Supportive Inner Beliefs
What is What are inner beliefs? about ?
With inner beliefs we refer to deeply held convictions that influence one’s perception, thinking, decisions and behaviour. They are personal assumptions or thought patterns about oneself, about how the world works, how people are, or how to assess a particular situation.
Inner Beliefs are an accumulated mix coming from experience, upbringing, interpretations and cultural influences throughout our lives. Not all of them are helpful and often we are not aware of them.
What are examples of supportive and hindering inner beliefs?
Here are a few examples of limiting, hindering beliefs:
- I'm not good enough.
- It's hard to make money in my profession.
- Other people are unreliable.
Here are a few examples of supportive beliefs
- I am a darling of fortune
- If I set my mind to something seriously, I can do it.
- I am valuable.
You can think of inner beliefs like an imaginary map based on thoughts and feelings that helps you navigate through life. It shows where dangers supposedly lurk and where it is likely to be worthwhile to wander. It includes personal preferences and indicates how flat and easy or steep and stony a path is to get to the points of interest such as dreams and goals.
How can we work with Supportive Inner Beliefs?
Working with Supportive inner beliefs is a practice to review and redesign this inner map in order to pave ways to the promising destinations and to keep from going to places that are not beneficial. It is about looking at single sentences in order to understand one’s thought patterns and aligning them with goals and dreams.
Supportive Inner Beliefs help remove blocks and overcome limitations that prevent us from achieving our goals and dreams. When you're helping your participants to break new ground, tackle challenging projects, or do something they've never dared before, working with supportive inner beliefs is extremely helpful. You can also use them when your participants are stuck on an issue or trapped in sabotaging behaviour patterns.
Working with Supportive Inner Beliefs has come up in many areas of psychology, self-development and psychotherapy without a clear source it can be traced back to.





Audience
Is participant experience relevant for Supportive Inner Beliefs ?
Physical Trust Needed

Mental Trust Needed

Audience description for Supportive Inner Beliefs
Supportive Inner Beliefs are helpful for anyone with the ability and willingness for self reflection. It is especially recommended for participants
-who want to explore new possibilities in themselves and go beyond the limits of what they thought possible or dared before.
-who want to tackle big challenges such as starting a new project or business.
-who feel stuck in their thoughts or lives or trapped in recurring behaviour patterns and want to act with more ease.
Other prerequisites for participants
The participants should have a topic they want to work with - a dream or goal they want to reach, a challenge they want to master or a difficulty they want to overcome. Alternatively you can give them some time at the beginning to think about a topic to work with during the session.
Requirements
Not specifically
Run Through
Introduce Inner Beliefs
Instructions for Supportive Inner Beliefs
Group work
Anchor the inner beliefs
Future step
Harvest
Give your participants a moment to write down their sentence in a beautiful way on a small piece of paper to keep it in their pockets, wallets or hang it over their beds or mirrors. If you have the time and the group is open to it, they can also decorate the sentence with drawings, ornaments or pictures.
Gather your participants and invite them to share their insights during that process of discovery, anchoring and future step. Make sure that when back in the setting of a plenum with more people around than in their trios no one feels pressured to tell about their process or sentence.
Can you work with Supportive Inner Beliefs online?
Finding Supportive Inner Beliefs and the future step both work perfectly online. Depending on what anchoring technique you choose, it might be needed to meet in person for the last step. On the other hand there are also anchoring techniques that can be better done at home, e.g. listening to the recording every night before falling asleep that work well with an online or blended setting.
How else can one work with Supportive Inner Beliefs?
The proposed group setting is especially important and helpful for people who haven’t worked with Supportive Inner Beliefs before. Once you have done it a few times, it is easy to get into the habit of finding Supportive Inner Beliefs whenever you feel stuck, limited or facing a challenge. It can also be done alone, on the go, with just a little of internal focus time to anchor the new sentences.
Supportive Inner Beliefs facilitation materials
Paper and pens for each group to write down their ideas for Supportive Inner Belief Sentences.
If you want you can make an overview chart with the most important tips on how to compose an excellent Supportive Inner Belief sentence.
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ERASMUS +
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