#Cognitive Restructuring

[gray-r-regan]

Mental health:

If you're neurodivergent and you've always thought a "gratitude practice" sounds like bullshit, I understand.

But the reason you do it is to counteract our natural negativity bias.

You probably know this is where the human brain focuses hard on the bad stuff because that's what we want to avoid in the future, and it focuses harder depending on how bad the bad stuff was, and that's where you get PTSD from, essentially.

Our brains do not hold on to the good stuff, generally, except in the moment. That stuff doesn't stay unless you're actively dialing in, paying attention, focusing and appreciating.

This is why bad days/months/years feel longer than good ones, generally:

Time is what happens when you string events together in your mind as though they were linear.

Imagine good things are yellow beads, and bad things are red beads.

If you're not paying attention to and being actively grateful and appreciative, your brain will ONLY use red beads. Then your "time string" is longer, because there are so many red beads, and you didn't focus on, or attempt to actively create, though changing your perspective, any yellow beads.

Good day? Didn't tell yourself how good it was? Brain sees nothing important here.

Brain disregards.

Guess what?

When you search your brain for good days, but you don't tell yourself stories about them, or think about how good they are, or write them down, or talk about them?

They won't be there. They didn't imprint.

And that is how you craft happiness and positive memories.

By snatching them and taping them up on the walls in your brain.

The world doesn't do it TO you.

You do it, based on how you think about what happens to you.

This is what they were trying to say (in very autistic language) in this image:

It's true, it's just worded so clinically that it seems too simple and stupid to be true.

You create the pathways in your brain through how you respond to what happens to you.

You prune your brain like a bonzai tree.

You can trim it towards shriveling up in the darkness and hating everything, or you can trim it towards the light and feeling better.

Yes, some things make this extremely difficult. Yes, medication is necessary sometimes. Yes, therapy can help.

But this is how it works.

If you're deep in it, it's going to feel fake and stupid at first and you may have to try neutrality before positivity.

"Yes, this is happening and it's hard."

Instead of, "I wish this wasn't happening, it shouldn't be happening, this isn't fair, why me, I wanna unalive myself."

Then move to:

"I am strong enough to survive this. I love and care for myself enough to get through it and I'll be okay."

Or whatever words of that sort speak to you.

It's about breaking habits and it DOES WORK.

Plus!

Your behaviors are generally dictated by your habitual thoughts.

So if you want to change your behaviors, gear your thoughts towards the ones you want.

Think like the person you want to be would think and, with time, you will become them.

ALSO:

This is why you feel a hunger for things sometimes that you just can't satisfy:

Your brain doesn't know it happened unless you focused on it, paid attention to it, soaked it in.

It can't tell.

Gaming? If you're thinking about other things for four hours while smashing buttons, and thought that one cute thing that lasted five seconds was great?

You gamed for five seconds, as far as your brain is concerned.

Sweet foods? If you're on your phone, watching TV, etc, the snack never happened, so you'll just keep wanting it as if you never had one.

Your level of engagement = the depth of any experience's imprint on your brain/memory.

This also goes for rest.

Worry or feel shame/anxiety the whole time and your body doesn't feel safe enough to repair itself.

Repair mode exists for a reason.

We just forgot how to use it.

[gayatri001]

Love this perspective shift ❤️

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