Podcast Summary
The importance of understanding your mental framework: Being aware of your mental framework can help you avoid biases, hypotheses, and underlying beliefs. Understanding it is vital to interpret experiences and navigate them positively.
A mental framework is a unique way of making sense of oneself and the world. It is the interaction between experiences and the way of seeing them fit together. It is essential to be aware of your mental framework to avoid biases, hypotheses, and underlying beliefs that might not go together. Understanding mental programming is vital, and subconsciously, bias happens, and it's crucial to examine and be aware of it. Trauma works with the brain as if the past event is still happening, and it could affect the way of thinking. Therefore, it is crucial to identify and understand the mental framework to interpret experiences to help navigate them in a positive direction.
Understanding and Coping with Trauma during Shelter-in-Place: It's important to distinguish between past and present threats, stay grounded, and recognize how financial instability and conditioning impact our response to the environment. Modification of mental frameworks and active coping mechanisms are crucial.
Living under shelter-in-place orders can create a mental framework of outside as bad and inside as good, leading to trauma responses even when leaving the house. It's important to differentiate between past threats and the not-active threat of the present and to stay grounded while navigating the actual threat of the coronavirus. While human connection is valuable, physical distancing is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus. Financial instability can create another layer of trauma. Recognizing our conditioning and actively modifying our mental frameworks can help us understand how we respond to the environment and make sense of our experiences.
Developing Cognitive Flexibility through Journaling: By regularly journaling, you can identify patterns in your thinking and become more aware of your internal dialogue. This awareness can help you adapt and manage your energy during times of change, ultimately improving your psychological health.
Having cognitive flexibility or the ability to stretch, move, or flex your thinking is crucial to psychological health. It allows you to adapt to abstract circumstances and not get stuck in binary thinking. Journaling is a great way to examine your framework for thinking. Writing it down helps you notice themes in your self-dialogue and become aware of your internal dialogue, including your inner critic. Being a scientist and collecting data about yourself allows you to analyze and change your thinking when faced with changes like those happening now. The ability to adapt is essential during times of change and helps manage energy when trying to keep going.
Adapting to Change and Acknowledging Past Traumas for Success and Prevention: Being aware of our mental framework and operating under constraints, we must practice patience and adaptability in any process. Acknowledging past traumas is crucial to preventing extreme situations and promoting success.
We are designed to adapt and being aware of this mental framework helps to be more intentional about responding to negative feelings. Change is inevitable, and it is important to handle, react to, deal with, and make sense of it. We are always operating under certain constraints, and patience and adapting are the keys to success in any process, such as raising food or children. Our thoughts, behaviors, and actions are all influenced by past generations' traumas, and it is essential to acknowledge their impact. Trauma is the root cause of many extreme situations, and we must strive to understand it to prevent future occurrences.
Coping with Trauma and Grief: Moving forward from traumatic events and grief requires setting them alongside other truths in our lives, finding healthy ways to cope, and acknowledging that everyone has gone through their own pain.
Traumatic events like loss can cause people to hold on to everything and value everything intensely, creating extreme environments. We may grieve for future losses and experiences, which shouldn't be minimized. To cope with loss, we need to set our grief alongside other things we know to be true and create a framework for our life. Trauma can be a double-edged sword, reactivating old coping mechanisms. We need to find healthy ways to deal with trauma to move forward in life. It's important to acknowledge that everyone has been through experiences that were painful and traumatic. We can all change our framework and grow in a positive way.
The Importance of Framework, Adaptability, and Feedback in Achieving Success: Having a framework and being adaptable while seeking feedback can help one change and cultivate new skills to achieve goals. Hope is necessary to inspire change, and feedback can create a conducive environment for growth.
Having a framework or a recipe is necessary to accomplish any task. Even though one may not have the necessary skills, cultivating them through practice and with the right guidance can help in achieving success. The mental framework that one has is based on past experiences and their history, which can limit their potential. However, by reflecting on their mental framework and being adaptable, people can change and cultivate new skills to achieve their goals. Hope is a key ingredient for life as it keeps one going and inspires change. Feedback from a board of advisors can help in identifying areas of improvement and in creating a conducive environment for growth.
Embracing Growth through Difficult Experiences: While it may be tough to shift our mindset, viewing unpleasant situations as a chance to grow can help us come out stronger and enjoy the journey. Be patient with yourself and look for opportunities for discovery.
Amidst unpleasant experiences and aversive situations, there is always an opportunity for growth and learning. While it may not always be easy, it is important to try and shift our perspective to see the silver lining. It is also important to be patient with ourselves as we adapt to change, and recognize that decision-making takes energy and resources. When we embrace difficult situations as an adventure and look for opportunities for discovery, it becomes a lot more fun. Remember that not all pain is created equal, and with the right mindset, we can grow through difficult experiences and come out stronger on the other side.
