Well, by the time he was in his late thirties, he decided that he was not
going to die prematurely of a heart attack like his uncle. Actually he didn't
make this decision until after he passed the age in which his uncle had
died. (His uncle's age at the time of his death was the age at which my
client thought that he would also die.) When it didn't happen, he gave up
the whole notion. Deciding to build up his stamina, he asked me for some
tips on how to become a runner, since he knew I had been running for
years. In a sense running was a new skill for him and definitely a new way
of expressing himself. So we went running together. Of course, what he
found out was that he couldn't run. Not that he couldn't take the steps in
the fashion of a runner; it is just that every time his heart rate started to
climb, he would stop dead in his tracks, even though his intent was to keep
on going. His beliefs about dying from exercise still had a great deal of
power in his mental environment. This belief acted as resistance, working
against his conscious intent to run. Consciously, he was giving his body
instructions to keep on going; his conflicting belief, however, was saying.
"No way, pal; you're staying right here until your heart rate goes down." In
this situation it was very easy to determine what component of his mental
system had more power over his behavior.
going to die prematurely of a heart attack like his uncle. Actually he didn't
make this decision until after he passed the age in which his uncle had
died. (His uncle's age at the time of his death was the age at which my
client thought that he would also die.) When it didn't happen, he gave up
the whole notion. Deciding to build up his stamina, he asked me for some
tips on how to become a runner, since he knew I had been running for
years. In a sense running was a new skill for him and definitely a new way
of expressing himself. So we went running together. Of course, what he
found out was that he couldn't run. Not that he couldn't take the steps in
the fashion of a runner; it is just that every time his heart rate started to
climb, he would stop dead in his tracks, even though his intent was to keep
on going. His beliefs about dying from exercise still had a great deal of
power in his mental environment. This belief acted as resistance, working
against his conscious intent to run. Consciously, he was giving his body
instructions to keep on going; his conflicting belief, however, was saying.
"No way, pal; you're staying right here until your heart rate goes down." In
this situation it was very easy to determine what component of his mental
system had more power over his behavior.


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