I'm more interested in how useful the worldview is ... or is not. Is your worldview as handy as discovering your spare is flat like a gluten-free coconut flour
In FasterEFT training we learn about two world views: the lower model and the upper model.
We are born into this world wholly and completely defenseless. From day zero through seven years old we are learning machines, downloading all our experiences to the great storage device that is our unconscious mind. Experiences impact us. We depend on others for survival, food, shelter. We look to our caretakers for everything. The end result is a belief system, a worldview. A worldview that the power is outside of us: they are doing it to me, power is outside of me.
After our sponge like, immature child-like brains form that worldview it seems to become stuck in cement. A least action pathway.
It would be wonderful if there was a ceremonious graduation and you entered the upper model worldview amidst pomp and circumstance, getting your own shiny key to a whole new worldview as you threw your cap into the air. The sad truth is that most people never leave the lower model of the world.
Blame. Helplessness. Hopelessness. Powerlessness. Frustration. Anger. Resentment.
Emotions of the lower model of the world.
Fortunately there is another option, an "I am the boss of me" worldview. The upper model.
The upper model embraces the knowledge that we have how-to-programs inside of us that are based on our stored pictures, sounds, feelings, and emotions. Accepting this we can choose our response. The power to do so is inside of us. No one can make us feel something without our participation. It really is an inside job. We have to think the thoughts (no one is listening to me) and feel the feelings (rejection, alone, sad ...).
Two people can share an experience and have reactions that are as different as a mint green Vespa is from a shiny red Toyota. For instance, say Fran and Jane are at work. In comes Stan, the boss, who is in a mood. You know those kinds of moods. We've all been there. Stan says some things and leaves.
Fran remarks, "Wow Stan having a bad day or what"? and somersaults back into spreadsheets and numbers. Unfazed.
Jane on the other hand turns red (that nuclear meltdown special kind of red), gets angry, says "How dare Stan say that?" and goes off to eat some donuts to calm down. Then she replays it in her head a few bazillion times and blames Stan for making her feel bad. Stan isn't in the room anymore which means Stan isn't making Jane feel anything. Jane's internal representations of Stan are creating her feelings.
Two responses. Two different worldviews. Upper model. Lower model.
Knowing about these two options isn't a guarantee you'll always choose the upper model (you knew it wouldn't be that easy right?).
Personally I strive to operate from the upper model of the world, now that I know it exists. But there are times, oh there are times ... I catch myself, literally, both feet slogging through mud, smack-dab in the middle of the lower model. I witness the thought "He/she/it made me feel ..." and at that point I have to step back and take the reigns before that riderless horse gallops any further off the reservation.
That's the time to use my FasterEFT skills to change what I'm saying/seeing/doing inside of me. It's simple, not easy, and oh so worth it.
Free. Choice. Happy. Calm. Peaceful. Gratitude.
Emotions of the upper model of the world.
When you let yourself choose, you step into the upper model of the world. The food is way better there.
