Re-frame a negative belief with your own values
When you have a negative belief try re-framing it with some of your values in life. For example with a belief such as ‘I’ll never be able to learn Japanese’, you could say something like - It looks like it is important for you to learn a language? You must value people who speak a second language. Do you also value the time it takes to learn a language and the dedication and commitment required? Which do you feel you should concentrate more on to be true to yourself?
Do you think it would be better to spend time saying you won’t be able to learn Japanese or instead spend time actually listening to audio tapes and reading books about the Japanese language?
So you do care about learning a language, with this in mind can you think of ways that you will be able to learn Japanese?
Some questions you may want to ask yourself:
- What are some of your higher criteria or values?
- What would happen if you applied your higher values and principles to the negative belief?
- Which of your values would prove useful to apply on this belief?
- What values would qualify your negative belief in such a way as to make it much less limiting?

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