Session 7: Tenets of Psychological Mastery
How can you use the power of your mind to support and strengthen who you really are? These three actions aim your mind and provide the fertile ground for developing a more engaged and consciously-directed mind.
Focus on (and Live From) Your Strengths, Not Limitations.
The last 50 years the field of psychology has taught us to focus almost exclusively on what is wrong with us, our malades and disorders. Collectively, many of us are suffering from a "weakness hangover" where we focus more on our limitations and problems that what makes us strong, limitless. It's time to re-engage and focus on what makes you remarkable.
My weaknesses and limitations that I have overly focused on include...
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My five top strengths in life include...
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If I lived from these top strengths more often and with greater focus, these things would change in my life...
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The way I'm going to remind myself of my strengths and live from them more often is...
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Use the Power of Questions to Direct Your Mind.
Questions aim our focus. Most people know this but still ask themselves disempowering questions when chasing their dreams or interacting with others.Let’s direct the power of your mind by choosing five questions you could ask yourself every day to elevate your mood and life experience.
The five questions I could ask myself every single day that would put me in a positive mood and direct my focus for the day positively are...
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The way I’m going to remind myself of these 5 questions every day is to...
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Control Your R.W.I.D.
R.W.I.D. stands for “Relative Weight of Importance and Duration.” The concept explains that for any given thought we have in our minds, we assign it a level of importance (e.g. pay attention to it or not, assign emotion to it or not) and we focus on it for a given amount oftime (duration). The more importance we give a thought, and the longer we focus on it with importance, the more “real” it becomes in our minds and the more our unconscious repeats the thought to us. The good news is we can wield control of this process and choose togive empowering thoughts more importance and longer durations of contemplation.
The thoughts that deserve more importance on my “mental dashboard” each day include...
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The next time I spend too much time giving trivial or disempowering thoughts too much weight and time, I’m going to immediately...
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