Creating a manualized cognitive restructuring program that helps people control their thinking errors and self defeating behaviors is an art form that few have mastered.
The question is, is it possible to go into the subconscious mind and actually change thoughts? The answer is "yes" and the secret lies in Dr. David R. Hawkins book on truth vs falsehoods. The truth has power that can penetrate the wall of self-defeating thoughts and help people locate the reality about them. That is, they are many times better than they think they are.
To develope a cognitive rebuilding schedule one must widely understand the truth, otherwise the written words do not have penetrating energy. In result untrue words are removed from the page and fall to the floor. When they are on the ground they are forgotten along with many other false words.
True words can lift people to a greater self-esteem therefore untrue words can depress. True words have a higher intelligence that excites energies that resonate at a frequency that people will accept it. It is this cognitive dissonance internalization that affects a change in faulty thinking.
For example after 30 years of working with domestic violence victims it makes me happy when I am sitting in class and people use the self-actualization process. Most abused women see themselves as $2.00 women where the truth is they are really an $8.00 or $10.00 woman. Once they have had their third or fourth session of applying true words given through a correctly structured cognitive restructuring program, the truth starts to have its affect.
This reprogramming is illustrated in their physical, mental and emotional exhilaration. The first and last manifestations for most are remarkable and permanent. Now we must|However let us} remember that cognitive restructuring counseling is an invitation to change, not a force, change is what the client must achieve for themselves.
The main reason counseling programs are ineffective is because they arent structured properly and they contain little penetrating truth. The reason is that the person(s) who wrote it were missing truth. People can go to psychotherapy for years and not change because the therapist does not have all the truth. Whereas the truth can have a permanent impact on people in a couple of hours, the truth is what it is.
Lifeskills Counselor, Larry Lloyd, is the founder of the American Community Corrections Institute (<a href="http://www.accilifeskills.com/contactinfo.php" style="text-decoration:underline;">ACCI</a>)) which creates truth-filled <a href="http://www.accilifeskills.com/cognitiverestructuring.php/" style="text-decoration:underline;">cognitive restructuring</a> curriculum.
