Lets talk about SUCCESS BLOCKERS that hold you back

                                                                                    What makes you tick?
   You don’t fit into a common mold, there are clear patterns that control your life - some good, some bad.
Things that began early in childhood or in adolescence.  Example - a subconscious self-limiting belief: “no one will want me”.  This is a fear of rejection or being left alone.
   A Living Belief is a piece of negative programming burrowed deep inside your self-conscious mind that negatively effect every part of your life.  This affects how you make decisions, solve problems, react to others.  The psychological and neurologic science - how did it become imbedded in your mind in the first place?  The key lies in your brain waves.  

   There are five different types of brain waves - Alpha, Delta, Beta, Theta, Gamma.  Each one is connected to a different mental state.
Up until six years old our brain spends most time in the Theta brainwave state - the state associated with hypnosis. This is the time when our brains are extremely receptive (like sponges).  Before 6 years of age our brain either doesn’t have or doesn’t utilize the filters to strain out good from bad; everything is just absorbed straight into or brain. Only after age 6 do our brains start filtering information, but by then our subconscious has already been tuned. In other words, your childhood programming quietly controls your entire life!

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Patterns of Problematic Thinking

Maladaptive or problematic beliefs / stuck points

These patterns often become automatic, habitual thoughts that cause us to engage in:

• ‘self-defeating behaviors’.

• Jumping to conclusions or predicting the future,

• Exaggerating or Minimizing,

• Oversimplifying, good/bad, right/wrong,

• Ignore or avoid important parts,

• Over-generalizing (a negative seen as never-ending)

• Mind reading, what you assume others are or will think,

• Emotional reasoning, “I Feel, therefore It Must Be”…

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Challenging Thoughts / Questions

Answer the following questions to assess your thought:

•  Is there substantial evidence for my thought?

•  Are you including all information?

•  Are you ignoring important parts?

•  Are you focused on just one piece or part of the story?

•  How, in what way?

•  Are you attempting to interpret this situation without all the evidence?

•  Is there evidence contrary to my thought?

•  Where did this thought come from? Is it a dependable source of information?

•  Is it based on feelings or facts?

•  is it of emotional reasoning?

•  Is it habit or fact?

•  Does this include all-or-none terms? (i.e., always, forever, never, need, should, must, can’t, and every time) Underline them.

•  Are you confusing possible with likely?

•  Are all thoughts related to the story?  Focused on unrelated parts?

•  Are you jumping to conclusions?

•  Are you exaggerating or minimizing ?

•  Over simplifying?  Under simplifying?

•  What would a friend think about this situation?

•  If I look at the situation positively, how is it different?

•  Will this matter a year from now? How about five years from now?