Recode Initiator Week 2

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  Recode Your Thoughts, Week 2

  Recoding Your ‘I Suck!’ Thought Patterns. Your negative thoughts are generally in one of these 3 categories: SELF – ‘I suck!’, OTHERS – ‘You suck!’, or OUTCOME – ‘Life sucks!’.  In this video we will be doing some major (though painless) surgery on those stubborn ‘I suck!’ thought patterns.

Recode Initiator Week 2 Video

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  3 Categories of Negative Thoughts

  If you examine your repetitive negative thoughts, you’ll notice that they fall in to one of three categories. They are either basically concluding that “I suck”, which are SELF focused negative thoughts, “You suck”, which are OTHERS focused thoughts, or “Life Sucks”, which are OUTCOME related thoughts.

  Its important to notice the difference because the type of negative repetitive thought–SELF, OTHERS, or OUTCOME–determines which change pattern is best at interrupting and shifting the thoughts.

  You may notice that an array of repetitive thoughts that feel quite unique and distinct to you (Like “I’m not going to be able to do this.” and “I don’t really belong here”) in fact all boil down to one simple conclusion. If you use the correct pattern interrupt to uproot the conclusion over time (in this case, “I suck”) then all of the variations on that pattern will fall away as well.

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  Why Recode Your 'I Suck!' Thoughts

  If you want to change your life experience and you are going to use changing your beliefs to change your life experience, it’s hard to imagine a more powerful and influential believe structure than your beliefs about yourself.

  I’m not enough, I’m not lovable, I’m not worthy, Who am I to be doing/saying this, I’m not capable….these beliefs are at the heart of life’s hardest experiences.

  We think that those kind of I suck! Thought patterns are fueled by underlying beliefs of unworthiness and to a certain extent that’s true, however those underlying belief patterns also rely on the repetitive thoughts to maintain them and keep them intact.

  So if we can free our attention from the ‘I suck’! negative thought patterns and interject more useful, and in fact, more truthful thoughts about ourselves, for example, ‘I didn’t succeed but if I practice or find out what I can do differently, next time I could succeed’…or ‘This person was being unpleasant to me but it’s probably not related to something inherent in me but some choice that I made’ then we can destabilize negative beliefs about ourselves and watch them dissolve and yield to more empowering beliefs about ourselves.

  If you practice consistently for even a few months you can start to reclaim some of the 80-95% of your attention that WAS controlled by these repetitive thought patterns.

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  The Power of Imagination

  Since most of the negative effects of I suck! Thought patterns occur in your imagination (ruminating over and over about a negative interaction after it happened or worrying relentlessly about something that might happen in the future) one of the most powerful tools we have to rewrite these patterns is also in your imagination.

  Your mind, body, and emotions doesn’t distinguish much between things that are physically happened to you and things that you imagine. Internally you experience both the real and the imagined the same. So if you can re-imagine a situation with an imagined positive outcome it has the effects of training your neurology to have a more positive association with that same situation or event.

  The more accustomed you are to relating positively to yourself in a given context or situation in your imagination the more likely you will react positively when that situation or context comes to be in physicality. It’s based on this observation that we recommend the following exercise to effectively recode your I Suck! Thought patterns.

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  Integration Exercises

  The key to freeing your attention and activating new thinking frameworks in place of the negative thought patterns which we spent repeating 80-95% of the time lies in integrating the ideas and concepts discussed in this week’s training followed by engaging in the exercises.  They are designed to take the ideas presented from concept to reality.

  According to behavioral scientists, it takes at least 21 days to create a new habit.   Consider repeating these exercises on a regular basis for that time interval to fully activate your new thinking frameworks.

  These integration exercises have been  summarized below. Complete instructions and worksheets are explained in the video and can be found in the downloadable Recode Manual – Module 1 pdf below.

  Integration Exercise – Movie Theater Change Pattern:  If you have persistent I suck thought patterns do the Movie Theater exercise.  You’ll be imagining you are in a movie theater playing the movie of the situation seeing yourself as the main character and the director. Complete instructions are in the video and downloadable workbook.

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  Self Reflections

  Reflections exercises are one or more questions that we’d like you to be in deep consideration of for the entire week.  These are meant to be shared with your family, friends, and community so that they can offer you a more complete 360 view of yourself, your identity, and your reality.

  Everyone has blind spots.  These are areas where we are less developed that are outside our view.  Getting reflections will point out things that you might not ever know yourself.

  In addition, the more you consider these reflection questions the more likely you’ll be able to break through your current level of thinking and use the exercises to leap frog into a new level of consciousness.

  Here are this weeks questions:

  1. What was it like to hear from the wise part of you?
  2. Did you notice any resistance to listen to or incorporate the advice?
  3. What practices or relationships remind you that you are lovable, whole, capable, and creative?