“Know thyself. The unexamined life is not worth living”
~ Socrates
~ Correcting Inaccurate Thoughts
~
Become the witness to the thoughts (internal
dialogue). “You are not the voice in your head…you are the observer of the
voice.”
The voice in your head is the
ego…the ego is a pseudo reality. It’s a collection of consciousness created by
our subjective perception of “our” world.
~ Emotional Awareness ~
Become aware of the emotions.
(Thoughts-feelings-behaviors)
Stop using emotional reasoning.
Intellect comes second to emotions.
We need to re-establish critical
thinking with thoughts-feelings-actions.
Emotions are questionable and
delude critical thinking.
~ Cognitive Distortions
~
Cognitive distortions are
irrational thoughts that fuel your emotions.
Catastrophizing, all-or-nothing,
overgeneralization, emotional reasoning, Fortune telling, and mind
reading.
Disputing negative
thoughts…correcting your thinking. Awareness teaches you to make your
mind work for you through critical thinking…not against you with emotional
thoughts. Clarify and evaluate every thought.
Clarifying thoughts allows us to
discern between what’s in our best interest, and what’s not. It’s important to
note that our brain is indifferent to whether we have happy, meaningful lives.
The main function of the brain is wired to have an insatiable appetite for
survival and reproduction. This is a very important part of understanding
behaviors when it comes to knowing who we are, and why we do what we do.
Aristotle
