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THE 23 MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT PER-K™ THAT MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE, TOO

In preparing this information, to give you ALL you need to make the decision to opt FOR PER-K™, I worked with the originator, Rob Williams, to compile a list of the most frequently asked questions - and we believe these would be the questions you’d ask, too. So, here are several of the most commonly asked questions:

1. Q: What Is PER-K?

A: Also known as Performance Kinesiology, PER-K is a unique and direct way to identify and change subconscious beliefs that perpetuate old habits and behaviors that you want to change. PER-K is a simple process that enables you to communicate directly with the subconscious mind in order to change beliefs and attitudes that limit or sabotage peak performance. Most of us know, and behavioral scientists confirm, that our behaviors are a direct reflection of our beliefs, perceptions and values, generated from past experiences. PER-K is a user-friendly way to rewrite the software of your mind in order to change the printout of your performance! It helps you change old ways of thinking and behaving that limit you in your personal and professional life.

PER-K helps you transform limitations into possibilities! PER-K is a safe, non-invasive, and effective way to dissolve resistance to change at the subconscious level. As Henry Ford once said, "If you believe you can or if you believe you can't you're right!" This is especially true when the beliefs are subconscious. Scientific research and evidence supports that our behaviors are a direct reflection of our beliefs, perceptions and values, generated from past experiences. However, the difficulty seems to be in knowing how to change old negative beliefs, perceptions and values into new positive ones.

“You Create Your Own Reality”

Your reality is created by your “beliefs”. These beliefs, usually subconscious, are often the result of lifelong “programming,” and represent a powerful influence on human behavior. It is from our beliefs that we form attitudes about the world and ourselves, and from these attitudes we develop behaviors. Usually, it is self-defeating behaviors we wish to change. Often the most effective way to change a behavior is to change the belief or beliefs that support it. PER-K provides a variety of ways to quickly identify and transform beliefs that “sabotage” you into beliefs that “support” you. When you change your beliefs, you change your reality.

2. Q: How Did PER-K Come To Be?

A: PER-K was developed in 1988 by Robert M. Williams, M.A. It was a response to the frustration that came with the realization that typical training programs, which rely heavily on "insight" and "motivation," seldom create real and lasting results. After the initial pump and excitement, it's back to business as usual. Or, to put it another way; "After all is said and done, more is usually said than done!"

Rob has spent years developing and improving PER-K. It is the "missing link" to exceptional performance. He discovered that corporations are more in need of better "mind management" than "time management" in order to achieve maximum effectiveness and profitability. Rob's background in business and psychotherapy enabled him to create a bottom line, results-oriented approach to his training programs while at the same time respecting the dignity of the individual. PER-K isn't designed to replace your "skills-based" training programs, it's designed to make your "skills based" training programs work better. Programs don't work until people work! PER-K helps you transform limitations into possibilities.

3. Q: How Does PER-K Work?

A: PER-K is about self-discovery, change and success. It is a unique process evolving from years of split-brain research and hundreds of sessions with individuals and groups. PER-K creates a receptive state of mind that dramatically reduces resistance to change at the subconscious level. The subconscious mind can be accessed in a way similar to a personal computer. PER-K works like a "mental keyboard"-- a user-friendly method of communicating with the subconscious mind that is simple, direct and verifiable. It enables the individual to align subconscious beliefs with current goals and objectives and frees them from the limitations of past programming.

Have you ever wondered why the majority of skills based training and motivational programs produced limited or temporary changes - and why after the initial pump and excitement you’re back to business as usual?

Contemporary business philosophers such as Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, W. Edwards Deming and others have suggested that it is insufficient to make behavioral changes based on insight and motivation alone. To have a new behavior mobilized and then sustained over time, we must access and transform the underlying beliefs and attitudes that drive the behavior.

4. Q: What Is A PER-K Balance?

A: A PER-K Balance is a technique designed to create a balanced communication with both hemispheres of the brain. This "whole-brain" state is ideal for reprogramming the subconscious mind with new, positive beliefs and attitudes that support goals rather than sabotage them! PER-K Balances also reduce unwanted stress and help you to access your “full response potential” in meeting life’s challenges.

Using a PER-K Balance to change subconscious beliefs that may be sabotaging well-intentioned actions is similar to reprogramming a personal computer. PER-K techniques are like a "mental keyboard" to your own brain. You increase the "cross talk" between the two brain hemispheres, thereby achieving a more "whole-brained" state, which is ideal for changing subconscious beliefs. In addition, when right and left hemispheres are in simultaneous communication, the qualities and characteristics of both hemispheres are available to maximize your full response potential.

Steven Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People says “although people use both sides of the brain, one side or the other generally tends to be dominant in each individual. Of course, the ideal would be to cultivate and develop the ability to have good crossover between both sides of the brain so that a person could first sense what the situation called for and then use the appropriate tool to deal with it.”

That is exactly what a PER-K™ balance does.

It is important to remember that balancing creates potential, you create results! For example, if you balance to be an Olympic athlete, you must still do the necessary training and physical conditioning to realize your goal. The balance will release any subconscious resistance you may have to achieving the goal, so that the effort you put forward in training will produce maximum results.

Another example might be balancing for a health-related issue. While balancing will help to reduce the stress and inner conflict that may be supporting the presence of the dis-ease in your body, it is still important to take all the appropriate physical steps to help the body heal itself i.e. medical treatment, diet, exercise, rest, etc.

PER-K Balances helps you to get your subconscious mind in alignment with your conscious goals and desires. With PER-K Balances, you can change old beliefs that sabotage you, into new positive ones that support you, quickly and easily.

5. Q: How Long Does It Take For A Balance To Work?

A: The results of a balance can be felt instantaneously or it can evolve over time (hours, days, weeks or longer). For example, if your goal is to find a new job, releasing the fear of changing jobs or being unemployed may be felt at the time of the balance, however acquiring the new job may take additional time.

6. Q: How Long Does A Balance Last?

A: Balances seem to last until they are no longer useful to the subconscious mind or until you decide to balance for a new goal. Life is an evolutionary process, so what you balance for at one point in your life may be inappropriate at another time. Without the use of PER-K life itself would remind you when it is time to change some aspect of your reality. Unfortunately, the reminder often takes the form of a trauma or other emotionally charged situation in order to get your attention. PER-K enables you to consciously direct key changes in your life without unnecessary pain or difficulty.

In the event that you find yourself re-creating behaviors or thoughts that you have previously balanced to release, it is useful to ask yourself, “What benefit do I gain from the old thoughts or behaviors?” When this question is considered openly and honestly, the result is usually very revealing. You may wish to do another balance which takes into account the “secondary gain” issues which resulted in the manifestation of the old ways.

Regardless of the goal of a balance you can always exercise “free will” in the implementation of the results.

7. Q: How Often Do I Have To Reinforce The Balance?

A: This question arises from the notion that the belief didn't really change and that the old belief is just waiting for you to let down your guard so it can come back and sabotage your happiness. Occasionally a balance will require some support activity to speed up the integration of the new belief, but it is very rare that someone will have to balance for the exact same belief twice.

8. Q: How Can PER-K Help My Organization?

A: Our subconscious beliefs establish the limits of what we can achieve. If you're spending "big bucks" on training programs and are disappointed with the ROI on your training dollars, then PER-K can help. Even when people know the right thing to do, they don't always do the right thing. However, when individuals are empowered with the effective tools to reach their full potential, they will eagerly do so. It is the frustration of self-sabotaging beliefs, driving self-defeating behaviors that trap people in a prison of mediocrity or failure. The truth is, there's really no such thing as organizational behavior, only individual behavior; every thing else flows out of that!

9. Q: How Can PER-K Help Me At Work?

A: You can reduce stress, improve sales performance, enhance your leadership ability, increase your job satisfaction and more. Rob Williams is also the originator of PER-K (Performance Kinesiology™), designed for the business environment.

10. Q: Who Would Benefit From PER-K Trainings?

A: Anyone wanting to improve their performance, but especially executives, sales professionals, customer service personnel and people working in a "team" environment.
Here are some other general categories of people and how they’ve used PER-K to their benefit:

1. SALES PROFESSIONALS who seek new levels of confidence and greater persuasive abilities...who need new methods for thriving in times of tougher competition...who are eager to sell in a no-resistance environment. PER-K can transform your entire experience of selling!

2. ENTREPRENEURS, BUSINESS OWNERS, BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS, CORPORATE EXECUTIVES, MANAGER, STAFF who are feeling the pressure of juggling multiple priorities......who could profit from better concentration, goal clarity, focus, creativity, decisive problem-solving, and organization.

3. SPEAKERS, AUTHORS, ARTISTS, ENTERTAINERS, MUSICIANS, ACTORS and other “creative people” who want to dramatically strengthen their creative powers and turn their ideas and talents into riches.

4. CORPORATE EXECUTIVES and other leaders who must influence, motivate, manage, solicit cooperation, and secure the confidence of others everyday.....who shoulder huge responsibility and need strategies for converting pressure and stress to energy and optimism.

5. HELPING PROFESSIONALS, MD/DC/DO/ND’S, NURSES, PASTORS, COUNSELORS, THERAPISTS, TEACHERS, COACHES, BODY & ENERGY WORKERS, CONSULTANTS who want exciting tools for enhancing others’ self-esteem, self-confidence, self-discipline, and performance both personally and professionally.

6. PROFESSIONAL & RECREATIONAL ATHLETES, TRAINERS, DANCERS, EXERCISE & SPORTS ENTHUSIASTS- who would love to lift their performance to a much higher level without reliance on gadgets, gimmicks, tricks....who have a particular nagging, reoccurring problem with their game they’d enjoy eliminating.

7. INDIVIDUALS WITH VERY SPECIFIC PERSONAL GOALS: i.e. DIET, addictions, relationships, phobias, finances or others striving for a very particular personal goal. The individual who is overweight, has tried diet after diet and been frustrated; the individual disappointed at the lack of communication in a personal relationship; the shy person who would like to be more assertive; the person with an undesirable habit to break.

11. Q: Can I use PER-K techniques to improve my personal life?

A: Yes! In fact Rob is also the originator of PSYCH-K (Psychological Kinesiology). PSYCH-K utilizes the same powerful techniques for change that PER-K does, but is designed for use in your personal life. Workshops, and a "use-at-home" video are available for family and friends who want to rid themselves of old habits and behaviors that are limiting their happiness and wellbeing.

Your subconscious beliefs establish the limits of what you can achieve. If your life feels like a car being driven with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake, chances are you have a conflict between your conscious goals and your subconscious beliefs. This kind of conflict shows up in relationships, job performance, self-esteem, athletics, weight loss, prosperity, even your physical health. If you are facing challenges in any of these areas, you should contact a Nikkea B. Devida, a Certified PSYCH-K and PER-K Instructor, for a schedule of workshops. Click here to go to Nikkea’s PSYCH-K Home Page and select Workshops to learn more about this amazing weekend experience.

12. Q: Why Is PER-K Different From Most Other Change Techniques?

A: PER-K is the missing communication link between the conscious and the subconscious mind. PER-K communicates directly with the subconscious mind, which is the storehouse of all past experiences, values and beliefs. According to Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist in Santa Cruz, CA, the conscious mind processes approximately 2000 bits of information per second. That sounds like a lot until you compare it with the subconscious mind, which processes approximately 4 BILLION bits of information per second. Therefore, over 99% of your power is in your subconscious mind. That’s also why conscious “goal-setting” and “willpower” often fail. Viewed another way, if you looked up into the night sky, one star out of the entire sky represents your conscious mind. All the rest that you see (and even all you don’t!) represents your subconscious mind. PER-K utilized whole-brain integration techniques to create a receptive state of the subconscious to internalize new beliefs.

13. Q. Why Is It Important To Choose A Technique That Deals Directly With Changing Beliefs At The Subconscious Level? Why Isn’t Conscious Goal-Setting And Positive Thinking Enough? How Do I Know If A Belief Got Changed?

A. As mentioned earlier, the subconscious mind is the storehouse for past experiences, attitudes, and beliefs. Even well intentioned, motivated and committed individuals often sabotage themselves because the subconscious mind harbors beliefs that are contrary to success. These limiting beliefs created from past experiences operate even while we have conscious goals to the contrary. As much as we might think positively and use conscious affirmations, those “old tapes” just keep running.

YOUR MIND WORKS A LOT LIKE YOUR CAR

Using a car analogy, having conscious goals and subconscious beliefs opposing eachother and not in harmony with eachother is like having your foot on the gas pedal and on the brake at the same time. You don’t move forward very easily, if at all...and at a great expenditure of energy, not to mention possible damage to your motor! Once you take your foot off the brakes (changing your sabotaging subconscious beliefs) you can move forward with your conscious goals much more easily and with much less effort.

PER-K works like a “mental keyboard” - a user-friendly method of communicating with the subconscious mind that is simple, direct, and verifiable. This method of communication enables us to identify the underlying, limiting beliefs and repattern them, so they align with the principles and philosophies that produce lasting successful behaviors, actions and results. It is directly verifiable in that your beliefs get pre-tested and post-tested with you present so you can see for yourself that a change took place. No more guess work, hoping that the change took place.

Using a car analogy again, your car has a gas gauge. The gas gauge is your cars’ internal meter that you can see that tells you when it’s full or when it’s empty. Your body also has a similar gauge and can be accessed through kinesiology. A negative belief will register as “empty”. After it has been changed using a Balance, it will register “full”. And the before and after is as clear to you as the gas gauge in your car registering empty and then full.

14. Q: Is PER-K The Same As NLP? Hypnosis? Other Forms Of Kinesiology? Energy Work? Etc.?

A: The short answer is "yes" and "no." PER-K is a unique blend of many healing modalities. Students of other healing approaches will see PER-K through their own "filters" and find similarities to what they know. The originator of PER-K has been certified and/or completed training in NLP, Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Touch For Health, Educational Kinesiology, Hawaiian Shamanism as well as various forms of "hands on" healing techniques. In addition to these trainings, he has read countless books on how to effect positive change both personally and professionally.

PER-K came into existence more as an act of spiritual surrender than an act of intellectual brilliance. The synthesis of these diverse approaches to change came about in a series of "intuitive leaps of consciousness," which occurred over a period of a few months in 1988-89.

15. Q: What Sets PER-K Apart from Other Change Modalities?

A: PER-K differs from other approaches to creating change.

• PER-K addresses the root cause of many challenges and unwanted patterns.
• PER-K is a "do with" rather than a "do to" approach.
• PER-K emphasizes strong permission protocols, so that every action is in the highest and best good of the client/recipient.
• PER-K easily integrates other modalities.

Root Cause. PER-K embraces the notion of cause-and-effect. Imagine a chain of events over time, where A causes B, which causes C, and so on, until today we have some presenting issue or symptom called Q. In our culture, we often treat Q as the problem, rather than merely a presenting symptom, circumstance, or condition, because we have no easy way to identify and change the "cause."

Further, even modalities that seek to discover the "cause" tend to think in terms of some prior event, something that happened to "cause" the present behavior pattern or symptom. However, such an "original event" is history. What remains in the present are the memory of the event and, more important, beliefs about ourselves and/or the world.

At the time of the "original event," our mind created and internalized certain self-protective beliefs. Over time, our system may have attracted additional people or circumstances that reinforced these beliefs.

Today, these beliefs influence or even direct how we perceive not only that original event, but new events that mimic that original event in some way. In other words, these old beliefs direct and limit our present perception. Seen in this way, it does not matter whether a belief was created 10 years ago or 10 minutes ago; the effect is the same.

Using PER-K, the solution is also the same, and change occurs at an accelerated rate in comparison with other change modalities.

A "do with" approach. Using PER-K, your subconscious mind directs the entire process and validates every decision. The facilitator merely provides support and some guidance. This contrasts with "do to" approaches common to many other healing and change modalities, where the facilitator or practitioner directs the process. In this sense, PER-K emphasizes and relies upon your innate intelligence or inner knowing, rather than on your conscious mind.

Permission protocols. PER-K also differs from other approaches in its rich focus on seeking permission before taking each significant step in the change process. Your system selects only those beliefs that are in your highest and best good. Every belief change and every action is made only when and if your entire system—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—gives explicit permission and is ready to receive and integrate that change or action.

Integrating other modalities. Because of its permission protocols, PER-K supports a comprehensive process for healing and well-being. Other modalities such as massage, energy work, chiropractic, and Feng Shui automatically become "part of the process" whenever your subconscious mind gives permission.

16. Q: How Do We Access And Change The Underlying Beliefs And Attitudes In Order To Sustain Real And Lasting Change?

A. The answer lies at the level below our conscious awareness known as the subconscious - the storehouse for past experiences, attitudes, and beliefs. Even well intentioned, motivated and committed individuals often sabotage themselves because the subconscious mind harbors beliefs that are contrary to success. These limiting beliefs are created from past experiences and are often out dated and unworthy of who we are now, and who we are becoming.

The subconscious mind can be accessed in a way similar to the storage memory in a personal computer. PER-K works like a “mental keyboard” - a user-friendly method of communicating with the subconscious mind that is simple, direct, and verifiable. This method of communication enables us to identify the underlying, limiting beliefs and repattern them, so they align with the principles and philosophies that produce lasting successful behaviors, actions and results.

This unique technology is easy to learn, fun to use and dramatically increases personal and professional effectiveness.

17. Q: Is PER-K "Mind Control?" “New Age”? Incompatible With My Religion? Dangerous? Difficult?

A: These questions come up occasionally. It is important to recognize the real question behind these questions. The real question is, "Are you going to try to control my mind without my permission?" It comes from various sources and it is important to honor the beliefs that create this question. The important message to convey is that PER-K gives you knowledge about how you can stay in control of your own mind, rather than being vulnerable to the desires of others. So, the answer to the question, "Is PER-K mind control, etc.?" is "No, because it gives you control over your own mind!" PER-K teaches you how to strengthen the beliefs you choose, it does not choose those beliefs you should strengthen. In that regard, PER-K crosses all dividing lines and is compatible with all religious beliefs.

PER-K actually takes the mystery away from the inner workings of your own mind. It’s like Mind Mechanics 101. Not only is there nothing to fear, there is much to be excited about: probably for the first time, you will be placed in the driver’s seat, to deliberately marshal and direct your mental powers and potential.

18. Q: What Is Muscle Testing and How Does It Work?

A: Muscle testing was discovered over 30 years ago by George Goodheart, D.C. (the originator of Applied Kinesiology) and in PER-K, it is used as an easy and effective way to communicate directly with the subconscious portion of the mind. The subconscious mind controls the autonomic nervous system and is responsible for our automatic physical and neurological functions. For example, our bodies move because the subconscious mind directs a complex set of electrical signals to the right muscles at the right time to perform a task such as reaching for an object. The strength of the electrical signal will determine the strength of the response in the muscles of the body. The electrical signal is dramatically affected by what kind of thoughts are being contemplated in the mind. When the mind is holding a stressful thought, an electrical conflict is created (typified by an overidentification with the left or right hemisphere of the brain) and the signal strength to the body is reduced, resulting in a weakened muscle response. The same thing happens when a person makes a statement with which the subconscious mind disagrees. The result is a weakened response in the muscles of the body. Consequently, muscle testing can be used to determine what thoughts are stressful to the body, as well as what ideas (beliefs) are supported or not supported at the subconscious level.

19. Q: How Can Beliefs I've Had For Years Change In Just A Few Minutes With PER-K™?

A: Most people think of negative beliefs as if they were actually people in their head trying to make their life miserable! It’s the same way people tend to think of word processing documents stored in a computer as "little tiny" documents. This, of course, is not the way it is. Both the software in a computer and the beliefs in a persons memory are patterns of energy held in an electromagnetic field. When the field is disturbed the pattern changes. A pattern of energy held in a computer for 30 years can be altered or deleted just as quickly as a pattern that has been in the computer for 30 minutes! So it is with the mind. It is all about how to alter the pattern, not about how long the pattern has been there.

Traditional coaching and talk therapy relies on insight as the primary means of trying to change the pattern. Unfortunately, the subconscious mind is not "wired" for logic as its preferred communication system. It is sensory based, (knows the world through the five human senses) rather than through the logic of the conscious mind. Consequently, it responds much better to sensory-based language. PER-K balances are processes that open the doorway to deliver the new belief to the subconscious mind, in a sensory-based format.

21. Q: Do I Have To Re-experience The Painful Feelings Of The Past To Release Them?

A: Most mainstream coaching and psychotherapy assumes that tapping into emotions is a prerequisite to meaningful change. PER-K doesn't make the same assumption. It has been my experience that when the subconscious mind has to access an emotion to change a belief it will. When it is not necessary to do so, it will not create emotional catharsis just for the effect unless that is the expectation of the participant. It should not be your intention to suppress emotions as they relate to the belief change process, however it is no more profound to have a belief change just because it is accompanied by an expression of emotion. Each person is different and each issue is different for each person. So, release expectations of the outcome and be curious about what it will take to change the belief.

22. Q: Why Haven't I Heard Of PER-K Before?

A: Until 1997, Rob Williams, the originator of PER-K, was the only person offering professional-level PER-K training. In spite of the limited training capacity, corporate clients have included Continental Airlines, Marriott Services West, United Artists Entertainment Group, Adolph Coors Company, Time Life Books, and the Symantec Corporation as well as many smaller organizations. Now there's a growing group of Certified PER-K Instructors personally trained by Rob Williams. In short, you'll be hearing a lot more about PER-K in the future!

23. Q: Who is the Originator of PER-K?

A: PER-K was originated in 1988 by Robert M. Williams, M.A. For 14 years Rob was a direct participant in the corporate world, holding management positions in the backpacking, energy management and telecommunications industries. His commitment to helping people lead more productive lives led him to seek a career as a professional psychotherapist. Ironically, it was his successful experience as a therapist that led him back to the corporate arena. His unique discoveries about human consciousness convinced him that there were simpler, more effective ways to manage our minds and direct our lives, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. For the last 14 years, Rob's "high tech/high touch" background has enabled him to provide a powerful and practical, "real world" orientation to his training programs and individual consulting services. Because of his ability to help individuals and groups manage accelerated change, Rob has become a nationally known seminar leader specializing in personal/professional development. He developed the basic techniques for PER-K in 1988! Since the creation of this cutting edge process for change, numerous businesses and thousands of people have benefited, both personally and professionally.