Reframe Your Reality: Unlocking Life's Magic

Discover and unlock the transformative potential of reframing as Sarah guides you through some practical exercises and shares how integrating this technique into her life has transformed it both personally and professionally. Sarah encourages you to fully utilize this technique and requests that you ask any questions you may have in the classroom comments. Reframe your reality today and unlock a new magical life that will more than return on your investment.

Transcript

Hello and welcome and thank you for taking the time to listen to my track on reframing.

Honestly it really is a powerful tool and technique so I'm so keen to share it with you because it can magically transform your life as you integrate it into your world,

Into your day-to-day existence,

Into the way you think,

Act,

Behave,

Respond etc.

I first learned about reframing back in 2012 when I trained and qualified as a coach.

It transformed my relationship with my son.

Why?

Because I used to describe him as challenging,

Hard worker,

Drama queen.

Those words did describe him but they were negative,

They had this sort of weight attached to them and once I started to reframe and use the power behind it to change the way I described how I was feeling or his behaviour I should say as energetic,

As lively,

As fun,

Sense of humour.

That lifted how I was experiencing my world with my son.

And if I fast forward to 2020 when we all had Covid hit the world and my business flatlined I reframed how I was responding to that rather than seeing it as a negative.

Yeah my business flatlined it was a bit of a big negative however I chose to see it as an opportunity to do the things that I couldn't do ordinarily because I was busy recruiting.

It was how I then experienced it.

It is so powerful.

I talk about perspective,

Energy and acceptance which is sort of an expansion of reframing in my APE Mindset Methodology course.

What is it?

What is reframing?

What does it mean?

The words you use,

It's how you use the words and how you experience the world,

It's how you put a positive spin on what could be a negative experience.

I constantly integrate reframing into my life and it has made a massive difference to me over the years.

Even though I'm a positive person and I tend to view the world through a positive lens,

Even when I've had those periods of overwhelmed frustration myself,

I have employed the reframing.

I really have.

It is game changing.

So let me use a word to explain,

To describe.

I mean I've just mentioned overwhelm.

Now overwhelm is,

Yeah I mean you know what overwhelm feels like but actually when you reframe it,

It's an opportunity,

A breakthrough opportunity to clear out stuff that no longer serves you.

It's a bit like lancing a boil and clearing it out to heal.

As we reach that point of overwhelm,

When we understand and we reframe the situation we're going through,

It gives us the opportunity to surrender,

To stop doing stuff,

To give ourselves permission,

To release control.

There are so many layers to reframe including how we respond to situations as I've just explained with overwhelm.

It's how we think,

How we act,

How we behave.

I want to talk and focus predominantly on the language that we use and the words we use to describe things verbally in our minds and in the way I guess how we act and respond to.

Because when we start to use words differently we experience like I describe with my son when I change the words around him,

It helps you then change the way you feel about a situation.

It really is quite,

It's magical honestly,

It's really magical.

I'd really encourage you to embrace it.

It's game changing and we've got choices in whether we choose to reframe.

It's that reframing comes hand in hand I would say with choices.

Let me expand a little bit further.

I ran a Masterclass,

Midlife Masterclass a couple of years ago and I asked those who were taking part to let me know how they were feeling about midlife and get their feedback in advance of the actual Masterclass.

The words that came back were confused,

Stressed,

Anxious about everything,

Unable to take control,

Life is passing you by,

Totally stuck,

Feeling negative,

Frustrated.

Those words,

The negativity of those words,

Yes they might be describing the situation.

However once you start to look at them and pick them you can start to feel differently and experience things completely differently and the messages that we send to our subconscious are really important.

Even if you don't believe it,

The subconscious responds to what you are telling it.

So the more that you use positive phrases and they sink into your psyche,

Into your subconscious,

The more you will embody it,

Embrace it and the more you will attract back of a positive nature.

Let's try a quick exercise.

If you would grab a pen and write down how you're feeling right now.

Don't overthink it,

Just write down some words and phrases as to how you might be feeling right now and I'm going to give you a couple as I want to use as examples.

So let's go back to the word confused.

When we reframe it we can look at confused as it's great that I've got lots of ideas and things to consider right now.

Let's have a look at the word frustrated.

I've reached a point whereby I know that I have options and I'm ready to make some changes.

Do you see how you can start to reword,

Rephrase,

Re-describe those words that have that negative connotation attached to them?

And as I said already it doesn't matter whether you believe them to be true right now,

The important thing is starting to train your conscious mind to think differently and send new messages to your subconscious.

With practice this becomes your normal and it is game-changing.

I constantly reframe all sorts of situations and scenarios and I think over that course of time I've done it so much that I automatically now think of a positive nature.

It's also important to add in gratitude and appreciation to all that you have too.

It does sit very nicely with reframing.

You can access one of my tracks on gratitude because when you embody that and you are grateful for all that you have,

Again that works in that reframing.

It's appreciating because we've all got so much stuff to be appreciative of in this world.

I'd love to hear your comments on reframing and what words and phrases you've used and changed and how differently you feel when you do so too.

We've got the classroom there,

Please do pop some words in.

Maybe you've got some words that you want to reframe and you're confused.

You might be going to use that word confused and maybe you are confused.

Maybe you've got lots of ideas in your mind and you're not sure how to go about reframing and you'd like to ask me some questions around words or me to help you come up with some solutions to some ideas.

Pop it into the classroom chat and I'll help.

I love helping,

I love when you reach out to me.

As you start to change the words you use,

Your energy levels will shift as well.

You know,

Going back to the words that you have been using,

You noted down,

I'm hoping that you've got some different ideas.

But every time you think about something in a negative way,

I want you to hear me saying in your mindset,

Reframe,

Reframe,

Reframe.

Because do you know what?

When you start to do that,

When you start to hear me or use whatever it is else you want to do,

Whatever word you want to employ,

It's not for me to tell you what to do.

Because even situations and scenarios,

Like I referenced COVID hitting and flatlining my business,

Had it not flatlined my business then,

Had it not given me the opportunity to do other things,

I probably wouldn't be here recording this content on Insight Timer today.

So things shift,

Things change.

When you look at things differently,

It puts you onto a completely different trajectory,

Which is a very difficult word for me to say and maybe I ought to rephrase it or reframe it even.

It really is a game-changing tool.

So do take time to look at the situation that you might be in,

Scenarios that you might be in.

Check out my course on Ape Mindset Methodology and the track on Gratitude as well,

Because they will help you in conjunction with this track on reframing.

As you start to stack all this stuff together,

It transforms your life.

It really,

Really does.

And I would love to hear from you.

I really would love to hear how you have started to employ reframing into your life,

Whether it's just the words that you're using or your responses to situations.

Because believe me,

If you just take the time to take a step back before you respond to things and you reframe it and look at the opportunities and how you can work it from a positive angle,

It really does make a difference.

Anyway,

That's me.

I've been talking about reframing.

I look forward to hearing from you and thank you for listening.

Reviews

Reframing, the term alone speaks volumes and shifts the vibration of any negative mindset! Great addition - thank you for sharing these wise words!