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Hello. My name is Georgie Oldfield. I am a physiotherapist and the Founder of SIRPA Limited.
If you have come across this video, you probably already know I specialise in chronic pain,
but based on the concept that the majority of chronic pain is actually emotionally induced,
or stress induced due to the psycho-social factors in our lives. What people much often
do not recognise is just how much of our perceived stress is not just what is happening in our
lives but how we respond to it. In fact it is recognised that probably ninety percent
of our perceived stress is due to how we respond to what is happening in our lives.
Now that is all do to our habitual thinking patterns, our personality traits, our learned
behaviours. So this is what this series of videos is all about. It is looking at our
unhealthy habitual thought patterns and how we might be able to change those. Start making
a difference. Now habits just whether it is smoking whether
it is drinking whether it is the way we talk to ourselves. Maybe we are very overly analytical
or self critical or a perfectionist. All of these are habitual behaviours developed through
repetition often in early childhood but it can be later on as well if there is a lot
of repetition. So let us say you are very self critical or
a perfectionist. Maybe this developed through childhood when maybe the way you got most
attention from your parents was actually to be as good as possible and the better you
were, and the more successful you were in your school studies then the more attention
you got from your parents. So this might have been a learned way to get attention, but unfortunately
in later life it can actually cause you pressure because if you are constantly being self critical
and a perfectionist in order to have some reward in some way, and needing some attention
from somebody, it can cause a lot of pressure. So what we're looking at now, and I'm going
to encourage you in this video, to identify which personality traits, which sort of thought
patterns are actually creating stress for you. Okay, just have a think there, you can't
change anything until you actually know what is going on.
So just develop an awareness over the next few days of how you speak to yourself. How
do you create your own stress? Are you feeling very overly critical or do you tend to ruminate
a lot? Are you over analytical? Just develop an awareness of that because then we can move
on and actually look at the patterns and the triggers that you have in the next video.
So good luck with this, and I'll see you in the next video.