Auto-Response Psychology

Following its continued significant impact on our clients, Powerchange is now pioneering the development of the powerful field of AR Psychology.

The word ‘auto-” simply means something happening by itself, on its own, automatically. An Auto-Response is one that you make yourself, most of the time quite unconsciously, deep inside your thinking processes.

“NOW I Understand!”

We love the “NOW I understand!” feeling. The truth is, people love to learn new things. We are addicted to it. It seems we are born with a discovery obsession. We are compulsively curious, making endless connections and creating ‘connection patterns’ in order to make sense of our world. It seems we believe “Everything means something”, and in the absence of clarity or any ‘obvious’ meaning the human mind tends to create its own. We literally "make it up”, filling in the ‘gaps’ as best we can from our past experience.

Once we’ve put two-and-two together and come to an understanding of each ‘fact’ or ‘truth’ it gets built into the fabric of our thinking and added to the layers of our life.

As we get more skilled at putting those bits of information together in ways that are useful to us, creating more perceptions of how the world around us ‘is’ and what it means for us, we come to put our trust in our ability to make judgements. We go on to assume that the judgements and conclusions we have come to ARE RIGHT, and they sink quietly down from our daily consciousness into the foundations of our thinking and reasoning. They have become FACT to us. TRUTH. The way things ARE. ‘Proven’. Safe to build on. Our brains tell us we no longer need to question these pieces of information, because it is ‘obvious’ they are true, so we build the next layer of ‘knowledge bricks’ upon the sure foundation of the last layer.

Most of the major decisions we have built our lives on have been made before we were ten. Most of the decisions we make in the subsequent years, right up to the present time, are built on these ‘beliefs’.

Auto-Response Psychology is the study of these decisions: how we make them, how they affect daily life, what we can learn from them and how we can change them when we find they’re not working the way that we want them to work.