Rewrite a limiting belief into one that works for you.
Length: 1:37
Voice: Ralph Varcoe
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Reframing Beliefs is the second half of the work you started in Limiting Beliefs. You take each belief and write a new one against it. Then you rate how strongly the new belief sits with you on a scale of one to ten, and every rating is stored as you set it. So you can watch the belief actually move, rather than trusting your memory of how you felt a few months ago.
The technique is cognitive restructuring, from Aaron Beck's work and from David Burns, whose book Feeling Good put it in front of millions of people in 1980.
One thing matters more than anything else here. The reframe has to be believable. Turning 'I'm terrible at presenting' into 'I am a world-class speaker' will score a two and stay there, because you do not believe it, and pretending doesn't help. 'I have presented badly before, and I have also presented well, and I get better when I prepare properly' will score a six. A six you believe changes your behaviour. A ten you do not believe changes nothing.
Aim for true and slightly kinder. Then say it again when the old one shows up.
The same beliefs appear here as in the other two beliefs tools, so the work carries across without you having to retype anything. And then you should rate them again in a month and see how things have changed.