During the course of our personal development we encountered situations which had a great influence on our way of thinking and the formation of mental pathways. Responses to events perhaps once useful and the best choice we had at that time under the circumstances are no longer useful today. When we keep these obsolete mental patterns alive and still operate from them they become road blocks and limitations for us. We can call them limiting beliefs. Since we were able to build and originate them we are also quite capable of removing them again.

One of these limiting beliefs and mental dynamic is “worst case scenario thinking”. Some of you may claim I am a realist and this is a good way to be prepared for these negative events. In the process we operate unconsciously from certain perceptional filters and we are run by them on autopilot. It’s common for many of us to create inauthentic fears about future events which never may realize. But these negative mental future representations can take on a life of their own and become very real. While worst case scenario considerations can be useful in planning stages, but are quite limiting to our personal development when they take the form of mental patterns.

Have you ever asked yourself what’s the impact on our behavior when we give in to these mental processes without getting a handle on it? What’s the real cost to our well being, to our generative powers, our relationships and our work environment?

Let’s ask another fundamental question:

How do we determine which of our perceptions are being selected for attention? We take in a vast array of sensory data every day and make nonstop meaning of it. While we have many possible ways to internally process and interpret – we chose unconsciously certain pathways and apply perceptional filters (which become habitual ways of thinking). In that process we generalize, delete and distort portions of our experience. In my coaching session I will guide you to bringing light to these processes and shifting them into the realm of awareness. There are several ways to deal with them. One of them are NLP techniques (Neuro Linguistic Programming) which we can use to undertake significant changes to our “internal wiring” and therefore creating free space for new possibilities.