Lecture: Mastering Your Mind

Richard Anton Diaz

The Empowerment Dialogues are designed to assist us in questioning those self-defeating beliefs we have acquired in an environment that is safe, accepting, and non-judgmental. A dialogue process teaches us a method of gently examining the foundation of our beliefs so that we can:
1.Fully recognize that we are the one and only author of our beliefs.
2.Have a choice to keep, change, or discard those beliefs.
3.Uncover the hidden reasons we have held onto those beliefs that have caused us discomfort or pain.
We all have the power to change our beliefs. Even though we have many beliefs we have never questioned, that seem automatic, at one time or another we hired them into our thinking system.
Because the consequences of believing self-defeating beliefs can be so life-altering, it behooves us to harness our power to reconsider the validity of assumptions we have made. By questioning the validity of dis-empowering beliefs and reassessing them, we give ourselves an opportunity to change those corresponding unhappy emotions and behaviors as well.