Interrupting Signature Patterns of Protection
Our survival brain loves a loop.
When we feel under threat the amygdala in our brain reacts and activates one of our Signature Patterns of Protection - to fix, to block, to react to self-blame.
When we intentionally pair a mindfulness tool with one of the five elements, we create a potent sensory pattern interrupter. This practice acts as a biological circuit breaker, effectively switching off the amygdala hijack—that primitive 'alarm' that floods our system with noise. By interrupting this survival loop, we invite our frontal lobe back online calming the physical body, shifting us from a state of 'survival' to a state of observation.
In this grounded space, we able to witness and process our emotionsso that we can listen to what it is they are telling us we need and then make a conscious choice and respond rather than activate our Signature Patterns of Protection.
Download one of our Serene Psychology Guided Meditations to help you step into this mindful state of observation and become your Highest Self - the best version of you.
Surrender to the process, switch off that survival mind, drop into your body and witness your subconscious truth today.
Your Serene Psychology Signature Pattern Profile Map (Part One) Interpretations
Healing hurts.
Holding onto past pain and old stories that no longer serve us hurts.
Revealing our signature patterns gives us choice to keep hurting or start living more freely.
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The Serene Psychology Signature Patterns Profile Map (Part One)
The Serene Psychology Signature Patterns Profile Map (SPSPPM) is a gentle, insight-building questionnaire series designed to help you identify your dominant signature patterns that influence how you think, feel, and respond. It explores subconscious schemas, emotional reactions, protection styles, and the stories we may carry without realising. By bringing these inner patterns into awareness, the SPSPPM offers a clearer understanding of what is helping you — and what may be quietly holding you back. With this awareness, you’re better able to choose new ways of thinking and responding that feel more aligned with who you want to be.
Variances in emotional expression: Preventing emotional explosions
Do you tend to find yourself in a cycle where everything is ok and then suddenly everything is not ok and you’re crying or emotionally erupting at the slightest inconvenience? If so you are not alone!
Becoming my ideal self: Re-training the brain to emulate the person we want to be
Our survival brain doesn’t have us reliving the positive moments in our life, it has us ruminating on the pain of the past and worrying about what my go wrong in the future and it does this to try and keep us safe and alive but…
“When you contemplate the nature of self, you are meditating”
Often when we are stressed we work harder and longer rather than giving ourselves permission to rest and recharge. Many people don’t know …
Setting Goals and Intentions
Our survival brain prefers the familiar or what has kept us alive so we often operate on autopilot for most of our day which is so hard to break free from habits that no longer serve us.
Why does this keep happening to me?! Learning to witness our truth and find freedom from unhelpful emotional & behaivoural patterns.
Our life schedule often doesn’t permit time for emotional processing, often we are running from one thing to the next or not in the right place to be able to let the mask fall and feel what we need to feel.
Learning to trust our gut, live more intuitively and commit to self
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am”. Albert Einstein
Why do I people please and how can I stop?
Helping people can make us feel really great but if we get caught in the cycle of saying yes to everyone and everything we can end up over extending ourselves and at times feeling frustrated that we have said yes to something that wasn’t in our own best interests.
Anxious and can’t think and can’t think because I am anxious!
We need stress in our lives to get things done. Our body releases the stress chemical cortisol which peaks 30minutes after awakening,
Depressed because I am lazy and lazy because I am depressed
The symptoms of depression and anxiety work to maintain the illness but what if rather than giving into these symptoms and criticising yourself for being “lazy” you actually listened to your bodies need for rest and how much fuel you have in the tank so to speak?
Calming your mind, body and emotional state
We can shift or reduce the frequency of any heavy emotions simply by giving ourselves greater opportunities to experience moments of neutrality.
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