How to increase mental flexibility

When people first come to yoga they tell me they aren’t flexible.

Physical flexibility is great because it helps us have more freedom in our movement and ease in our body. 

But mental flexibility is equally important and helps increase our resiliency. 

Mental flexibility is the ability to make a mental shift without remaining stuck in a particular mindset. 

From a mind-body perspective, the knees are the body part that speaks to our ability to be flexible, move and change directions in our life both physically and mentally. 

A flexible mindset moves us away from limiting thoughts and patterns to more openness and possibility. 

One place we often experience the most mental inflexibility is in relation to our beliefs. 

When we believe something our brain takes that to be part of our identity. 

Our brain is very attached to our identity so it will search out examples in the world that prove our beliefs to be true, while filtering out examples that challenge that belief. 

Our world is not actually created by the things outside of us, it is created by our internal thoughts and what we believe to be true about the world around us. 

For example, I recently was told that someone never orders from Amazon because they believe the order will always be wrong. And sure enough, anytime she does order she receives products with missing parts, improperly packed ones that arrive damaged and ones that simply just never show up at all. 

Maybe you have beliefs you want to change.

Beliefs that are harmful or unhealthy. 

Beliefs that are limiting you or creating what you don’t want in your life. 

Maybe you know what you would LIKE to believe, but you’re struggling to get your brain on board, especially when you have examples from your past that support the truth of that belief.

There is a trick that can help with that. 

This trick increases your mental flexibility by shifting your brain away from those limiting thoughts and being more open to getting on board with a new thought, idea and belief. 

Click below to learn this simple trick to increase your mental flexibility right now...