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 last week’s blog post introduced ‘the frame’.   ‘the frame’ is not a new and exciting concept. if you spend your day within the mental health field you are familiar with cognitive behavior therapy (cbt)…most likely. if you have discovered some level of emotional freedom from a life coach philosophy you understand the attraction factor…

…giving you an easy tool to ‘disrupt’ stories (thoughts/beliefs) that are not contributing to your own well-being or the story that feels right to you.

ordinary day…extraordinary way…what does that look like? better…what does it feel like?

so when possible…choose curious. sometimes you just need sad or mad…sad and mad want to be felt…not thought about. notice it. name it. feel it without telling a story about it. if possible…choose curious when you think about sad and mad. now you’re problem solving…

pysch. it doesn’t exist. have you ever been surprised when you had to clean again? or that it was time to shower…go to the grocery store…? there is an ebb and flow to life that we can probably see in all aspects of physical life (in humans…in nature…in human nature?) to learn is to grow.…

i haven’t read, listened to, attended the workshop of every self-help/life coach approach…although I feel I have paid attention to a fair share…enough to pick up on the same trend..change the way you think…and circumstances, events, relationships, situations will change to match the new thinking.

However, if results in your life have become stagnant and you seem to continually seem stuck in a cyclical pattern of thought or circumstance…solitude is a great starting point to return to your natural state.

When we get so caught up in a problem we can find ourselves in a state of lack or limitation – and can feel powerless in our capacity to do anything about it. We have handed our power over to another…they or it is in charge of our happiness or level of satisfaction.