Reframing is a way of changing the way you look at something and, in return, it changes your experience of it.
All experiences are perceived through our extrasensory perception filters and how we interpret situations triggers a series of thoughts that unconsciously create our reality.
When trauma happens, our bodies react. But many times, the body becomes frozen and immobilized. This shutdown response most of the time leaves trauma victims feeling as if they cannot trust themselves, helpless and victimized.
One of the most important things anyone can do to cultivate emotional wellness in their life is to see the positive in all life situations through reframing. It seems to be a lot easier in theory than practice but with patience & practice, it can be done!
Reframing our thoughts allows anyone to create new supportive neurological pathways to help reprogram the brain.
All situations which happen are not good or bad and have no inherent meaning. We make our own judgements about them from viewing the situation through our own views, experiences, perspective or “frame”.
Healing comes from creating new positive “frame”. Reframing is a tool that anyone can use to ground and become emotionally and mentally centered. Reframing allows individuals to manage their thoughts and interpreting events by transforming specific negative thoughts into positive ones
Here’s how Reframing works:
An event happens to you. You perceive an event as a negative one based on your toxic core beliefs. That causes automatic negative thoughts and negative feelings, leads to inaction depression and sabotaging behaviorisms.
Reframing transforms automatic negative thoughts into more positive ones which gives individuals an opportunity to neutralize negative feelings and become more action‑oriented.
The three key goals you want to become aware of are:
1. What negative beliefs do you tell yourself about yourself or different life situations? Take a moment to notice what irrational core beliefs keep bubbling up.
self-defeating thoughts, emotions and actions make us a magnet for more of the same limitations in life.
2. What negative views about yourself do you tell yourself ?
3. What negative beliefs of the world do you have?
Now notice what words and emotions come to mind. Reflect on one experience that has gotten you mentally and emotionally out of balance.
Ask yourself. Is this 100% true or partially true or not true at all after each question.
At first, you may feel, “Of course it’s true!” because you’re likely in a negative emotional state. Ask yourself the same question again,digging a little deeper. Pay attention to feelings which bubble up. Many times they give us clues to our real truth.
Quick Steps to reframing
1. Identify the type of emotion experienced,
2. Identify negative core beliefs which prevents us from seeing the bigger picture.
3. Ask yourself, are the statements I tell myself 100% true, partially true or not true at all.
4. Tap into what you feel. Feelings and emotions are the gateway to spiritual healing.
5. What did you learn? What would you do differently? What were some positive attributes to the experience or the way you handled the experience?
6. Reinforce Reframing through positive action to see yourself or/and the experience differently.
7. Daily rituals of prayer, journaling and meditation to help with stress and self awareness for healing.
There are three main goals you want to achieve by performing reframing:
1. Describing your situation as accurately and in great detail.
2. Bring to light your personal power in your situation.
3. Scan and analyz alternative views to find better alternative perspectives about yourself or the experience.
reframing, gives us the ability to cope with the situation instantly improves and the negative emotions like severe anger, depression dramatically decreased.
Our subjective reality is anchored in our core beliefs, values, past life experiences and desires.
looking at life through a positive reframe doesn’t mean you forget or ignore all the pain and suffering which you experienced. It means you deal with the limited perspective by finding the silver lining in our experience.
