Mind-lines: Lines For Changing Minds

This Fifth Edition is an improvement over the Second Edition. The misspellings, word usage errors, and disorganized composition structure have been somewhat reduced and new practical information added. It's still a shame, though, that two people who supposedly have doctoral degrees are so challenged by writing. It's like what you would expect from a junior high student for whom English is a distant second language. How it's even possible to earn a doctoral degree with such weak language skills is surprising. I took off a star for that.

This book will show you how to mind map your beliefs from external events/circumstances all they way up through the linked and associated internal states. So what? Your beliefs manifest themselves in your attitudes, personality and behavior thereby affecting your world. Some beliefs can be empowering and some limiting. With the information in this book you can tune up your beliefs. Belief doesn't have to be sacred. Beliefs can be an expedient. You can be a passive victim of your beliefs or intentionally construct them. Belief is upgradeable and replaceable.

The subtitle is "Lines for Changing Minds". I see the value in someone changing their own mind, but I feel that persuasion is overrated. I prefer being able to identify someone's natural tendencies. Knowing in advance what to expect from someone is more valuable to me. This book will also help you with that. Don't try to change what people want, just give them what they want. That way, you only have to work half a day.

This book is a piece of art. I was recommended this book by a known changeworker, who's name will remain unknown. This book teaches you how flexible reality really is and shows you a practical way of actually changing your reality and others for the better. You can learn to Break toxic things you say to yourself and transform it to something good or simply stay relaxed when someone else seems to talk down to you, because you'll know that you can turn it around on him..but with this technology, you won't have to! It opens up a possibility to feel good and have control over the 'frame' which governs all communication and this and much more is covered in this book. A must have if you want to be a better person and feel better overall!

Powerful methods of using frames to make more
sense of what we are 'really'meaning by setting
guidlines for clarification and paraphrasing.
From chapter one the book challenged my method
of communication but provided guidelines on how
to become more articulate and encourage meaningful
interaction with others.
The methodologies given present more opportunity
to understand consciousness and as a consqeunce
know where we are at. A book to read and re-read.

I agree with many of the other reviewers that the information in this book is some of the best on the topic. General overviews of material as well as specific details and examples allow for enhanced understanding and easy application to your own life. My biggest concern about the book is the dozens of misspellings and grammatical errors. These make the book very distracting to read and are simple problems that someone in high school should be able to easily identify and fix. For as much thought and effort went into the book to make it easy to understand and interesting to read, it is partially ruined by juvenile copy mistakes. Sadly, this is not even the first edition of the book.

I have come away from this book with a profoundly different perspective on life. We are all meaning making machines. Most of us are not aware of all the meanings that we are creating and this book gets into the nitty-gritty of it with great detail. I found the author's formula of a Meaning; "External Behavior = Internal State" or "External Behavior causes Internal State" to be utterly mind blowing. For those reading who have no idea what this is, here is an example. We see or hear something (this is the External Behavior) and we make that external behavior equal or lead to some idea or feeling (the Internal State). "Your being late makes me sick" is a meaning where "Your being late" is External Behavior and " makes me sick" is Internal State. The premise of this book is that when we create meanings for ourselves, they create the frame of reference for how we see the world. Those who experience a lot of pain growing up create meanings (or frames) that have them see the world as a scary place even if there is no danger in the moment, while those who experience mostly joy growing up create meanings (or frames) that have them see the world as a safe place. How we frame the external events creates our experience of those events. This book is about examining the meanings you have created (your frames) and re-working the ones that do not serve you. This can be a lot of work as I found myself often having to re-read pages over and over to see where it applies in my life and how I can use this. But doing the work provides a BIG payoff of feeling lighter and more in control of your experience and the experience of others.