How to give yourself a cognitive therapy session
posted July 5, 2009 - 12:39amHow to give yourself a cognitive therapy session
Why you need one
Once in awhile, we can give ourselves a cognitive session so that we can delete some mental problems that we have. If you keep at it you will get sick one day. It's not healthy to think about problems that don't exist. Unfortunately, a lot of people dwell on the past and problems that are only half real.
A lot of people walk around with past problems haunting them
The problems get worse if you keep at it
They can be half imaginary and half real
It will make you sick
How to start
Take out a paper
Write down all your problems
Label what is important and current
Label what is not important and is the past
Label it if it’s true or just your imagination
Use the word T for true or I for imagination
Go through your list
Cross off those that are just imagination
Cross off some more
Cross off those that are labeled as unimportant
Cross off those that are labeled as from the past
Cross off those that don’t have any label
Cross off those that are not problems
What happens now
After you cross off your list, you will see that you will have very little items left
This means that most of your mental problems are either not important, imaginary, not true, from the past or they are not real
This means that you should not waste your time thinking about them daily
What can you do to keep them off of your mind
After you went through this exercise, you have realized that your problems are not important and not real.
This is why you should make a conscious decision to let it go forever and don’t ever think about it again
You should do this monthly so you can clean up your mind
It’s just like cleaning up a computer
Too much problems will cause you to slow down
