See things from a different perspective, with content and context reframing

Have you ever hung out the washing to dry outside, only for it to suddenly rain? Or maybe you know what it's like to be made redundant? More important than experiencing events like these, is how you responded to them. Were you cursing that rain, or did you see the funny side? What about that redundancy - did you despair at the loss of your job, or see the positive new opportunities that it freed up? If you took the latter course of action in any of these instances, even if after taking the first one, then you already know a little about content and context reframing, as taught on the NLP courses in Birmingham of Opt2XL (http://www.opt2xl.co.uk).

At its most basic level, this what reframing is about - seeing things from an alternative perspective, adopting a different point of view, reviewing a situation in another light. It's about breaking free of the shackles of rigid thinking that might have previously left you feeling downtrodden and dispirited. It's about recognising that nothing in life is inherently good or bad - instead, we apply our own meanings, perhaps not realising - until we enrol for NLP training in Birmingham - that we have a choice.

We respond to every event and circumstance that we face by framing it in a certain way - it's a natural process, via which we make sense of our world. Framing, then, isn't a creation of NLP, but content and context reframing are staples of our NLP coaching in Birmingham. So what is the difference between the two types of reframing? Well, we've basically already described content reframing, which is about realising that the stimulus - what happens - isn't the issue, but that the response is. So the event or behaviour isn't what you are looking to change - it's the meaning that you attribute to it.

The subtle difference between this and context reframing, is that the latter involves the identification of where, or in what situation, an event or behaviour would be of use. Those people training to become an NLP practitioner in Birmingham with us, learn that in one context or another, every behaviour is appropriate and useful. It might not be socially acceptable to push someone over, for example, but if that person is trying to attack you in the street, it could save your life. Or if you constantly procrastinate, you might not get much work done, but putting off a certain bad habit - like smoking - could help you to quit altogether.

By asking yourself when a particular behaviour would be valuable, you can recognise that a behaviour is simply a behaviour, before exploring the context. But whether you use content reframing or context reframing, there's no question of the power of reframing in helping you to live your life to the full. Sign up to one of Opt2XL's (http://www.opt2xl.co.uk) neuro linguistic programming courses to begin extracting the maximum value from reframing for yourself.

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