Understanding powerful thoughts and generating helpful responses
Introduction Thoughts are often how we speak to ourselves. It seems we learn to think in childhood when people might tell us things, e.g. look three times before crossing the road and to remember this, we might say this out loud to ourselves a few times then after a while we don’t say it out loud but we still stay it to ourselves and this seems the origin of thinking. In a thought then we are both speaker and listener and we are in relation to ourselves, in the same way as when you were started thinking, by someone telling you something. As you work through these questions if you find it difficult to think of the answer, you might also ask yourself what would it be like if someone else was saying this to me. The exercise has two parts, one to understand the thought, which can be helpful in itself and one to generate a helpful response. Understanding 1. Thought a. Choose a thought that you’d like to work on. If it...
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