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Here is your daily dose of Wisdom for Living Your Best Self!

Over the last several days, we have been discussing different kinds of unhealthy thinking patterns (cognitive distortions) that lead us away from mental and emotional wellbeing and negatively impact our relationships.

All of us engage in such thinking patterns from time to time and the more we begin to recognize them, the less hold they will have on us. This is how we can stop letting these thoughts control us and get back in charge.

Before we discuss some more ways we can combat these thinking patterns, here is a list of distortions that we talked about. You can click here to review any or all of them.

1)   All or nothing thinking/polarized thinking [DW#488]
2)   Overgeneralizations [DW#489]
3)   Labeling [DW#490]
4)   Catastrophizing [DW#491]
a.   Decatastrophizing [DW#492]
5)   Minimization [DW#493]
6)   Emotional reasoning [DW#494]
7)   Shoulding yourself [DW#495]
8)   Jumping to conclusions – mind reading [DW#496]
9)   Jumping to conclusions – fortune telling [DW#497]
10)  Personalization [DW#498]
11)  Blaming [DW#499]
12)  Control Fallacies [DW#500]
13)  Fallacy of fairness [DW#501]
14)  Heaven’s reward fallacy [DW#502]
15)  Fallacy of change [DW#503]
16)  Always being right [DW#504]
17)  Self-serving bias [DW#505]
18)  The two darts [DW#506]

Are you yet beginning to recognize some of these distortions in your own thinking? Which are the most challenging for you to shift?

Wishing you a day full of positivity, purpose and peace.
Warm blessings

Marzia  

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D Burns, MD
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Dr. Daniel Goleman.
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Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, and Patrick M. Lencioni.

One of the most famous on this topic, this book is focused more on ways to use EQ to improve your life. You’ll find a step-by-step program for increasing your emotional intelligence that focuses on four core skills: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, along with activities that will help you boost each of these areas.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.
The classic on self-growth, this book remains a top seller and go-to for millions around the world. Taking a less conventional approach to the subject, he isn’t focused on emotional intelligence per se, but rather presents a guide for anyone looking to better understand and control their emotions. The seven habits described in his book all require an awareness and control of emotional intelligence while teaching people how to become more proactive, a big-picture thinker, manage various interaction while building more effective communication.


The Language of Emotional Intelligence: The Five Essential Tools for Building Powerful and Effective Relationshipsby Jeanne Segal.
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