#cognitive reframing

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

#cognitive reframing #neutrality #practice self neutrality #if self love isn’t available #yet #doodles #bad art #lousy drawings #doodle #positivity #self love #healing #recovery

[itsyagender]

That's it. My intrusive thoughts are now xbox live insults. Go to bed timmy it's 8pm

#mental illness #cognitive reframing #lmao #funny

[livingwellnessblog]

Revision: Neville Goddard's Approach

Neville Goddard's technique of revision offers a practical way to reframe, forgive, forget or heal past events and promote a new vision for ourselves. Envision and imagine, a different starting point, by revision.

Revision: Neville Goddard’s Approach Neville Goddard’s technique of revision offers a practical way to reframe, forgive, forget or heal past events and promote a new vision for ourselves. Envision and imagine, a different starting point, by revision. A Practical Overview Revision allows us to revisit past events and modify them to match our desired outcomes. It’s about choosing the emotional…

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#belief transformation #best law of assumption coach #changing beliefs #changing emotions #choosing optimism #choosing positivity #cognitive reframing #conscious choice #Conscious Living #conscious mindset #conscious reevaluation #constructive mindset #constructive thinking #creating a better future #creating a positive present #creating change #cultivating positivity #Emotional growth #emotional healing #Emotional health #Emotional Intelligence #emotional response #Emotional Transformation #Emotional well-being #empowering beliefs #empowerment #fostering positivity #growth and mindset #Growth Mindset #improving life outlook

[petiolata]

Reframing:

Original thought: I have to go to the doctor tomorrow, that is stressful and inconvenient

Reframe: I get to get this required medical appointment out of the way. After tomorrow I will no longer have to worry about it!

#cognitive restructuring #cognitive reframing #cognitive behavioral therapy #mental health #depression #op #personal #overall im very critical of cog therapy esp for ppl w/ CPTSD but I'll still pick out the parts that work a little and use them

[zylerkade]

Focus is Feeling: Forcing Your Subconscious to Change Your Reality

Have you ever noticed that when you're in a bad mood, everything around you seems to be negative? But on the other hand, when you're feeling great, everything around you seems to be positive and full of possibilities? Start using it to your advantage.

Is it possible to change your reality? What is reality, anyway? Have you ever noticed that when you’re in a bad mood, everything around you seems to be negative? The people, the weather, even the traffic – it all seems to be conspiring against you. But on the other hand, when you’re feeling great, everything around you seems to be positive and full of possibilities. This is because, as Tony…

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#attention bias #attention training #Baader-Meinhof phenomenon #belief system #change your reality #cognitive dissonance #cognitive reframing #confirmation bias #conscious awareness #emotional intelligence #frequency illusion #habit change #intentional living #law of attraction #life mastery #meditation #mental conditioning #mental filters #mental resilience #mindfulness practices #mindset transformation #neuroplasticity #perception management #personal growth #perspective shift #positive thinking #present moment awareness #psychological triggers #reality creation #selective attention

[relativeimperfection]

#Cognitive reframing

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

#cognitive reframing #cognitive behavioral therapy #you are not your thoughts #feelings aren’t facts #doodles #bad art #lousy drawings #doodle #positivity #self love #healing #recovery

[futilechildhooddream]

so for opposite-action therapy the recommendation is to do the opposite of the emotion, like where depression wants you to isolate so it can be helpful to go out and see people

for all-or-nothing behavior, the opposite action is finding the middle ground

want to avoid the problem or pull an all nighter to address it? start the work and set it up for future you to have an easier time, and get some sleep

i find a similar thing works for “shoulds”. The opposite of should is action:

i should do laundry -> i want to do laundry (or have it done with) so I’ll do the first step of this action (getting up/gathering dirty clothes/setting a timer/sitting in the laundry room/insert action)

i should be studying -> i am resting (or set a timer til time to study/plan a meeting time for study group/open the study materials/set a five minute timer and see what you can learn in that time/text a friend what you’re learning about in class and explain it to them)

opposite action can be really helpful

#opposite action #therapy #cognitive distortions #reframing #executive dysfunction #mental health

[skyler10fic]

Rewiring: uncover the "why"

A difficult thing in trying to rewire negative self-talk is that we don't want to be ignorant of reality. "Let go of thoughts that are no longer serving you," the helpers say, but we have this fear that if we let go, we will be caught out again as we once were, unaware of how [insert negative thought here] we came off to others. The shame moment. The moment someone pointed out or we realized ourselves that we were Bad or Defective or Embarrassing in some way. Worthy of shame and ridicule. Maybe we even still hear the laughter or the looks of disgust or the tone of voice that pitied us, "oh. Oh. You don't know. You're [insert word here]."

And that identity-shaping ghost haunts us into adulthood, years or decades even later. Letting go of that self-talk is a risk, because it was a defense mechanism. We need to be aware, we need to be informed, we need to be in on the joke... so no one can surprise us with that pain again.

So we walk around into our 20s and 30s and 40s and older and older with that one person or group or community's voice in our heads as the one true self-assessment of our identity. All the while, we're changing and growing and evolving into different people ourselves, and it may not have been accurate in the first place.

But "just stop thinking that" will never get us there, not until we and our helpers become trauma-informed to root out that defense mechanism and thank it for protecting us but, with respect, we don't need it anymore.

Like KonMari for our brains, we don't just recognize that it doesn't give us joy, we don't just realize it isn't serving us anymore, but we recognize in gratitude the role it played to keep us safe once. Even as we clean it out, dispose of it, and close the bag so it doesn't end up back in our minds.

Healing comes through empathy and gentleness and self-compassion, but that isn't solely others-focused or a regimen or strict cognitive-behavioral discipline. It's respecting our past selves' logic and needs and dignity. Even as we form healthier patterns and ways of moving through our thoughts and emotions and, externally, through our community and world today and in the future.

#mental health #cognitive rewiring #negative self-talk #reframing #anti-cbt #anxiety #mental wellness #self-compassion #depression

[caesarsaladinn]

that George Carlin bit that goes (to paraphrase) "I don't understand the obsession with motivation books. if you care enough to buy the book to get motivated to do something, that means you care enough to be motivated! skip the book and go do the thing already!" is really very useful

#doesn't always work but it's surprisingly effective at reframing the executive dysfunction and getting me off my ass #i want to want something? that means i want it! (or at least should do some hard thinking about it.) higher order cognitive functions ftw

[nofeelingsarefinal]

we all have good thoughts, bad thoughts, sexy thoughts, useful thoughts, and useless thoughts. but don’t forget this helpful banger of a wisdom: you are not your thoughts, but the thinker of your thoughts. you can CHOOSE which thoughts to believe in and eventually your thoughts will end up believing you too 🤯 click the link to figure out how to do so.

#thoughts #mythoughts #therapy #reframe #cognitive restructuring #reframing #cognitive distortions

[aeide-thea]

unfortunately i am thinking, yet again, about how much people love to look at a shitty thing someone did/said and respond to that with some combination of

(1) framing the act as intrinsically connected to some other aspect of their identity that's marginalized, and therefore easy to activate people's prejudices about: 'karen,' 'narcissistic abuse,' etc.

(2) framing the act as negating some other marginalized aspect of their identity, because they've done something Oppressive so they're no longer entitled to any Victim Points: 'h*rry styles said something stupid and homophobic so obviously we, the Queer Police, were right all along and he's just been presenting gnc for clout...' newsflash, having internalized dumb queerphobic shit doesn't actually rule out yr being at least glancingly in its crosshairs!¹ we're all swimming in deeply toxic waters and sometimes we regurgitate some shit even when it's poisonous to us, too! like: policing the borders of queerness; respectability politics generally.

(3) framing the act as rendering some other marginalized aspect of their identity problematic/suspect: we all understood the concepts of queer time, trans extended/delayed/repeated adolescence, &c, just fine, and (at least nominally) sympathized with those things as being the product of alienation from a queerphobic society and its (cishetero)normative definitions of adulthood, until someone became a pariah who self-described as a 'boy' despite not being a minor—like, whatever you think of the m*rdoll situation, the way people immediately turned around and were like 'wow, this trans person's identity is actually intrinsically an attempt to avoid accountability' really sucked to hear. like, xie was pretty clearly trying to avoid public accountability; we can condemn that without jumping to assert that actually xer expression of gender was (i) intrinsically bound up in that attempt and (ii) fake. plenty of transmasc+ ppl lay claim to 'boy' but not 'man' despite being adults, for a variety of complex reasons, and it's not inherently an attempt to duck out of one's moral responsibilities.²

and (4) a kind of almost-metonymic conflation of the person with the act, such that people condemn them both in a single breath, while effectively letting the systemic conditions off the hook because their viewfinder is too zoomed-in to include them; as a result, once the person's been discarded, so too has the topic. like. i haven't heard a peep out of anyone on here about the evils of complicity with the military-industrial complex since the m*rdoll discourse subsided, even though a few weeks ago it was supposedly unthinkably obscene not to be actively impassioned about that. and it is unthinkably obscene! but it's an unthinkable obscenity that we all seem to be perfectly comfortable resuming our silence on, now that we've cast out our scapegoat. i saw a twitter thread the other day, on the topic of hunter sch*fer's cosigning of transmedicalism, that really struck me because it explicitly concluded by saying, 'addressing this is far more important than cancelling a young trans woman,' and i was really struck by that focus bc it's so real and so fucking rare. like. hunter sch*fer will hopefully learn and grow and stop thinking 'no nb ppl want to transition and that's why transphobia exists.' ana m*rdoll will hopefully get a different job and stop grifting from credulous twitterqueers. and neither of these individuals' personal arcs, whatever course they ultimately take, will have any real impact on the systemic injustices they've respectively supported; and neither will we, because we've stopped talking about them: because we were never really talking about them in the first place.

⸻ ¹ i haven't actually read up on the latest hstyles nonsense but like. sounds like he said something quite stupid that if you press on it even a little starts oozing homophobia; and it's still true that he's been pushing the boundaries of normatively acceptable men's fashion for a long time now and that the history of musicians doing this has yet to render it hegemonically endorsed. like obviously it gets complex bc at some level being a performer is intrinsically kind of femme-coded (a phrase i truly cannot believe i typed but. it's strutting yr stuff in the hope of attracting social and financial validation. what would you call it.) so you can start to construct arguments abt gender non-conformity in male entertainers being, like, a way of rendering themselves more objectifiable and increasing their appeal to audiences; but honestly i kind of think that's brainrot. like. many many straight women are in fact uncomfortable with male queerness, making it a decidedly dubious strategy for winning over the public at large. do we have to link that post again abt how not everyone is from NYC.

² i mean i do also separately think the, like, legalistic minor-adult moral binary where we're like, 'minors are maybe forgivable, adults aren't' is. weird. it's a sliding scale and adults can atone and minors can do deeply fucked up shit they need to be held accountable for. everything is a spectrum and requires a more complex analysis than this whole Good/Bad. Child/Adult. Not Responsible/Not Redeemable. set of reductive binaries we seem to love so much. ultimately i think we probably ought to offer more adults the sort of corrective compassion we aspire to offer children, that's less focused on dead-end condemnation and more on how to do better going forward.

#also none of these strategies are mutually exclusive and you often see them combined #i'm just roughing out a set of lenses for my own analytical toolkit #anyway i've been staring at this too long and it could probs use another editing pass but i wanna let it go so. #as ever‚ open to thoughtful good-faith pushback! #also sorry so much of this is in unreadably tiny footnotes. may reexamine my formatting choices after some sleep. #ok i have no idea what organizational tags i have that are relevant here #theory #possibly also 'useful reframings' but usually that one is abt‚ like‚ undoing yr own cognitive distortions for greater self-esteem #whereas this is more like. uncoupling bad behavior from yr own bigotry for greater justice #or something #anyway i'm definitely too brainclogged to accomplish anything more that's useful here

[truths89]

Spell: 003

The mind, I rescue.

The thoughts are of the wrong venue; For liberation is on the menu.

#truths89 #poetry #zisa aziza #negressofsaturn #spirituality #healing #cognitive distortions #reframing #honesty #radical acceptance #frequency #black art #queer art #black sobriety

[resiliencewithin]

✖️Instead of…

You had the time and energy to work more today. You have a deadline to meet. Report cards are looming. You should have worked more.

✔️ Let’s try…

You also have a duty to yourself to not exhaust all your energy every day. You know what happens when you do— burnout. You weren’t designed to push past your limits every day. The measure of having done enough is NOT the inability to do more. You’re allowed to stop before that point. You should stop before that point more often than not. You worked a reasonable amount. Besides, there are still 15 days to go before the first deadline. You’re not going to do more tonight, so thinking/worrying/spiralling about it isn’t going to do anything other than harm you. Own your choice and trust your future self.

#mental health #mental illness #anxiety #cognitive behavioral therapy #thought reframing #time to move on to distraction #new book time!

[petiolata]

having really really good hair is a comfort in these trying times

#op #personal #coping skills #coping mechanism #even when life sucks my hair is there shining gorgeously and full of body and softly curling waves #beating cognitive distortions' up with a little reframing #“life sucks / but at least i have good hair”

[veronicawalshcbt]

An CBT thought reframe example:

Think different. Feel Different. Behave Different. This post introduces you to the structured ABCD-NC modelling that your brain will love. Build awareness and self regulation of stress-thinking (cognitive distortions and bad thinking habits) with cognitive behavioural therapy. An ABCD-NC exampleActivating Event or Situation (A): This is the initial trigger or situation that sparks your…

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#cbt handout #cbt journaling template #cbt worksheet #cognitive behavioral therapy worksheets #dispute and reframe cognitive distortions #the abcd thought form #the ABCD-NC worksheet #veronica walsh cbt resources