The Keys - Part One
21 Keys is a professional workshop that my school district strongly believes in. Every teacher in our district gets this training in their second year. I am fortunate enough to be part of this district and have the opportunity for personal and professional growth. 21 Keys is put out by the Pacific Institute and written by Lou Tice. This is my interpretation of the keys and how they can help me change my life.
Key One
Conditioning and Perception
Noise from the past shapes your perception of the present. STOP THE NOISE
We behave and act not in accordance with the truth but how we believe.
Our conditioning creates a sensory that blocks information out of your environment. Lou Tice calls this our scotoma. The problem with scotoma (blind spots) is we don't know where they are and when we can't perceive something we make it wrong. This is part of our conditioning.
One of my blind spots is my self worth. My experiences have given me a lot of doubt and fear. I've been conditioned to think my passions are stupid. Because of this, trusting myself has been my biggest obstacle. I have had ideas that I dismiss. I don't believe they can become reality. I have been blind to my own possibilities. I have worked twice as hard as most people I know to continuously prove to myself I can do it, whatever it may be.
Break the conditioning. Change my perception and believe in my own abilities.
Key Two
Being a careful listener and recognizing my self talk
Starting the day with positive affirmations propels your thoughts into a positive and productive path. If I listen to my fall back, routine, conditioned self talk, I can tart to change it. Being a good listener means to hear when I say or even think about road blocks even as simple as I am tired. If I change it in that moment to "I am energized" I begin to change my habits, conditioning and cellular body.
Be around conversations that match the direction you want to go. Being around negative talk will perpetuate my own negative talk. Remove, reject negative affirmations. Being a careful listener will help you identify your sensory blockers.
Carefully listen to your self talk and redirect it.
Key Three
Lock-on/Lock-out
For this key I have to quote Lou Tice "You behave like the person you believe yourself to be" and
"You automatically lock-out other options when you lock-on to one way of thinking". I understand this as lock-on/lock-out stops you from finding new solutions, staying in the cycle, doing what you've always done and getting what you've always gotten. In my life I have locked onto the thought that what other people choose somehow affects me. If I consider you close to me and you do something I don't agree with I take it as if you have done this to me. I have limited myself I all of my relationships because I have inserted my beliefs into their choices and I convinced myself to be hurt by them.
Be open to finding a new way.
Key Four
Reticular Activating System RAS
"You change the way you think, you change the ay you run your life." When you close yourself off to new ways you create limits. Your RAS is the part of your brain that filters out information particularly the information your perceive as not important. If you perceive it as not important you often don't even notice that the information is there. Lou gives the example of reading information a few times, going back because you don't know what you just read. He says this is because you don't know what your looking for. This key is about setting a goal and allowing the information to get in.
Know what your looking for.
Key Five
Conscious, subconscious and creative subconscious
This is about how the mind works and it couldn't come at a better time. My mind today is trying to break into old habits. Why do I continue to act they way I believe myself to be instead of who I want to be? The conditioning of my self-image, the great I AM is the answer. I can get better on the outside until I change the inside perspective. Am I a women with bi-polar disorder? Am I a women who suffers from trauma and PTSD? Or Am I women who once faced adversity and overcame them all to LIVE happily ever after? What happens when we declare HAPPILY EVER AFTER? What quality of information will I allow in? It's like doing your research before believing the propaganda. The information I seek and allow in is what will create the change I want to be in the world.
Change the inside first.
Key Six
Creative Genius
How do I receive love and what do I keep creating to receive the way I always have? This is another reason why I have to go back to the beginning. What happened early on that created a misinterpretation of what love is? Well there was the sexual abuse that I have spent many pages writing about. While the most dramatic was the physical sexual abuse it may not have been the most traumatic. I think the way it was dismissed and the way it was hidden and ignored was the most traumatic. It created a feeling of loneliness in my home a drove me to seek out the only attention I knew, the sexual attention. How does my soul after nurture feel love? What is the true nature of how I receive love? Who was I before the abuse? What do I need to create to attract love in a healthy way? I need to allow myself the love I deserve not the love I have been conditioned to think I deserve.
Allow myself to win.
Key Seven
Building the Change
"Habits are learned behavior and can be unlearned' -Tice
Habits that work today need to evolve to match tomorrow's hero. I will adjust the attitude on an ongoing basis. Check my thinking moment by moment. Is my action taking me toward the goal or is it taking me away from it. I have viewed my goals as a public competition and have had a negative need to "prove myself". I believed if I failed it would hurt and therefore I have not moved toward my goals. I need to refocus, the competition should only be with myself, to be better than yesterday.
Be mindful in the moment and create new habits.
Key One
Conditioning and Perception
Noise from the past shapes your perception of the present. STOP THE NOISE
We behave and act not in accordance with the truth but how we believe.
Our conditioning creates a sensory that blocks information out of your environment. Lou Tice calls this our scotoma. The problem with scotoma (blind spots) is we don't know where they are and when we can't perceive something we make it wrong. This is part of our conditioning.
One of my blind spots is my self worth. My experiences have given me a lot of doubt and fear. I've been conditioned to think my passions are stupid. Because of this, trusting myself has been my biggest obstacle. I have had ideas that I dismiss. I don't believe they can become reality. I have been blind to my own possibilities. I have worked twice as hard as most people I know to continuously prove to myself I can do it, whatever it may be.
Break the conditioning. Change my perception and believe in my own abilities.
Key Two
Being a careful listener and recognizing my self talk
Starting the day with positive affirmations propels your thoughts into a positive and productive path. If I listen to my fall back, routine, conditioned self talk, I can tart to change it. Being a good listener means to hear when I say or even think about road blocks even as simple as I am tired. If I change it in that moment to "I am energized" I begin to change my habits, conditioning and cellular body.
Be around conversations that match the direction you want to go. Being around negative talk will perpetuate my own negative talk. Remove, reject negative affirmations. Being a careful listener will help you identify your sensory blockers.
Carefully listen to your self talk and redirect it.
Key Three
Lock-on/Lock-out
For this key I have to quote Lou Tice "You behave like the person you believe yourself to be" and
"You automatically lock-out other options when you lock-on to one way of thinking". I understand this as lock-on/lock-out stops you from finding new solutions, staying in the cycle, doing what you've always done and getting what you've always gotten. In my life I have locked onto the thought that what other people choose somehow affects me. If I consider you close to me and you do something I don't agree with I take it as if you have done this to me. I have limited myself I all of my relationships because I have inserted my beliefs into their choices and I convinced myself to be hurt by them.
Be open to finding a new way.
Key Four
Reticular Activating System RAS
"You change the way you think, you change the ay you run your life." When you close yourself off to new ways you create limits. Your RAS is the part of your brain that filters out information particularly the information your perceive as not important. If you perceive it as not important you often don't even notice that the information is there. Lou gives the example of reading information a few times, going back because you don't know what you just read. He says this is because you don't know what your looking for. This key is about setting a goal and allowing the information to get in.
Know what your looking for.
Key Five
Conscious, subconscious and creative subconscious
This is about how the mind works and it couldn't come at a better time. My mind today is trying to break into old habits. Why do I continue to act they way I believe myself to be instead of who I want to be? The conditioning of my self-image, the great I AM is the answer. I can get better on the outside until I change the inside perspective. Am I a women with bi-polar disorder? Am I a women who suffers from trauma and PTSD? Or Am I women who once faced adversity and overcame them all to LIVE happily ever after? What happens when we declare HAPPILY EVER AFTER? What quality of information will I allow in? It's like doing your research before believing the propaganda. The information I seek and allow in is what will create the change I want to be in the world.
Change the inside first.
Key Six
Creative Genius
How do I receive love and what do I keep creating to receive the way I always have? This is another reason why I have to go back to the beginning. What happened early on that created a misinterpretation of what love is? Well there was the sexual abuse that I have spent many pages writing about. While the most dramatic was the physical sexual abuse it may not have been the most traumatic. I think the way it was dismissed and the way it was hidden and ignored was the most traumatic. It created a feeling of loneliness in my home a drove me to seek out the only attention I knew, the sexual attention. How does my soul after nurture feel love? What is the true nature of how I receive love? Who was I before the abuse? What do I need to create to attract love in a healthy way? I need to allow myself the love I deserve not the love I have been conditioned to think I deserve.
Allow myself to win.
Key Seven
Building the Change
"Habits are learned behavior and can be unlearned' -Tice
Habits that work today need to evolve to match tomorrow's hero. I will adjust the attitude on an ongoing basis. Check my thinking moment by moment. Is my action taking me toward the goal or is it taking me away from it. I have viewed my goals as a public competition and have had a negative need to "prove myself". I believed if I failed it would hurt and therefore I have not moved toward my goals. I need to refocus, the competition should only be with myself, to be better than yesterday.
Be mindful in the moment and create new habits.
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