Recognizing your patterns

Humans are creatures of habit and this involves following patterns. Our behavior consists of patterns and once you can recognize these, you can alter the thinking and behavioral process

Patterns involve repetition and are commonly an automatic response or an individual habit, which can make it difficult to recognize

Behavioral and emotional patterns are important to understand, they allow you to explore your thought process and allow you to understand your behaviors, triggers and both your toxic and positive traits

Patterns in Behavior

Can you recognize your good qualities and bad qualities? Can you differentiate your normal behaviors from abnormal ones?

Personal Behaviors follow a pattern, our reaction and responses, our coping mechanisms and our attitudes. It is important to note how important these patterns are and how they can excel or harm your situation.

Is there a phrase or person that gets under your skin? This is a trigger. If you explore the reasons attached to this trigger, you will often find an emotional pattern that is attached to a core belief or situation that has impacted you in a certain way.

Another example is your coping mechanism. These consist of patterns of self-care or defenses in place to protect yourself. If you understand your patterns, you can recognize if a behavior is helpful or if it prohibits growth. For example, if you are run down and stay in bed for a day to recharge, you can identify this as self-care. But if you constantly stay in bed to ignore emotions and reality. You can recognize this pattern as a problem

Reflecting on these behaviors allow you to know which aspects of yourself influence growth both negatively and positively.

How to Recognize Patterns

• Understand the root causes of your psychological behavior patterns

• Become more conscious of how childhood conditions impacts your mental and physical health

• Develop positive behavior patterns that improve your well-being

Any of the following points can be used to recognize the pattern more clearly:

• Shifts in the body, Emotional state or perception of things

• A repeated chain of reactive emotions

• The way patterns project a world familiar automatic emotions - Physical, Verbal and Mental

• Familiar results, such as how your relationship with others are affected

• A divergence between your intentions and what actually happens