the map of reality expander lesson 1 • beliefs • homework

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The Map of Reality Expander Lesson 1 • Beliefs • Homework

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A Few Tips:

Yes, there is quite a bit to do here. That’s partly because I’m asking

you to learn a number of definitions and principles here that underlie

the rest of the lessons.

It would best to finish this homework before Lesson 2, but if you

can’t for some reason, still go on to Lesson 2, and please don’t stress

over it. Do a little bit each day, and have fun discovering more about

yourself and how your beliefs shape your life. Ask yourself “How

can I have fun discovering more about myself as I play with this

information?”

After we get these first two lessons out of the way, homework for the

other lessons will be much shorter, I promise.

I suggest doing question number one (which has multiple items

within it) on the first day, then take the next five or ten days to do

the remaining 5 questions. Do one question per day or one every



two days. If you spend just 15 minutes each day, you should have

no trouble completing the homework before the next lesson. For

greatest learning, please don’t work on the homework for more than

30 minutes without taking a break.

Treat this as an interesting process of discovering more about your

beliefs and how they shape your results in life. There are no wrong

answers, and there is no pressure to do this a certain way. Anything

you discover makes this worthwhile.

If the answers to certain questions don’t come to you right away, let

that be okay. Ponder them as you go through your day and let the

answers come. Above all, stay relaxed about this and focus on what

you want. I’ve left a number of spaces in each question for you to

write your answers. This doesn’t mean you have to fill each space,

or deal with as many beliefs as there are spaces. Do as many as you

want. The more beliefs you work with, however, the more you will

learn.

Those who faithfully do all the homework report incredibly positive

results. You do want incredibly positive results, don’t you?



Exercises:

1. Listen to the audio lesson a second time or read the Lesson Notes as a

review. To make sure you understand the terms and concepts I use, as

you encounter each of these terms, I want you to jot down the definition,

a short description of each term, or fill in the blank:

• Internal Map of Reality:

• The “safety” part of you:

• The two reasons why, for some people, “nothing works”:

• “For any outcome, whether internal or external, there’s a certain

way of and

that will get it for you. You have to find it and be

enough to adopt it.”

• The filters in your Internal Map of Reality include:



• These filters do three things: 1) ,

2) , and

3) . (Paragraph 36)

2. Define each of the three things filters do:

1.

2.

3.

3. Define internal representations:



4. List the six kinds of internal representations (also called thinking

modalities):

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

5. What three important aspects of your life are generated by the internal

representations you make?

1.

2.

3.



6. Why are internal states, behaviors, and internal representations called

“a cybernetic loop”?

7. Fill in the blanks.

When you make internal representations about something you

begin to get about how to get it,

you notice about how you might

get it, you discover and draw on

you didn’t know you had and would not otherwise tap into, and

you create the to act.

8. Define focusing:

•



9. Define beliefs:

•

10. Write out Important Principle #1 (Paragraph 64).

11. Write out Important Principle #2 (Paragraph 65):



12. Three ways we “prove” that what we believe is true:

1.

2.

3.


14. Fill in the blanks.

People who’ve had significant,



emotional experiences create a generalization, that the world is

a place, or at least a potentially

dangerous place, and that they must that danger.

To do so, they have to on it. Since focusing

on anything gives your mind an to

create or attract more of it, such people end up getting the very

thing they’re trying to avoid. In this way, the emotional charge on

past traumas pulls your attention to ,

creating more of it.

15. A good way to change your focus to what you want is to:




17. Fill in the blank.

Beliefs have . They create

.

Why?

18. What is “as if” thinking?

19. Write out Important Principle #5:



20. What do I mean by “doing something consciously” or “doing something

with awareness”?

21. List three ways of “going unconscious”:

1.

2.

3.

22. Write out Important Principle #6:



23. Fill in the blank. (Paragraph 96)

Beliefs are nothing more than to

make something happen in your life.

24. Fill in the blank. (Paragraph 104)

For every experience you have, you have a choice: to respond by

focusing on ,

or on .

25. What are two clues that you are focusing on what you don’t want?

1.

2.






Though what you believe does manifest in your life, this doesn’t

happen by magic. What you believe manifests in your life because

you to make it manifest.






There is a to pay to make

changes in your life.

32. As a way of helping you determine what you believe in several

important areas of life, finish these sentences, giving as many answers

for each as you can think of:

• I am:



• People are:

• The world is:

33. Do the same for any other life areas you may be having trouble with.

These might include:

• Money is:



• Relationships are:

• Good health is:

• Success is:

• Life is:



Additional Practice:

Over the next two weeks, prior to beginning Lesson 2, continue to

add answers to each of these lists. Carry a few 3 x 5 note cards with

you and jot down any answers that pop into your mind as you go

about your day. The purpose is to become consciously aware of what

you believe in these important areas.

34. Look at each of these important areas of your life, and decide what

beliefs are generating the results you’re getting in each area.

• Self Esteem and Self-worth

Results I’m getting in this area:

Beliefs I have that would lead to such results:

• Personal Abilities



• Competence





• Career and Work



• Your Ability to Create What You Want in the World



• Romantic Relationships



• Family Relationships



• Friends and Social Abilities



• Authority Figures





• Money and Prosperity



• Health (Physical and Mental)



35. Notice how your beliefs have caused you to attract or be attracted to

certain people or situations in your life.

• Belief:

How it has caused me to attract or be attracted to certain

people or situations:

• Belief:





• Belief:



• Belief:



• Belief:





36. How would other, more resourceful beliefs cause me to attract or be

attracted to different people or situations that would help me create

what I want?

• New Belief:

How it would cause me to attract or be attracted to people or

situations that would help me create what I want:

• New Belief:



• New Belief:





• New Belief:



• New Belief:



37. How have my beliefs caused me to distort what I saw or experienced

in order to confirm to myself that what I believed was true?

• Belief:

Distortion:



• Belief:

Distortion:

• Belief:

Distortion:

• Belief:

Distortion:

• Belief:

Distortion:



• Belief:

Distortion:

• Belief:

Distortion:

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