Reframing

We live in a subjective reality. The things and events in the world around us have no meaning, themselves. Things have meaning because we attach meaning to them. We can change the meaning of nearly anything at the unconscious level using Reframing.

The purpose of Reframing is to separate intention from behavior. In this first group of pictures, we see what looks like a brute, terrorizing a young lady.

However, in this second group of photos, viewed in a different context (frame size), we clearly see a hero.

Theory

If you change the context, meaning or content of any situation, you change the meaning.

The two major kinds of reframes that we learn at the Practitioner level are the Context Reframe and the Meaning Reframe.

The basis of reframing is to separate intention from behavior.

Context Reframe: Works best on CEq - "I'm too...", "You are...", "That means..."
Ask yourself, "What else could this behavior mean?" or internally think of an opposite frame or a different meaning. "What is it that this person hasn't noticed (in this context that will bring about a different meaning, and change his response?"
Meaning Reframe: Works best on C>E - "Whenever X happens, I Y", "If you..., then you..."
Ask yourself, "What else could this behavior mean?" or internally think of an opposite frame or a different meaning. "What is it that this person hasn't noticed (in this context that will bring about a different meaning, and change his response?"

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