We have All Been There...
The Day Seems to be Normal...
Everything you Believe is Going According to Plan...
Then...
Slam!
You get Hit with the Unexpected...
Unwanted...
And Irritating...
Which All Appears to Completely Ruin Everything that You had Planned...
You Day Begins to Go Sideways...
Frustration becomes Overwhelming...
And the Day then Becomes Extraordinarily Difficult.
These Days Will Happen.
We Cannot Escape this Reality of Life.
No Matter How Truly Incredible You Are...
Or How Spectacular Your Plans and Designs Are.
Things will Go Wrong at Some Point...
Often in Ways You Would Never Expect.
However...
There is a Trap that Most of Us Fall into as Humans...
They are Called Vicious Cycles.
When things Begin to Go Wrong...
What Happens?
We Focus on Everything that is Wrong.
What Does this Do?
Causes More Emotions like Anger, Frustration, and Irritation.
This Begins the Chain Effect.
These Emotions begin to Ignite Our Survival Instincts in Our Psychophysiology...
When these Begin...
Certain Human Capabilities Diminish.
Such as Problem-Solving and the Ability to See Patterns.
The Negative Result of this?
We are Far More Likely to Miss Things...
Which will Cause More Problems...
Which Will Add to the Anger, Frustration, and Irritation...
Driving the Survival Instinct Further...
And the Vicious Cycle Continues.
What We Focus On is Usually What We Find More Of.
This is also called the Frequency Illusion in Psychology.
If You are Focused on Problems...
Subconsciously...
You will Find More Problems.
If You are Focused on Anger...
Subconsciously...
You will Find More Things to be Angry About.
When You Find What You are Focused On, You will Feel Justified in the Emotions You are Having which will Reinforce the Emotions Further.
This is an Incredible ability of the Brain...
Just Not Utilized in a Way that Helps Us.
By Design, Our Brains are Incredible in Finding Whatever We Tell it To Look For.
Seek, and Eventually You "Will" Find...
For Better or Worse.
For Truth or For Deceit.
Our Brains will Continue to Search for Anything that We give it the Slightest Hint to Begin Paying Attention To.
And I Know...
It is a Struggle in the Moment...
When the Emotions are the Absolute Strongest.
But here is what is Amazing...
Once You Understand a Pattern...
You can Begin to See It Much Sooner and Easier.
When You See It...
You Gain the Power to Change It.
Which Allows You to Enact what is Known as a Pattern Interrupt.
A Psychological Disrupt.
Think of it like this...
You Drive on a Road All the Time...
Everything happens the Same Way Every Time...
And You Despise the Road...
So You Make a Decision that You want to Try a Different Road.
But One Day...
You're Paying Attention...
And You See an Exit that You've Never Paid Attention to Before.
Did it Just Magically Appear?
Of Course Not...
But Because You Wanted to Go on a Different Road...
Your Brain began to "Look" for Other Roads...
And Now You can Choose to take the Exit Instead of the Path You Despise.
This is What We are Doing...
Just for Our Brain.
So...
What is the Pattern Interrupt to Help Us?
Focus on the Good Things in Your Life...
The Blessings...
What is Going Well.
Now...
Will this Pattern Interrupt "Solve" Your Problems Directly?
Of Course Not...
But...
What it Will Accomplish is to Change the Focus on Your Brain "Away" from the Negative Emotions the Ignite Your Survival Instincts.
Your Survival Instincts Do Not Ignite when Focused on the Positive Aspects of Our Lives.
Which then Allows Your Brain a Better Path...
For Problem-Solving and Finding Patterns...
Which Means You're Less Likely to Encounter "More" Problems...
And Perhaps You Also Find a Wonderful Solution...
Which then can Ignite a Virtuous Cycle...
Where One Positive Thing...
Leads to Another Positive Thing.
Will Problems Still Occur?
Yes.
But they Will Impact You Less and You'll Refocus to a Better Quality of Thinking Faster.
This is How You Utilize a Pattern Interrupt to Aid You Toward Your Goals.
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