Alzheimers Signs and Symptoms

Using Cognitive Behavoral Therapy Techiques To Link Your Thoughts And Emotions

February 22nd, 2012

There are lots of cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, and you need to use them to get on top of your ocs symptoms and start to put yourself back in charge of your life.

The thing is, heaps of people presume that, if something happens to them, it’s what has taken place that has made them feel in a certain way.

Are you like this?

When something occurs, do you say that that event has made you feel in a specific way? Do you assert “that film made me so downt” or “that event made me very cross”?

And do you also say that, because that film made you gloomy, “it also made me cry”?

If you do, you are like plenty of other folk, and you are wrong!

The film didn’t make you downcast, or make you cry, or whatever – you decided to be sad because of your thoughts in response to watching the film.

Using certain cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, you can decide to consider events in a completely different way. CBT supports the view that it is your thinking that occurs first and your emotions and your actions flow from your thinking.

It’s your thoughts about an event, and the beliefs and meanings that you put upon the event, that produce your emotional and behavioural response to that event.

So why does this matter? It counts a huge amount, as it totally changes your point of view on life and the events that go on around you.

What you do, just like everyone else, is you notice things going on around you and then you concentrate on what is happening, assign a group of convictions and meanings to what you have noticed, and then choose an emotional and behavioural response to that event.

Your emotional reaction is consistent with the principles and meanings that you have allotted to the event. It makes sense to you on some level, but it is a choice. And this means that you really choose not only what you consider what is happening, but also how you feel and behave because of to what is going on.

So , if you are really deciding how you feel because you are selecting what to think, concentrating on what you concentrate on what is happening, and changing what you suspect, could change how you feel. You are actually in control of your emotons, as you are in charge of your thoughts “even if you don’t quite believe this yet!

It is not the film that makes you depressed, it is you who chooses to be sad by brooding about the film is a certain way, and by doing this, select a particular emotive reaction to those thoughts about the film. Or to anything else actually, like the things your are anxious about, maybe?

Powerful stuff indeed! Can you see how studying about and applying cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for yourself, or in your anxiety support group, could help you with your panic or anxiety reaction?

For additonal information about cognitive behavoral therapy techniques, visit www.anxietysupportgroupsonline.com