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Morty Lefkoe is president and founder of The Lefkoer Institute. He is the creator of a series of psychological processesrn(The Lefkoe Method) that result in profound personal and organizational change, quickly and permanently. He created a revolutionary way to deliver his method online that you can sample free by clicking Natural Confidence.
He has written a book about the Lefkoe Belief Process (LBP), Re-create Your Life: Transforming Yourself and Your World (Andrews McMeel, 1997; trade paper version, DMI Publishing, 2003). The book explains how the LBP works, how it is significantly different from most forms of psychotherapy, its spiritual implications, and how its principles can be applied to parenting, health, business, and social change. It also includes several case histories involving clients who have successfully dealt with dysfunctional patterns. Morty has also written an essay that details research on the mind-body connection inrnsports and his work with athletes. You can get a pdf of the article byrnclicking here.
Morty has written over 100 articles and columns for many publications, including the Wall Street journal and the New York Times. He has appeared on over 100 radio and TV shows, including Today, Leeza, ABC World News Today, and Fox Cable News. His work has been written about extensively in the New York Times and a number of other publications.
A member of the American Counseling Association, Morty has written articles describing the Lefkoe Method for The Califo ia Therapist (Sept-Oct 2001, Vol. 13, Issue 5), The Group Therapist Perspective (Oct-Nov. 2001), and the Califo ia Psychologist (December, 2001).
He has spoken before such groups as the Americanr Management Association, Vistage (formerly TEC), American Psychotherapyr Association, American College of Counselors, American Association ofr Integrative medicine, National Wellness Coalition, Managed Health Carer Congress (NE), Association for Fitness in Business, and Americanr Psychological Association-National Institute for Occupational Safetyrn& Health. Morty also has presented The Lefkoe Method to many other groups of psychotherapists, including in-service training at many mental health facilities. You can see video of one of his talks byrnclicking here.
He has conducted well over 200 seminars for groups of Chief Executive Officers on "A Proven Method for Successfullyr Instituting Change" and "Limiting Beliefs, Business and Personal: How to Identify and Eliminate Them."
Morty received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he also attended the Graduate School of Business.
He resides in Fairfax, CA with his wife, Shelly and one of his daughters. The other is attending college at ther University of Hawaii.
Morty is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, an organization of transformational leaders started by Jack Canfield.
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***Eliminating Beliefs in Organizations
You probably already know that The Lefkoe Method can improve your personal life. Did you also know that it can be used to improve your work environment?
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***What does love depend on?
I was recently in Puerto Rico at the semi-annual meeting of the Transformational Leadership Council. This is a group of transformational leaders, formed by Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator Jack Canfield, and includes John Gray, Paul Sheely, Joe Vitale, Steve Pavlina, and Stewart Emery. We have a lot of workshops where we learn from each other, but mainly we just enjoy each other’s company. Every six months when I arrive I feel as if I am coming home, because I am with people who have a similar vision, passion, and commitment in life: to improve the quality of people’s lives.
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***How the Lefkoe Belief Process Works, Part 1
Many people who have eliminated at least one belief using the Lefkoe Belief Process have asked me for more details on how it actually works. In order to provide you with a relatively complete answer (it would take me several days to teach you how to use it effectively), I’ve written a two-part article. The Lefkoe Belief Process (LBP) begins with the client describing an undesirable pattern of behavior or feelings that he has been trying unsuccessfully to change. Feeling patterns could include fear, hostility, shyness, anxiety, depression, or worrying about what people think of you.
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***What is My Job As A Parent?
“How many times do I have to tell you?” “What am I ever going to do with you?” “What’s wrong with you?” “Don’t you ever listen?” Imagine yourself to be a young child listening to your parents repeatedly ask you questions like these. … If you stop for a few moments, listen to these words inside your head, and experience what it feels like, you will have a clear picture of what far too many children feel every day.
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***How the Lefkoe Belief Process Works, Part 2
THIS IS PART 2 OF “HOW THE LEFKOE BELIEF PROCESS WORKS. Read Part 1 first. For many years we thought that this was all that was necessary to eliminate a belief. A few years ago we realized that it was enough for “visual” people, people who know reality by seeing it, who are about 80% of the population. But a significant number of people are emotionally kinesthetic: they know reality through their feelings.
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***Why Self-Help Often Doesn’t Work … And What Does
How many times have you attended a personal growth workshop, or listened to a self-help audio course, or viewed a set of DVDs designed to change your life? Given the type of people who usually read my blog, probably most of you. And how many times did you get a high when you completed the program … that dissipated shortly, leaving you almost where you were before you started? Based on what many of you have told me, an awful lot of you. Why don’t these courses that usually offer such valuable information produce lasting change?
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***An Effective Health Care System Requires New Beliefs
Once you understand the power that beliefs have to shape behavior and limit possibilities, you can begin to see why so many of society’s problems seem insoluble. Societal beliefs prevent change in society just like individual beliefs prevent change in individuals. For example, if you have the belief Relationships don‘t work, your options are limited. You can avoid relationships altogether, not work very hard to make them work because you already know they won’t, not leave a bad relationship because you’ll never find a better one, and so on.
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***How Relationships Are Affected By Beliefs
“Why don’t you have a belief-elimination package that will help me get or improve my relationship?” we are asked regularly. Most of the eight packages we offer will significantly improve your sense of your self-confidence, which obviously will help you improve your relationships, but none of the existing packages deals specifically with relationships. We aren’t holding out on you. If we could create such a package, we would.
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***Why Should I Eliminate A Belief?
Every once in a while after someone asks me what I do and I reply, “I help people eliminate beliefs,” I am asked: “Why would I want to eliminate a belief?” There are at least good four answers to that question, which I will describe here. If you would like to improve the quality of your life and increase your range of possibilities, I think you will find this discussion very useful. 1. Virtually all the problems you have in life, behavioral or emotional, stem mainly from your beliefs (and sometimes some conditioning).
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***Can We Manifest Specific Things in Reality? “Occurring” Part 3
During the past couple of weeks several readers have asked me: “What’s so new about this ‘occurring’ distinction? Haven’t you been saying for years that our beliefs and conditionings determine our behavior and emotions?” Yes and no. I have said that our specific behavior and emotions are caused primarily by our beliefs and conditionings. But how things occur for us is a different phenomenon.
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***How Things Occur For Us
I generally know when I’m about to have a breakthrough, when there is a new process or way of understanding something that is on the verge of taking shape. I have glimpses of ideas and I have a sense of connections that I can’t quite put my finger on. But I know if I stay with it, something new and useful ultimately will take shape. That’s where I am now. I think I’m about to come up with something very useful, and I’m not sure what it is yet.
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***The Conversation Continues: How Things Occur For Us, Part 2
We always create a meaning for the events we confront; that meaning then becomes how the events occur for us. We then think how events occur for us is an accurate description of reality. It is not. It is merely the meaning we have placed over reality. It is the filter through which we view reality and it determines how we actually experience reality. For example, imagine you get fired from a job. That event either can occur for you as a terrible catastrophe or as an amazing opportunity.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Morty Lefkoe
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the otuer aspects of their lives.
--William James
Whether you say you can or you can't--you're always right!
--Anonymous
No great improvements in the lost of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in their mode of thought.
--John Stuart Mill
It isn't until it is, and then it must be.
--Morty Lefkoe
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