What are pearls in your mind?  Well, that’s the way I think of what old school psychologists call a gestalt.

We’ve all heard of Gestalt. It’s a form of psychology that has been prevalent in our history for decades.  Gestalt also offers a vivid way to describe how we store and manage our expectations that control our experiences.

First, let’s start with the definition of Gestalt. A structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts.

That’s exactly how our mindware forms.

• A program is created by an experience.
• Then another experience validates that program and creates a new associated program.
• Over time, multiple programs combine as an integrated unit to become a powerful belief, attitude, value or pre-defined decision.
• Before we know it, that specific Gestalt structure of mindware guides our thinking or behaviors around whatever circumstances or situation it involves.
• It it’s a conscious Gestalt, like learning math, we create a new skill or conscious behavior. If it’s unconscious –  our thoughts or behaviors are on automatic pilot.

Gestalt, Pearls and Your Mindware

When you think of the Gestalt of your mindware, the best image is a string of pearls. Actually, thousands upon thousands of strings of pearls. Each string is devoted to your mindware about specific events or situations in your life.

For example, you have Gestalt (s), or string(s) of pearls that create your belief about your skill at music, your response to a certain situation, your triggered behavior when someone yells at you, your decisions about what your business can and can’t do.  Everything you think and do is associated with these strings of pearls, the mindware that controls our behaviors and decisions.

Here’s how the pearls of our mind work:

• Each string of pearls begins with a single pearl. The first mindware program that is created in response to a situation or stated truth. Most of our initial pearls are formed in childhood, when we do not have a critical faculty to determine whether an experience or statement is true or false. Everything we experience and hear, see or feel is taken as true and we create a mindware program to reflect these inputs.

• That initial pearl of mindware begins to filter our data stream, selecting a reality that reaffirms that mindware pearl as truth.

• As we hear, see, feel or experience other situations that reflect that initial pearl, we create more pearls of mindware and associate them with the initial pearl.

• With each new experience that matches our initial and follow on pearls, we create another mindware program and add it to the string. The more programs we add to the string, the more influential the mindware program becomes.

• Over time, that initial pearl becomes a powerful Gestalt of mindware  driving our thinking and behaviors.  If it’s conscious we recognize it. If it’s unconscious, we don’t even know it’s happening.

Here’s an example in visual form.

The Power to Change our Minds

People ask me all the time how they can change their mindware, especially the unconscious mindware that we aren’t even aware is running in the background of our lives.

The first step is to find the behavior or thought patterns that are the result of the mindware. This isn’t as simple as we’ve been taught.  Just because we are adults does not mean we can easily recognize the pearls in our minds. In fact, we usually recognize what we want to see, hear or feel – not necessarily the reality of our Gestalt. That’s why it’s important to have an objective party involved in identifying the pearls that are driving our minds.

Once we discover the mindware, which is usually represented as a core decision, belief or emotion (I can’t get ahead or Im afraid of being poor), then we can release it. How?  It takes a combination of powerful techniques provided by quantum theory, quantum biology, hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistics and energetic practices to shift our minds.  That’s part of the work I do nearly every day with my clients – literally lifting out the pearls that form limiting beliefs, decisions and emotions.  It’s a small but oh-so-powerful part of my work with executives and corporations as well.

Once the string of pearls associated with a specific piece of mindware is released, that limiting process or emotion is gone. We no longer filter our data in the same way and our reality changes. As my clients say again and again, “How could I have ever believed, thought or felt that way? It makes no sense to me now!”   

Changing our mindware is just one of the amazing gifts of neuroscience.  I’m blessed and honored to share it with folks from every walk of life, as part of my business and my non-profit Unstoppable U.

Imagine  – what could you do if you knew you were limitless?  Welcome – to the power of your mind!