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Someone once coined the phrase Junko Logic, and you are using it here. First, you begin by de-nominalizing an event into a process, i.e., the word "belief" into "thinking." Then, you turn right around and do the opposite by nominalizing the process that goes behind the meaning of "the minds natural evaluation process." So I ask, "Natural for whom? And how do you know?"

Speaking of Junko Logic, could it be that the so-called natural evaluation process is one that changes from person to person? And that it might just be an act of natural evaluation for some persons who are intimately familiar with NLP to simply change beliefs at will? It just might be the way they think about thinking? Or not, I think.

Beliefs, or believing rarely have anything to do with fact. In fact, fact rarely has anything to do with fact, but with theory. And theory, I believe, has to do with expectation, at least mostly. You see, it's all a matter of perception. Can you feel what I'm saying? And in thinking about how you think about thinking. I think that you think that when someone just changes a belief they are bypassing the process of thinking. At least that is what I am thinking you thought.

But if they do change a belief, was not thinking a part of the process that led to the changing of the belief? Or do you think that people who try on new and different beliefs do so without thinking? Or could it be that they think differently than you?

It seems to me that you really weren't thinking when you were thinking about what you wrote above. What does it mean to be not thinking while thinking? It means that one is responding without thought. That is to say that they have become so patterned in the way that they think that they're thinking without really thinking. In other words, the way in which they think has become so habitual that they never really take the time to think about it, their process of thinking that is.

So you are completely right. There is a downside. But that downside is not in changing beliefs, but instead in relying on what you call the "mind's natural evaluation process." Either that, or I am unnatural in my thinking. Because any time I get a chance to bypass my natural way of thinking, I will. Works for me!

Just some more thoughts

Carmine