The reframing technique

Irrational ideas and cognitive components (what we think) greatly influence one's own capacity and change processes. Therefore, working on these points is very common in coaching, which involves learning to think rationally about how to see oneself, others and life in general.

Some techniques can be used to reframe negative beliefs in the process of change and neutralize cognitive distortions that limit or hinder the process.

For example: A person while waiting for his appointment with the nutritionist may think: "Nothing and nobody will be able to help me", or someone weighs himself after starting to include changes in his diet and notices that he has not lost even one kilo, he may think that he is a total failure, and this behavior may lead him to abandon the process of change.

The reframing technique consists of providing a person with a new framework to analyze their problem, allowing them to change their cognitive, perceptive and emotional point of view, discovering new possibilities that they could not see before.

It also allows them to get out of the blockages that impede the process of change. We interpret reality from a frame of reference and the same action can have different meanings for certain people. To generate a reframing is actually to generate a new way of interpreting things.

With a new frame of reference, the individual can perceive reality differently, act with a different profile, reinterpret what has happened, and deal with more favorable options. In short, this resource is used so that the individual "sees things differently", "takes into account other factors", "reframes the factors giving them a useful or favorable meaning".

It is possible to break schemes that have been operating since childhood. Of course, this does not mean denying everything and putting a filter on reality to see it all rosy, that would be to deny the problem and avoid facing it, it is about looking for a new approach, modifying the "internal maps", which widen the spaces for change.

After the reframing, it does not change the concrete facts, but the sense attributed to the situation. This is achieved through effective questions and starting from the client's subjectivity, making possible totally new points of view to the situation and that the client perceives it differently.

It is necessary to guide the client in the exercise of identifying, from his mental self-talk, the distortions and beliefs that provoke them, proposing him the challenge of "doubting them" and thus increasing self-efficacy beliefs.

Beliefs and cognitions are sometimes so deeply rooted and profound that people often do not even express them to themselves, nor are they aware of them. As soon as these cognitions begin to be confronted, the client will be able to develop alternative forms of be