much of our teacher training has been focused on change. ana provided us with her formula for change:
1. catch yourself doing behavior
2. take many deep breaths to reset your energy
3. congratulate yourself for having caught behavior
4. take a step that puts you in a healing path or direction (as you do this you will develop a repertoire of steps)
one example of something that ana says to investigate is our addiction to foods or certain types of foods. me, sugar. me, addict.
so when i'm craving sugar because i'm bored, sad, tired, etc., i should catch myself in the craving...hopefully pre-ice cream scooping process (because as saint like as i'd like to be, once a bowl is scooped there's no stopping). congratulate myself on being self aware enough to have caught the behavior. then do something.
keeping in mind, "don't make changes to the extreme as it sets you up for failure". one thing recommend was if you're craving something 'sweet' then do something that feels sweet to you.
now it's hard for me to conceive of something that would be a sufficient 'sweet' replacement but even just recognizing what was the catalyst behind the craving i think is a step in a good direction.
hmmm. interesting.
Written out like that, it seems like "of course" but there are elements (like the deep breaths to reset your energy--that's where I falter, and congratulating yourself) that make all the difference that I never would've thought of. This is very timely for me.
ReplyDeletei read this after i just punished myself for going to cold stone by eating popcorn, choco covered raisins and gummy butterflies. oops!
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