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You re not your thoughts1/12/2024 ![]() “When you catch yourself feeling a strong emotion like anxiety at the pit of your stomach, stop yourself and ask, ‘What am I thinking right now?’ Then write it down,” says Galanti. If reframing your thoughts is a new skill for you, awareness is an important first step. In order to reframe your thoughts, you have to know what you’re thinking to begin with. With that in mind, here are some things you can try. Reframing your thoughts in a way that feels helpful and believable to you is a deeply personalized experience, so it might take some trial and error. Keep in mind that certain tips will be more helpful in one situation than another, and what works best for someone else might not help you as much. So let’s talk about a few different answers to that question. We’ll get into some specific examples throughout the article, but the important thing to know up top is that when our emotions get involved, our brains can turn into annoying liars and warp reality, making us feel worse. As humans with feelings and anxieties, we often fall into the habit of assuming that our thoughts are automatically true when, in fact, we’re all susceptible to unhealthy and unhelpful thought patterns known as cognitive distortions. And while there’s a lot we can’t control right now, if you’re someone drowning in a sea of anxieties, learning to reframe your thoughts is a great place to start easing the burden just a little.īefore we dive into what that means, let’s talk about why “reframing our thoughts” is needed in the first place. Luckily, there’s a wide range of therapeutic mechanisms out there we can equip ourselves with to cope with existential anxious thoughts. In a time when our existential anxiety is running wild-thanks, coronavirus pandemic-many of us have been scrambling to learn how to deal. ![]()
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