Populations of people who have experienced trauma or have severe anxiety, addiction, fears and phobias have what we consider a software issue – their brain too easily goes into an acute survival response. neurofeedback appears to work by training the cortex to remain engaged and not be bypassed as usual during a fight-or-flight reaction. It improves the ability of a person to quiet their mind, therefore, better prepare them for a daily practice of re-framing. In other words, neurofeedback increases the brain’s capacity and prepares a person for a daily practice of re-framing.

“Prejudice is a shutting up of the mind against the entrance of new light, against the perception of more beauty, against the hearing of diviner music. The partisan clings to his little, fleeting, flimsy opinion, and thinks it the greatest thing in the world. He is so in love with his own conclusion (which is only a form of self love), that he thinks all men ought to agree with him, and he regards men as more or less stupid who do not see as he sees, while he praises the good judgement of those who are one with him in his view.” [from http://eightpillarsofprosperity.com

Re-framing allows us to communicate better with anyone we meet and to respond with personal power to life’s circumstances. It’s an important “muscle” to exercise.

Cheers, Thea

I loved the story of the priest by the way. Thanks Luciano.

Graeme

Your post and commentary itself illustrates the richness of perspective and framing. As for helping organizations take this on, I applaud the leaders who cultivate the structures that not only allow this, but create it as an business value. May we all find ways to help that happen in our own spheres of influence.

Very intriguing post about the framing of situations. We at Peak Potentials Training help people put things into perspective regarding their financial blueprint. One quote that your post reminds me about is “rich people play the money game to win vs. poor people play the money game not to lose”. Thanks for a great reminder- i look forward to your future posts.

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Hope this helps!

Here’s an article I wrote that I believe has a lot to do with that:
Are you stuck in a rut? Run from the experts!

Thanks for the insight!

The framing tools you’ve suggested are great ways to kick ourselves out of conditioned thinking. Excellent, thanks! Another simple way to un-frame is to think with a beginner’s mind. It’s not exactly detaching oneself, but more of starting from ground zero. Not an easy task, but can be really useful.