"KPT. Healthy Thinking is a practical guide to changing useless habits of thought and behavior.
As you know, maladaptive behavior and irrational thinking contribute to the formation and maintenance of various emotional disorders and conditions, such as increased anxiety, hypochondria, obsessive thoughts and actions, panic attacks, various frightening symptoms and conditions. All this can be avoided with the help of cognitive-behavioral therapy, or rather, the use of CBT techniques.
The methodological basis of this application is the key laws and principles of A. Beck's cognitive-behavioral therapy, A. Ellis's rational-emotional-behavioral therapy, as well as the work of other representatives of these areas in psychotherapy.
Diary of SMER.
Perhaps the most common technique for working with dysfunctional automatic thoughts allows you to take a critical look at your thoughts, discover the connection between events-thoughts-emotions-reactions and helps to eliminate various errors of thinking, and, accordingly, behavior.
cognitive distortions.
This technique allows you to analyze your thoughts for cognitive distortions, because it is cognitive distortions that contribute to the emergence of various excessive negative emotions - anxiety, anxiety, guilt, shame, jealousy, envy, etc.
Having discovered the presence of cognitive distortions in your thinking, these distortions can be worked out by forming an alternative way of thinking and consolidating it in everyday life, which will help improve the quality of life in general.
Diary of the EMU-UME dispute.
This technique of disputing automatic thoughts will allow you to see each stage of the emergence and change of unconscious thinking separately and, accordingly, work through all these stages. This will allow you to form and reinforce alternative thoughts and beliefs that are more realistic, rational, and beneficial to you.
Diary of a dispute for/against.
Filling out this diary and then analyzing the notes will allow you to look at your thoughts-beliefs from different angles and understand that you may be making a mistake somewhere. And once an error is found, it will be possible to eliminate it by forming a new attitude to the situation and changing dysfunctional thoughts and beliefs.
The function of transferring the recording to a psychologist / psychotherapist.
If you are working with a personal psychotherapist / psychologist, then you can share diary entries with him for further analysis and discussion.
The main thing is practice! Regularly engage in the formation of new, more adaptive and healthy thinking, and very soon you will feel how much the quality of your life has improved and this life has sparkled with new colors and has become more conscious and fulfilling.