Perception Is Reality

Cognitive Restructuring provides a way to control your thinking, so stressful events and circumstances don’t automatically trigger a stressful response.
A famous psychologist, Dr. Albert Ellis described a simple way for you to understand and remember how you irrationally react to events and situations.

A + B = C
A = activating event
B = our belief
C = resulting consequence

Your life experiences mold your beliefs. Experiences are shaped by past events and guided by others. Often well-meaning family members, relatives, teachers or close friends
But the thing is, when you believe that something is true, you tend to look for events that support that belief. Subconscious reinforcement of negative belief often happens when you react to a ‘perceived negative’ event with strong negative emotions.

Your beliefs may act as a filter that colors the event, so as to interpret the resulting consequence as being dire or a horrifying in our minds.

This pattern of reacting to events colored by your negative beliefs increases stress in your life. These stressful episodes can initiate or aggravate backache or muscle spasms, gastrointestinal problems, dizziness, etc. Repeated cycles of these stressors may lead to chronic diseases such as diabetes or heart disease.

You need to change your pattern of associating negative beliefs with the activating events.
Changing this habit of association takes practice. You have had a lifetime of “taped messages” stored away in your brains. So it’s only natural that it would require a bit of effort to break the linkages between your negative beliefs and activating events.
Beliefs are nothing more than thoughts that you keep repeating in your brain, which keeps them alive and active in your mind.
To make changes, you must first become aware of them. And then develop tools to shift them from the old beliefs to a new thought pattern. Reinforce the new thought pattern with lots of positive examples that show the new belief is true.

 

Heart Attack & Heart Disease Recovery – change your belief, heal your body