The other day when I was working with my client I encountered a moment where the intensity of the conversation really ramped up. It was when I started to use some ideas I learned from watching Byron Katie.
I asked my client to take a hurtful idea about herself and then claim the opposite to be true and then see if the mind can find any evidence of that. For example if a person has a problem about not having any money I would ask them to say the opposite and say “I have lots of money” or “I get much more than I give” etc.
It is a really interesting technique because it forces the person to consider themselves in an opposite situation. The result was that my client felt very challenged and we got the sense that this was hitting on something important.
I think it is interesting to see how the mind works with imagination.
If we give the mind an idea and ask it to find evidence for it it will indeed find it. So, for example if I say, “I have lots of money” and then remember that I bought a car last year or I paid off my credit car etc, we can build up the belief that was previously denied by our mind because we just were holding onto the idea of being poor. But, until we give our mind the evidence of something being true it wont buy into that idea.