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Sample Beliefs Chart
A Beliefs Chart is a timeline of changing beliefs set alongside descriptions of changes in relationships. The Beliefs Chart also includes a column reflecting other factors affecting the anxiety in relationship systems. As someone works up their Beliefs Chart, they can look at any changes in beliefs and changes in relationships happening at the same time and ask, "I wonder if those two changes (in beliefs and in relationships) had anything to do with each other?" Thus the Beliefs Chart becomes a tool in one's own effort to become more aware of and more objective about the interplay between these changes over a lifetime.
Reading a Beliefs Chart
The goal in reading a Beliefs Chart is to get an idea of which of one's beliefs are more apt to be solid self, and which are more apt to be pseudo-self. The basic rules in reading a Beliefs Chart are rather simple: Changes in beliefs are more likely to include solid self if those changes are not accompanied by abrupt and lasting shifts in important relationships. On the other hand, changes in beliefs are more likely to include pseudo-self if those changes are accompanied by abrupt and lasting shifts in important relationships. Rather than describing a change in beliefs as "causing" a shift in relationships, I think that changes in pseudo-self beliefs are better described as expressing and supporting the shifts in important relationships which are seen to have happened at the same time. |
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Copyright © 2008 Bob Williamson
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