Disrupt: Patterns

Does this sound familiar?

You have a charged conversation with someone. Then, you play it back in your mind. Perhaps you will relay the conversation in whole or in part to friend or two. Later, more replaying of the conversation. Then, just maybe, you get into another conversation with the original person that resembles the first.

Sometimes we can fall into a conversational loop. It doesn't have to be a charged conversation, sometimes we just end up in the same conversation with a friend or acquaintance (over and over again). These loops are not only thinking traps but they are actually rehearsals. You are reenforcing a set of responses in your brain,

The only way to move forward is to disrupt the loop. So this week, whenever a conversation leaves you feeling upset or like you have deja vu, insert an interruption. Take a walk. Do a quick meditation, or 5 minute dance party. Anything but play back the recording. If you are really bothered by the conversation try journaling and then disrupt again.

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