Framing

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Framing this draws upon the idea that how you perceive everything depends on your point of view. You are changing its context. A person who annoys you can be funny if you frame it that way. We cast different perceptions. We change the "frame." To go deeper into reframe follow the below steps.

1. Identify the behavior you consider negative or troubling. A behavior or feeling you would like to eliminate.

2. Establish communication with the sensation inside that you are feeling. Anything that is triggering the behavior. Write down the behavior and triggers associated with it. A trigger is something outside you that triggers a habit.

3. Ask yourself what you would like as an outcome and recognize the difference between feeling and the behavior.
   What would you rather feel instead?

4. Tap into your creative energy to come up with a new feeling that you would like to experience.

5. Evaluate your new choices and explore why you might reject ideas. Sometimes when you change a pattern it affects other parts of your life. You have to make sure there are no unintended new consequences.

A reframe example could be: If someone had said to me, “I’m such a perfectionist,” I might respond, “How might that perfectionism help you with your life?” This allows you to discover the resourceful nature of that perfectionism. Now, we can also understand that too much perfectionism can be harmful, yet this shifts the picture frame from negative to empowering.

This is all about changing the meaning of something.

Talkative could be reframed into a good communicator.
Quiet could be reframed into reflective.
Stubborn could be reframed as determined.

We can look at things a few different ways...

We often have a negative view of ourselves.
We often have a negative view of the world.
We often have a negative view of the future.

Reframing allows us to shift focus and change ideas. This steps go from top down starting with the event.

Or you could do the following...

There are a lot of ways you could learn this stuff. Understand that shifting focus and changing the meaning of things is very powerful.

Good questions to ask when you are starting to reframe:

What am I actually trying to achieve by solving this problem?

What constraints have I self-imposed on solving this problem? Are they fake or not genuine?

How can I break the big problem up?

What if It is how I am perceiving it?

That's all. Upvote and re-steem! I mean reframe...