Behavior patterns

Behavior patterns are repetitive ways of reacting, choosing, and acting in specific situations.

Definition

Behavior patterns are created by learning, reinforcement, environment, relationships, emotions, and history of experience. They can be helpful when they automate good actions, or harmful when they perpetuate avoidance, conflict, overload, or self-sabotage. Changing a pattern requires recognizing the stimulus, response, and consequence.

Key ideas

Missing key ideas.

Practice and life

For a week, observe one pattern: when it starts, what you do, and what happens after it. Don't change it right away, see the mechanism first.

Common misunderstanding

It is a mistake to say "this is how I am" about every role model. It is also a mistake to try to change without recognizing the triggering situation.

Questions for self-reflection

No questions for self-reflection.

Sources

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