye, can enhance the positive aspects in most instances. In addition to context changes, you can change the content or storyline. You own the experience. It is yours to do with as you want. You do not have to permanently accept the original version you stored. You do not have to get permission from anyone to effect changes. Once you realize that you are the director and the editor, as well as the principal actor, in all your scenarios, you can learn, through the core lores, how to revise the original script, change the cast of characters, or put in a new ending. Your feelings and perspective will change as the reworked version replaces the original. In order to do all that, you have to compile an Experience Index, recalling and classifying your experiences, both the good ones and the bad ones. Some of them may have been repressed, buried so deep that they are not immediately subject to recall. Core Lore One deals with the methods you can use to extract your past experiences. Two basic approaches are used. First, questions designed to jog your memory, and second, various types of association. Silently questioning yourself, during odd moments, will help you remember what you have done well in the past, the worst and best things that have happened at various points in your life, what you are afraid to do, what you have had to do, what you have stopped doing, and so on. Association is the more systematic of the two approaches because it can be ongoing. This core lore introduces you to ten different types of association. Learning how to use them will help build your Experience Index. |
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After my first wife died, the logical course to restore my financial health appeared to be rebooting my law practice. But in what direction? Many years before, I had been a lone advocate of trusts, compared to wills, as the primary estate planning tool. Now, I felt the time was ripe for a full scale campaign. Feeling that I could proselytize the concept much more effectively with seminars, I booked the meeting room at a local hotel, placed advertisements in the papers, had a secretarial service take the reservations. In three days, all seats for the nine free seminars were filled. That was certainly a demonstation of interest. Could I take it one step further and spur people to action? There was a problem, though. I was terrified by the thought of giving the seminars. I felt I was rusty as all getout. Since I had been a caretaker for years, it almost seemed like starting my career anew. The presentation I had scripted was a good one. Nevertheless, I was afraid of freezing. I was afraid of erring on the legal end. I was afraid of ringers in the audience asking me questions I could not answer. I was in an emotional state that logic could not dispel. How to assuage my fears and pull it off? I had a lot riding on it and I had the courage of my convictions. What I did not have was the self-confidence so necessary to speak in a manner that those attending would find compelling enough to ask for a consultation. I decided to test that secret weapon. I looked for an associated experience and I found one in elementary school. My core lore system was still embryonic, at the time, but there was already enough to show me the way. Just before starting eighth grade, my family had moved to another neighborhood so that my last year before high school was spent in a new elementary school. There were no middle schools then. The principal, at that time, had a policy of putting all transfer students into the No. 4 class, comprised of a few kids like myself and a lot more who were considered slow learners. The No. 1 class contained the brightest students and so on. Well, imagine my surprise when I was summoned, at the end of the year, along with ten students from the No. 1 class, and told to read from a page that had been provided. We stood in a row in back of the room and took turns reading. My teacher sat in front, his back towards us, in order to be "impartial", and when we had finished, selected me to be the valedictorian at the graduation ceremonies. I can remember everything as if it happened yesterday. The No. 1 students looked at me in amazement. Could not figure out who I was. As I reconstruct it now, I think my teacher was so pleasantly surprised at my intelligence, that come hell or high water he was going to reward me, without regard for what others would say. Who ever said that life was fair? As far as he was concerned, fair was irrelevant. I gave the speech he had written to perfection. My voice was loud and clear and filled with proper emotion. I received a thunderous ovation that still rings in my ear when I think of it. So that is the experience I summoned to put me in the resourceful state so necessary for the trust seminars. It was like I was the valedictorian all over again. I recaptured all the feelings. The results were good. I was flooded with requests for office consultations and my trust practice took off like a shot. I used that elementary school experience before every other seminar I gave, and it worked each time. You can do the same. You can reproduce a prior positive state from a long ago experience and link it to a present one. Later, you will be shown how to anchor such a resource and how to fire it on demand. |
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Links To The Seven Core Lores Core Lore One: STRUCTURING YOUR REALITY Core Lore Two: RUNNING THE COPE-A-THON Core Lore Three: CONFRONTATION RESPONSE Core Lore Four: GOAL SETTING AND GETTING Core Lore Five: EXPEDITING IMPLEMENTATION Core Lore Six: MANAGING YOUR MIND Core Lore Seven: WORKING YOUR TIMELINE INFORMATION ON THE MANUALS & BONUSES LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES WORTH VISITING
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