Well because the brain wants to conserve energy and effort by chunking things together it is able to concentrate on the more important things. The brain in effect chunks actions and responses together to form automatic responses that become habits. These habits can be very healthy to ensure we are functioning to our maximum capacity, but they can also get in our way. We also based on our experience form beliefs about the world we live in, and these beliefs can be empowering beliefs or can be negative beliefs based on our conditioning in life. These beliefs form the basis for how our brain chunks actions and responses together because it is based on our view of the world.
If you hold the belief that spiders are scary then you will automatically be frightened of them. So, what does this mean?
Think about your default settings, think about how you can change those settings to reframe your mindset and develop a positive mind-set to help you be the best version of you.
Our default settings are set by how our past experience has programmed us.
We know we can change the settings.
Think about any belief you currently have, and use the following buttons:
Rewind – Look into your past to identify how you have formed a belief, and why.
Fast forward – Visualise the future and how you would like to behave; do it in detail, then add the feeling of acting out those new behaviours.
Pause – Take time out to think about where you are right now and your state of mind, to enable you to move from a place of ‘I can’t’ or ‘I’m unable’, to ‘I will’.
Play – Move to this new belief, and press play to take action.
At any time, remember that you can enter a passcode or turn up the volume…You can enter the passcode or turn up the volume for the ‘best version of you’.
This is about knowing you at your best, or being able to visualise yourself at your best, and then knowing how to tap in. It is about anchoring, using the passcode or the volume button to do it.
In any given moment, if you feel yourself only playing at a 5 out of 10, dial-up to a 10 or as high as you can go. Feel yourself at your best, and then act accordingly. This is a simple technique to move you from one state to another.
Paul is a qualified Executive Coach who uses the transformational power of coaching to equip leaders with the tools they need to unlock their leadership potential and make a lasting impact.
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