1. Many people’s experience of changing beliefs has been that it was hard, and they probably got frustrated and gave up.  It ends up that way because they didn’t have a good system of techniques, and needed skills. Without skills and a system you are left battling your unconscious with will power and your intellect which isn’t enough.  
2.  Changing beliefs is actually straightforward when you combine several skills correctly. There are practices to gain control over your attention, perspective, and emotions etc. You also need a roadmap in how and when to apply the different techniques. Without those skills and roadmap you will become confused, go the wrong direction, or apply the wrong technique in the wrong place. The result is failure, frustration, and usually self judgment about failing. 
3. Learning to play a game was difficult when you didn’t know how. If you didn’t know the rules, you would be confused looking at the board. A skilled person could easily defeat you. If you were skilled at a game, any game, like a video game, checkers, or monopoly, and a new person showed up. You could easily beat them. This is how your belief system makes things hard until you learn the rules of the game, and the skills to play it.
4. About it being “hard”  What I found really hard was to continue to live in the same emotional cycles, and negative self judgment loops in my mind. That was not only hard, but painful. For me, changing beliefs was hard, but not changing them, or not even trying was much harder.   

Emotions are created because your mind interpreted an event meant a certain thing. These are automatic and quick interpretations done by your unconscious beliefs. Emotional reactions are created by your belief system. Yes, there are different sources (read my book MindWorks for a list of 9 different sources) but the main source of our negative emotions is from our false beliefs operating in our sub-conscious.  

Changing beliefs is addressing the source of emotions. The Self Mastery approach is the most comprehensive system for changing these beliefs

I regularly have clients who have this fear. They are always surprised, and relieved to realize they are not a terrible person. What they discover is that the “terrible person” was just a false image of themselves that they believed was them. They also found some emotional patterns and memories from their past to release, which they were able to do with the practices. The Recapitulation practices are very good for these releasing processes and that’s why I am including them in the Self Mastery Academy. 

Beyond that false belief image they discover a really great person. 

What I can tell you is that if you have a fear of being a “terrible person”, then you have a desire to NOT be a terrible person. Your desire to “not be terrible” is evidence of a good moral person inside you as well.  

It is very common for my clients to have gotten overwhelmed in their attempts before they had a system and developed skills. That’s why the Self Mastery program is spaced over 20 weeks. Longer if you count the 4 free lessons of the Self Mastery Introductory Course. It takes a few weeks and repetitions to build a strong neural pathway that becomes automatic. 

It is these new neural pathways that you will be building through exercises so you gain control of your attention and perspective. The exercises you will be practicing will also give you skills to process your emotions and release them in a healthy way. This way emotions don’t build up and overwhelm you. 

With the Academy coaching classes to guide you even more efficiently we can pinpoint what happens in the “overwhelm” cycle and address it. This is why I say that The Self Mastery Academy is the most comprehensive training system for changing your beliefs. 

I developed it by working with people who had tried and failed due to things like “overwhelm” in their other approaches. 

The skills you learn in the Self Mastery Academy will do better than teaching you to stop your emotions. You will learn healthy ways to process and release your emotions so that you don’t have to avoid, fear, or repress them.  You need emotions. Turning them off is like numbing out. Often that leads to not caring about things, and can cascade to depression. 

Healthy movement of your emotions through your body without believing your thoughts isn’t learned while growing up. This is one of the major skills I realized my individual clients were lacking. When I recently improved the Self Mastery Course I included an extra exercise on releasing emotions. 

What we learned was to repress them until the pressure built up and we vented. Another problem loop we get into is we believe what we think in those emotional moments, thereby reinforcing those emotional beliefs. This often involves judgment or blame.  In the Self Mastery exercises you will learn skills to avoid these automatic responses. In the Academy classes you will get guided instruction on exactly where and how to apply these release practices. 

This is one of those self help myths.  “What we put our attention on grows”.  It’s not that simple. If we put our attention on an idea and accept it as true, it becomes a belief and grows.  However, if we put our attention on a belief, and are skeptical of it, it becomes less powerful and can dissolve. It’s not just that you put your attention on something, it matters what you do with your attention, and action.

You can put your attention on your emotion, and it can take you for a spiraling ride til you feel out of control. This is what happens when you don’t have skillful control over your attention. In the Academy, and Self Mastery course you will learn control over your attention. When you combine that with other skills you can place your attention on your negative emotions and dissolve them. 

How can we address everyone’s obstacles in a class?  The questions and resistance points you have, are likely to be the same for a third of the group. By the time we cover 3-5 of the main resistance points most everyone’s issues will be covered. As signups increase, we will add more classes in order to answer more individual questions. 

There are also benefits from a group process. You might have some feeling of angst, but it isn’t clear and you haven’t articulated the issue yet. Another person will ask a question  that clarifies your angst, before you even understood the problem. This gives you faster clarity and relief about an issue, and answer you didn’t know you were looking for. 

Birds fly more efficiently and effortlessly in a flock when working together and that’s what we will be taking advantage of.