Transcript Positive Attitude and Reframing

POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND
REFRAMING
HOW YOUR BRAIN WORKS
• Every time you think a thought, your brain is
activating.
• An electrochemical path of communication is
occurring between cells.
• The more you think that thought, the stronger the
neural pathway becomes, making it more likely that
in the future, that thought you are thinking over and
over again will be the thought you think over and
over again!
• You have the power to create a new thought.
• You have the power to choose what thought you
will focus on.
WHAT THOUGHT WILL YOU CHOOSE?
• You have the power to view and therefore
experience any event as either negative or positive.
• Will you choose to view think negative, selfdefeating thoughts,
• Or
• Will you choose to think positive, constructive
thoughts?
COGNITIVE REFRAMING
• Human beings are “meaning makers.
• Buddhist philosophy tells us that this is the source of
much of our suffering.
• The world doesn't contain intrinsic meaning. We
take the facts presented from our environments
and infer meanings in our minds.
• But some of us get into the habit of assigning
meanings that leave us feeling powerless, lonely
and unmotivated.
COGNITIVE REFRAMING
• Here is another way to understand what is meant
by reframing:
• Edward Nelson Explains Reframing
COGNITIVE REFRAMING
• Reframing occurs when you take a particular
circumstance or event and change the meaning
you have assigned to it.
• Let’s practice: Think of a specific problem you have
in your life right now.
• Now, practice how you could possibly view that
problem as an opportunity.
COGNITIVE REFRAMING
• Next, think of some particular weakness that you’ve
seen in yourself in the past…
• Try to spin that weakness into a strength. Be
reasonable. This isn’t about lying to yourself.
CHANGE YOUR THINKING
• You have the power to direct your thinking!
• You have the power to change a negative to a
positive!
• Practice this often – the more you recognize your
negative thinking and reframe the thought to a
positive, the better you’ll be able to do it. Like
anything, practice makes perfect.