How To Break Old Thought & Behavior Habits That Create Inner Stress/Tension & Anxiety
1. Identify the Obstacle – In these pain disorders this is our chronic thought patterns and behaviors (Type A traits) that generate inner tension AND repress emotional energy. Acknowledge the thought and behavior and ask “what am I feeling right now” or “why am I behaving this way”. Be present or mindful of how you are being.
2. State your Mantra – Make this your own. “Thank you for helping me be aware, I know what is going on with this disorder and I choose not to create inner tension with these old chronic patterns”.
3. Deliberately redirect out of your old pattern while remaining in your present situation – You are not running away from your situation and you are not falling into your old tension producing patterns. You are where you are! But you are acutely aware that you are now deliberately creating a new (more open and allowing) thought and behavior. If you were in your old chronic worry- you now redirect out of the worry thoughts. If you were in your old striving, self-conscious, controlling behavior – you are now aware of the inner tension this produces and you deliberately switch your attitude and behavior out of these patterns and into a more open, allowing behavior. This is the work that reverses this pain disorder. This is the transformational process.
4. Be consistent and persistent – This is the daily moment to moment work. You are switching out of the way you create and maintain inner tension in your nervous system. By remaining in your present situation without the old repressing patterns you are also allowing yourself to experience or feel your emotional energy. This is the natural process of allowing your emotional energy to be open (flowing) versus stuck (repressed). Create your new mental scripts and write them down. Repeat these new mental patterns each day, make revisions, improve them and consistently keep using them to create new patterns that keep you out of the old repressing patterns.
There is no reason to get stuck in this process/practice and in the TMS disorder!
Hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.
How to Break Old Patterns That Create Tension
Posted - 01/21/2009 : 09:22:29
