AC111 Underlying Automatic Commitments

Facilitator: Angela Bird & Sherry Read
2009/2/16, 23 & 3/2

What do you think about "Underlying Automatic Commitments (UAC)" might be? We are not conscious about it. They are like default programs in our brain computer. We do not only have one UAC.
- The judgment we hold for ourselves to things around us, we label things or ourselves when we are growing up.
- When we were children, we judge things to understand who we are?
- Women look for evidence to support what we think, right or wrong.

What are Underlying Automatic Commitments? When do you notice them before they show you?
- There are layers of beliefs and commitments
- UAC could motive and not motive a person
- Are these beliefs are neutral?
- Sometimes we are too comfortable with it and do not feel that is disempowering us.

How could someone to change UAC? How to do you help them to change?
- Make it unconscious to conscious to be aware of it and look at the limits it brings to you and think about how to change it. (Meditation)
- First step is to be ware of what it is.
- Why can’t you change it or modify / shift it? (expand or narrow the belief) Make the UAC better suit you in a good way, rather say it is wrong.
- Focus on what you want to change to, link positive motions of new things, take that wire loosed a little bit and make it link to your value.
- The shifting honors the original beliefs. Modify it in a new way.
- Because changing is sometimes an uncomfortable situation.
- Focus on what do you want to do? Values and goals.
- Emotions tight UAC to your believe and provide you comfortable feeling.

What we notice UAC of clients, then what do we do? Do I actually tell my clients that this is their UAC? Do I get them to get there, changing the behaviors (UAC)?
- At the beginning, I will not tell the client. I would think of the relationship with the client to decide whether I should tell the client. Their comfortable zone.
- Sometimes we are the mirror and we could tell client that I continue seeing you doing this, what is that about? I probably will not use the word of UAC. UAC is jargon, but it might not helpful to our client. (Tina agrees.)
- Tell clients in their words.
- We want them to see that there are reasons why they are not getting what they said they want.