I practice what I call a Brain Flip when I find myself upside-down in my thinking. I have to practice right-side-up-thinking.
When walking straight into a negative situation, and I feel like I cannot avoid the “crap storm,” I immediately ask myself, “How can I flip this?” Turn it around and look for the positive moment, the comedy, the lesson here. My mind begins to focus on something different, and I can knock myself out of a funk quickly this way. Here’s how—
I gather evidence.
I can gather evidence—to prove that I am terrible person, disregarding all the good info and just logging all the mess-ups, mistakes and errors that I make in life. In this way, I am gathering evidence to prove to myself that I am the screw-up here.
Or—
I can flip it, and—gather evidence and look for what I did right in the situation. Paying attention to the details (evidence) placed before me. What can I learn from this situation? How can I look beyond the obvious? What is being revealed to me? What is my motive? Who is being helped here? Who can I serve? Sometimes it’s me—Sometimes it’s you.
There is a concept called “act as if”—where you think and act the way you believe you want to be—not drinking, showing up sober, sharing by talking, acting like you are a free and whole person—and you keep doing this behavior until your brain believes that this is the truth for you.
And that’s when I start living it.
Changing my thoughts changes my behaviors.
I am proof it works.
Try it.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Romans 12:2
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