Normally, the human brain tends to catastrophize a supposed event (this pattern helped us survive among saber-toothed tigers). This technique, on the other hand, will help unwind an unpleasant thought dialogue toward more positive assumptions.
- List the situations you perceive as disasters and write down all the damage you anticipate. Fantasize about the horrors in this paragraph at your leisure.
- Now ask yourself the following questions:
⁃ What are the outcomes of the event that scares me that other people usually experience?
⁃ How do they deal with it?
⁃ How have I handled my own troubles in the past?
⁃ How likely is it that an upcoming event is more dangerous than the ones that have already happened to me?
⁃ If my fantasies come true, would it really be that terrible and hopeless?
⁃ What are the ways out of this situation that I can think of now?
⁃ What positive meanings can this event have?
⁃ What can you learn from it? What will you find meaning and value in?
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