‘Cognitive therapy’ is based on the simple idea that your thoughts and attitudes – and not external events – create your moods’.
David Burns (The Feeling Good Handbook )
This key principle is so important to change how you feel.
Cognitive therapy is based on the concept that the way we think about things affects how we feel which also affects what we do.
Here is an example. Two people sitting next to each other on a plane. One is calm, sitting and reading, enjoying the flight. The other one, terrified because he believes is in danger, is suffering from palpitations and can’t sit still.
The same situation but two totally different reactions.
Our thoughts about the situation are more important than the situation itself.
Different types of distorted thinking can make us feel worse.
See the course above for the distorted thinking patterns.
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