Jun 23 • Viki Thondley

6 Tools to Help You Create Change

Most people find change hard, particularly without any support or guidance. The greatest difficulty about change is when you’re not taking the right action to help yourself create the change because there’s a part of you not willing to let go of the old, or some kind of resistance in your bodymind.
Change requires our willingness to think, say and do things differently. 

This means trying new things and being willing to undertake tasks that you’ve never done before, such as finding reasons why you can try something new, instead of why you can’t.

Old stories and thinking patterns perpetually create the  feelings that we experience on a daily basis, which can often lead to overwhelming emotional stress and increasing automatic negative thoughts (ANTs). The more these old thoughts and stories are left unchallenged, the more control they have over our feelings, keeping us stuck and unable to move forward. 

The first aim is to get out of your head and step into your heart space, so you can slow your thinking and tune into how your body is feeling about the change you’re wanting. 

This way you’ll consistently learn to become present, and more adept at noticing what’s really coming up for you under the surface of your thoughts.
The following 6 tools are all fantastic methods of helping you achieve this: 

  1. practice the deep and conscious breathing to come out of the feelings and into your body, 
  2. relaxation exercises to quiet the mind and relax the body, 
  3. meditation to focus the mind away from thinking into feeling, visualisation to focus the brain on creating new associations of what you want, 
  4. journalling exercises to understand past and present feelings better, and 
  5. tapping (EFT) exercises to help calm your nervous system and clear emotional blocks.
By doing this when you feel overwhelmed, you will gradually train your nervous system to return to balance (homeostasis) more often, instead of being excitable and quick to overspill. 

The next tool is based on my original “3 C’s Formula for Changing Thoughts”: 

6. The 3C's Formula: "Catch, Challenge, Change"
  • Catch the old stories and worrying thoughts.  
  • Challenge the outdated thinking that causes you stress.
  • Begin to consciously change your thoughts, words and actions.
  • Be consistent and conscious in catching your thoughts and directing your attention wisely. 

If we keep thinking, speaking and doing the same things, we will continue to feel the same and nothing will change.

By using my Three C’s Formula regularly, you'll start to become conscious of what you are automatically thinking, which will in turn help you to change how you feel, and ultimately change how you react or respond. 

When you learn to catch, challenge, and change these thoughts, you reclaim your power. When you help others do the same, you change lives.

That’s why we teach these tools in our Holistic Life Coach & Mind-Body Practitioner certifications so our students can free themselves from limiting thoughts and learn how to create lasting change.

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