.
Perplexed? Confused? Need to figure out what’s
going on in your life?
How To Understand Any Problem or Situation
To more fully understand a situation, get out paper
and pen and follow these seven steps:
1. State the facts. JUST the facts. Write them down
on a piece of paper. Be sure to not embellish what
you write. State ONLY objective facts.
“Here’s what actually happened…”
2. Interpret those facts. NOW add your own
embellishment. Now think about how the facts
affect you. Add your present understanding to the
facts you wrote down.
“Here’s what I think about it…”
3. Discern those facts. Now look for the hidden
meaning behind the facts and behind your
interpretation of the facts. What’s hidden? What’s
the contrast?
“Oh, yeah, now I see a little deeper…”
4. Make conclusions from everything you’ve
worked on up till now. Form assessments and
positive judgments from the facts and the
interpretation and the discernment of those facts.
Positive judgments hold things together and make
them solid.
“So here’s what I think all this means…”
5. Inference of the conclusion. What do you infer
from what you’ve concluded? Add the thoughts
and feelings that are not represented by the facts.
In other words, what do you think, and how do you
feel, about your conclusions?
“Well, from my conclusions, I now add these thoughts
and feelings…”
6. Appreciation of the facts. Now look to sense the
beauty, the wonder, the sacred, the love – in the
conclusions you’ve drawn from what you’re trying
to understand.
“Okay, now I’m looking at this from a higher perspective,
and I see the big picture and how everything fits
together in a wonderful sort of way…”
7. Finding the value. Finally, look back to your
conclusions, your inference, your appreciation – to
find the meaning and significance; the value; in this
situation. What have you learned? What have you
gained?
“Oh my gosh! So THIS is why I created this situation,
to learn THESE lessons! Wow, that’s valuable…”
I realize that sounds like a lot – but once you get
started, and once you’ve done it a time or two, you’ll
see how easily you can move from one step to the
next.
Plus, you really will understand it a lot better!
Just go through and write each step down. Spend a little
time on each one. Generally, I’ll tend to write the most
on the first step, and maybe a paragraph or a few sentences
for some of the other ones.
Just write as much as seems appropriate for each step.
(I learned these seven steps from Lazaris.)
Mark
Mark Ivar Myhre
The Emotional Healing Wizard
creative-visualization.com
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Hi Mark
your work including how to understand is very helpful. You make all topics so easy to approach and understand. This gives me the encouragement and confidence to work with my emotions, so I can let go and enjoy me being in my life right now.
I truely appreaciate and I am thankful of your endeavors.
Best Regards
Amanda Evans
Sydney, Australia.
Hey Mark…. I’m having problems and always had problems with this…having people to come to my house….I never invite people to my house…I want to but something wont let me ….inside of me…right now I would like to invite a Pastor over but or no some thing wont let me…even to go out to dinner with the Pastor and family is diffcult…if soimebody would invite me that would be okay but for me to invite peole to come over or go out to eat is very hard to do for me…. I do have rejection problems but what program should i use to hel;p me thrpugh my diffculties like this… My whole life has been this way. I would love to have friend but this stops me everytime…
Sincerely Jane
Hi Jane,
as far as programs go, the only one I even know anything about is my own -
How To Reduce Fear, Escape Anxiety, & End Panic.
You say you’ve been this way your whole life, well I would guess that you
weren’t born this way – so it most likely was an event – or more likely – a
series of events early in life that crippled your confidence and led you to the way you are today.
I would say that for best results you would want private, personal consultations
to root out and eliminate those hidden causes which probably started in
early childhood.
It’s not impossible. I did it myself. I had pretty intense fears not too long ago.
And I started feeling them at an early age. I too had very few friends.
It was a crippling fear. But I was able to completely end it.
I’m working on a solution right now that may help, and I’ll be sending out a message to everyone on my mailing lists tomorrow.
all the best,
Mark