FUTURES UPDATE - Reframing - Overcoming Resistance to Change

Our learning comes from our past which affects the decisions we make in the present.  Our decisions are often made based on the deep assumptions we have about ourselves and about how we see “The” truth of the world.  Another way of putting this is that our learning from the past creates our worldview.  Our worldview is the way we ‘see the world’ and the way we see any situation we come across. 

Essentially our personal worldview and cultural worldview determines the way we process information that becomes our automatic thoughts which in turn becomes our behaviour.  And we feed this back into our worldview as a continuous cycle which can be thought of as a permanent cloud above our heads, except this cloud can be as if it is built of bricks and mortar, and is very difficult to change. 

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