Understanding Your Programming series
Where do the thoughts and beliefs we carry about ourselves actually come from?
In Episode 007, we discovered that programming creates beliefs. But that raises another important question: how does that programming get there in the first place?
In this episode of Growing Plants, Growing People, Kristian and Daniel explore how the messages we receive, the experiences we have, the conclusions we reach and the things we repeatedly say to ourselves can gradually become part of our programming.
Using the idea of the mind as a filing cabinet, Daniel explains how new information doesn't necessarily arrive in isolation. We often make sense of what is happening today through information and experiences that are already stored.
Kristian brings this idea to life through her own experience of learning plant identification. Beginning with twenty plants a week at horticultural college and continuing through more than forty years in horticulture, her ever-growing mental “filing cabinet” demonstrates how new information connects with what we already know — and why the filing cabinet is never finished.
In this episode, you'll discover:
You'll also be invited to listen more closely to some of the phrases you use to describe yourself:
“I've always been…”
“I'm no good at…”
“I never…”
“That's just the way I am.”
Not to judge them. Not even to change them yet.
Simply to become curious about where they came from.
Because the filing cabinet is never finished — and what is already in there may not have to be the end of the story.
Your Free Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Foundation Workbook
If today's conversation has encouraged you to think more deeply about the programming you may have picked up along the way, our Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Foundation Workbook will help you continue that exploration.
Throughout the first six episodes of Growing Plants, Growing People, we created an individual reflective worksheet to accompany each conversation. Those six worksheets have now been brought together into one free resource — the Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Foundation Workbook.
It's designed to help you take the conversations we've been having beyond the podcast and give you space to pause, reflect and explore how those ideas relate to your own life.
Whether you've been listening from Episode 001 or have only just discovered Growing Plants, Growing People, the Reflective Foundation Workbook gives you a place to begin and allows you to work through those foundation conversations at your own pace.
Get your free Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Foundation Workbook here:
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Try the Self-Talk App Free for 30 Days
If you'd like to take what we've been exploring in the podcast and begin putting Self-Talk into practice for yourself, we'd like to invite you to try the Self-Talk Plus App.
As a listener to Growing Plants, Growing People, you can try the app free for 30 days.
But we also know that downloading an app and knowing how to make the best use of it are two different things.
That's why we've created something specifically for our listeners — the Growing Plants, Growing People Listener's Guide to the Self-Talk App.
It's designed to help you get started, understand how to begin using Self-Talk and make those first 30 days something you can actually explore and experience for yourself.
Throughout the podcast, we'll continue exploring why the conversations we have with ourselves matter. The Self-Talk App gives you an opportunity to begin experiencing Self-Talk for yourself.
Download your Growing Plants, Growing People Listener's Guide to the Self-Talk App and Start your free 30-day Self-Talk App trial here:
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Next Time on Growing Plants, Growing People
If our brains can become programmed through what they learn and experience, an important question follows:
Can they also change?
In Episode 009 – Neuroplasticity Explained - we'll explore the brain's ability to change and adapt — and what that could mean for the programming we've been carrying with us.
If our minds can learn programmes…
…perhaps what they've already learned doesn't have to be the end of the story.
