Challenge These 15 Distorted Thoughts To Get Ahead In Life
We all have them.
Distorted thought patterns, or cognitive distortions are tricks our minds play on us to make us believe something that’s not true
We all have cognitive distortions. They haunt even the most balanced thinkers.
Thinking you are immune to cognitive distortion is probably a cognitive distortion 😉
Our minds use cognitive distortions to bolster our beliefs about ourselves or the world.
They reinforce our negative thinking. They act as filters through which we interpret the world.
Like a lot of the workings of the human mind, they began as an attempt to protect us and to avoid pain. Then they got a little too deeply rooted and they took over.
Now they cause us pain.
“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.” — Sylvia Browne
