What does COVID mean for you? | NLP, COVID & Personal Responsibility

What does COVID mean for you?  Since the meaning you give to the events in the world determine how you respond to them this is probably a much more important question than you might have originally thought.

Try these frames of mind for just a moment: 

• “COVID is traumatic.”
• “COVID is a tragedy.”  
• “People are victims of COVID.”

How do these beliefs feel?

Probably not very empowering. In fact, you probably would experience those “beliefs” as quite disempowering!

Our perception plays such an important role in our life experience. Would you like to learn new ways to have more control over your perceptions?

Let’s start out with a fact…

There are things in the world that happen that are out of your control: 

• We can lose our job.
• We can invest in a stock or business and can suddenly lose a lot of money.
• Our loved ones can get sick or injured.
• Loved ones pass away.
• We can get sick or injured ourselves.
• The list goes on…

Many things occur in the world that are out of our control, but our perceptions of those events can be.

In other words, things happen but our responses to those events is our response-ability.

Our abilities to respond includes how we think about those events, what memories we re-mind ourselves of and reference, how we language them, how we imagine the future will play out, and how we emote. 

All of these responses are our response-abilities and the perceptions you bring to the circumstances can either limit you or unleash your potential to respond effectively.

Yes, things we don’t like happen but building in a resilient attitude and finding more resilient ways of framing things is what will empower us to transcend them.

Sure, “COVID is traumatic” is one way of looking at things but can you generate 20 other ways of looking at it?

• COVID is an opportunity for me to bounce back and practice building resilience.
• COVID is an opportunity for us to see the way that the universe/God is supporting us to change/grow.
• COVID is an opportunity for me to build a new business.
• COVID is an opportunity to make my brick and mortar business into an online business to reach much more people online.
• COVID is an opportunity for me to face death head on to learn to accept the realities of life.
• The list goes on…

When we try on different ways of perceiving the situations of our life all of the sudden we are not a victim anymore but we put ourselves at cause for our responses.

Finding more resourceful ways of framing things, running your own mind, and communicating about the situations you encounter will not only empower you to respond to the situations that are out of your control effectively but it will show others how to do this for themselves as well.  So I wonder what could COVID mean for you?

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