4 Personal Development Insights

How often do we encounter a negative belief or emotion that bubbles to the surface of our consciousness, without ever doing something about it?

Only really since I've been coaching people, have I realized that this is something we do often. And it ends up causing a lot of pain or discomfort when we either try avoid or resist the problem.

Here are 4 steps to transform negative emotions or limiting beliefs that may be getting in the way of your personal growth.

1. Awareness: Everything starts with awareness. You can't transform that which you're not aware of. However with increased awareness, you can begin to objectively observe any limiting or negative patterns of thought or behavior. 
2. Reflection: reflecting on negative beliefs or emotions that don't serve you is a great way of breaking them down to more manageable parts. Reflection means that you're digging into and questioning all those modes of thought and behavior that may be limiting you in any way.
3. Illumination: through the reflection process you can then highlight or illuminate any problem areas. Once you've illuminated these areas you can then work at dissolving them for more useful patterns of thinking and behaving aligned with both your vision and your goals.
4. Motivation: Following on from illumination you must now be motivated to take relevant action to build new neural networks in your brain through new behaviors that will take you to where you want to go (your north star). This is important otherwise you can easily slip back into those old limiting patterns of thought and behavior again.

You can repeat this process on a weekly basis and use it as a tool through an ongoing process of learning and development. Notice what's working and what's not working so you're able to reflect, illuminate and motivate yourself to transform that which is not serving you. Good luck!