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Page 8, Viewpointe August 2024

Please Help Imprinting, What Is It?

By Josette Veltri
Now is the time to clean out your closets! The
homeless shelters are accepting used clothing. Please Imprinting is repeating
bring any clean, gently used clothing that you would the same thoughts until
they become embedded into
like to donate. The drop off location is at the BPCA our subconscious minds.
office located at 6909 SW 18th St., Suite A120 in Like fingerprints, human
the Boardwalk shopping plaza. The donations are imprinting is unique to
distributed to local churches and homeless shelters. all of us. Why, because it
Thank you for your generous donations this past year! involves what we believe
It is greatly appreciated!  (or told to believe) and
perceive about the people,
places, things, and events we experience (or experienced)
in our lives. by actively challenging them as we become more aware
So how do we change our imprinting? We change them

Beliefs take hold of us in very subtle ways. They
Community become ingrained in our subconscious minds and become of the dissonance between our past and present, our self-
our realities. Simply put, a schema (another word for
image and our social identity. Research shows to change
Shred Event imprinting) is a pattern of thinking and behaviors that imprinting (schemas), we willingly become mindful of a
memory and what needs it is fulfilling. Then, we challenge
people use to interpret the world. And, like our shadow,
follows us around throughout our lifetime. In other
it and replace it repeatedly with a value or values until the
words, our beliefs come from our projections – how value or values become stronger than the past imprinting.
The Boca Pointe Community Association hosted we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste EVERYTHING, (The Research Gate -The Dual Route to Value Change) An
another successful Community Shred Event on Friday, EVERYWHERE! example would be one who has been negatively imprinted
July 12 at The Club. MicroShred was onsite from 10 a.m. And, so a parable is told of blind men who have never by a meaningful parent, authority figure, teacher, minister,
to 1 p.m. shredding 7,200 lbs. of personal documents come across an elephant before and imagine what the rabbi, friend, or family member to believe and perceive
safely and securely. Thank you to all of the residents that elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a they are unable to manage responsibility, tackle new
participated and to The Club at Boca Pointe for letting us different part of the animal’s body, but only one part. tasks, exercise good judgment, or make good decisions
use your parking facilities.  (The Blind Men and the Elephant by John G. Saxe) will present themselves as being helpless and/or needy.
The first man touches the elephant’s knee and concludes I hope that you can understand the importance
it is a tree. The second bumps into the elephant’s side and of imprinting as it involves a specific set of learned
concludes it is a wall. Another feels its ear and concludes connections and/or aversions experienced that remain
it is a fan. And, another touches the elephant’s tail and with us UNTIL we recognize and take action to change
concludes it is a rope. them.
The lesson taken from this parable is humankind tends A good question to ask yourself is “Who told you you
to claim the truth based on their subjective beliefs and were_____?” Remember, “There is nothing either good
experiences. Our takeaway is to explore and develop or bad, but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
what psychology calls perspective awareness. That is
one’s ability to be self-aware and understand how a Josette Veltri, a Boca Point resident, is a certified
situation appears and how each person is reacting both educator and coach on loss and transition. Her purpose,
cognitively and emotionally to the situation. It is having to assist clients heal and move forward so they can go
an awareness that each of us has imprinted (intentionally from I Can’t to I Can, One Step at a Time. She can be
or unintentionally) a unique view of the world based on reached at josette@nextstepnewstart.com. (https://www.
personal beliefs and experiences. linkedin.com/in/josettejveltri/) 

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