Aaron Doughty teaches how to rewire limiting beliefs by weakening old memories and strengthening new ones. Take a painful memory like a childhood public-speaking failure, make it black-and-white or cartoon-like to reduce its power. Then amplify a visualization of your preferred self with vivid sights, louder sounds, and stronger feelings to embody the new identity.
Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I want to show you how to make visualization a much more powerful process, and then from that point, really be able to embody and change the beliefs that you have about who you are. Now I've talked to before in videos on the idea of visualization, on the idea of beliefs, and in this video I want to kind of cross emerge those into understanding how we can rewire ourselves for thinking about ourselves in a new way and for really changing the reference experiences that we've had in the past where those beliefs began. Now the idea behind this, if you've watched my video, you heard me say this, is that our beliefs are creating our reality and that our beliefs come from majority reference experiences, which were memories of things that happened either consciously or subconsciously at a certain point in our life. And when these things happened, we simply decided that this is who we are, or this is the way the world works. Now, to merge visualization with beliefs, what we're going to be looking at is finding those reference experiences and then deciding and using certain certain techniques in order to change the way that we relate to those experiences and those memories. So you may— let's just use an example. When we were young, if we got in front of class, for example, maybe in kindergarten or first, second, third grade, and we had to give a presentation and we completely flunked and couldn't remember what we were supposed to say, that could have left an imprint for us to then not say anything, or to not feel comfortable in front of other people, or just maybe to become more introverted versus before maybe being more free. Now, the idea behind this is that once we simply ask ourselves the question, what would I have to believe is true to be having this kind of experience? And then we find that reference experience. Well, we can use visualization as as a tool to change what are called the submodalities. Now, the submodalities is the way that we remember that situation. So one way we could remember that situation is maybe when we picture it and we remember it, we see it visually. We see ourselves in front of the classroom looking out at other people. We remember what it was like when we were thinking inside of our head and what we were thinking. Now, that is the submodality of the visual that we saw. Now, to use visualization to change the way that we relate to that memory, what we could then begin to do is to change the actual memory. So one thing we could do is simply start to see it as funny, start to really loosen up and not take it so serious. Another thing we could do is instead of seeing it so bright in such a visual picture, what we can start to do is start to visualize it in black and white. It immediately begins to take away some of the realness to it. Now what you could do is you could turn it into a cartoon and you could start to see it in funny type way. Another thing you could do is you can remember what you were hearing and you could start to think about it like it's becoming more and more distant, like harder to hear. You see, all of these things are what are called submodalities of our memories, and when we change those submodalities, what we then begin to do is change the way we relate to it. So some of the submodalities include visually, what we see, hearing, so what we hear, the sounds, and the type of things we remember people saying. Then we have the more of the kinesthetics of it. So like maybe what we felt, maybe the temperature that was there when we were in front of the classroom, or the kind of just general feeling that we had inside our body. Taste, maybe what we were eating for lunch that day, and we kind of, anytime we eat certain things, maybe it reminds us of that subconsciously. The idea is to simply tap into the visualization of it, tap into the memory and then start to modify the way that we relate to it. But one important part of this that I want to talk about is also just accepting that it happened, not trying to bury this down and change the memory like we don't want it to be there. Be grateful that it is there because having that memory allows you to come to the point of knowing that your beliefs are creating your reality and that now you are really getting to the core of what that is and you're allowing yourself to simply let it go. So know that you can use visualization to change the submodalities for the way you remember these things that created the belief, then what you can begin to do is amplify the submodalities of who you prefer to be. Now I've talked about this in videos of acting as if, which is where we imagined the best version of ourselves and how we'd be acting, what kind of beliefs that we would have, what kind of actions we would take, what kind of body language that we have, and what we can then begin to do is imagine ourselves with the new belief that we would prefer. So if before it was being afraid of speaking in front of people, imagine yourself maybe, you know, giving presentations to just people at work or to groups of friends and telling a story. And imagine yourself telling a funny story, people responding in a positive way. Then what you can begin to do in that visualization is amplify certain submodalities. Begin to bring in not just the visualness of it, of visualization, but what you would be hearing. Make that louder and louder, and then you're amplifying that part of it. What you could then do is begin to imagine what you would feel like, the type of emotion inside of your body. Then what you could do is start to imagine how it would feel in that body language, how you would be presenting yourself. As you start to look at these different dimensions of those submodalities, meaning instead of just visual, it's visual, it's hearing, it's tasting, it's being able to feel into it. You then are amplifying that as to a part of who you are. And I think that it's one thing that's very underestimated and underused is the power of being able to amplify or disassociate those prior memories. So you can use this in a number of different ways, and I'll do more videos on this in the future, but simply realize that your beliefs are creating your reality. You can look at the prior memories that you find from that simple question of what would I have to believe is true in order to have this experience? Whatever memories come to the front, begin to make it black and white, make it more distant, begin to start to realize that it doesn't have so much power over you anymore. and then you simply let it go and that then you can act as if you can be who you prefer to be. And as you simply start from that point, begin to amplify the characteristics you want, you will start to embody more of that. So with that being said, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Feel free to like this video if you liked it, subscribe if you haven't already, and as always, I will see you guys on the next vid. Peace, much love. Namaste. All right. Bye.
