How thoughts create emotions? Should emotions be trusted? There are two common beliefs on this one, you should always trust your emotions or to feelings are irrational and can't be trusted. These are both wrong. emotions and feelings are neither right nor wrong. Emotions are just your body's reaction to what you were thinking whether you were thinking on purpose or not.
Your belief systems and other unconscious thoughts are happening automatically all the time, and they often cause emotions. That's why sometimes you may have no idea why you feel the way you do. Next is an example of why emotions are neither right or wrong because they are just reacting to your thoughts. Think about something that you don't have that you really want. You may think you're unhappy because you don't have it. But that's actually not true.
You're unhappy because of the thought of not having it next. Some questions to ask yourself regarding what you really want. One, have you ever been happy while not having it? too? If you didn't have it, but didn't care, would you be unhappy? Three, if you still didn't have it, but we're doing something that kept you from thinking about it like going down a roller coaster?
Would you be unhappy then? Not having what you want doesn't make you feel bad thinking about it does. Most of the time it's our thoughts that create our emotions. Sometimes our unconscious mind picks up cues from our environment that trigger emotions like reading a person's body language or facial expression and having an automatic emotional response or sensing danger and having an automatic fear response. The rest of the time though, it's not the outside world or the situation that causes emotional reaction. It filters through our personal interpretation of it first, which then causes our emotional reaction.
To the situation. in psychology This is called cognitive behavioral therapy CBT. For short, it uses strategies to figure out unhealthy thought patterns and use positive self talk and imagery to redirect the person's thinking to change their mood. Next, there will be two examples of how to change your thinking so you can change your emotions. One, focus on something else a distraction when you are experiencing an emotion that you don't want and identify that what you are thinking about is the cause the first step is to literally change the subject of your thinking. Just like you would change the conversation with another person.
If you didn't like the topic. Sometimes the best way to feel better is to focus on something that feels better stop thinking about the thoughts that are triggering your emotions and the emotions will stop thinking about something positive makes you feel good. This is great and it works but not always. Sometimes the thoughts Don't go away. They are strong enough that you can't distract yourself from the situation you're judging in your mind is in your face too often. In that situation, you can reach for a new perspective to help you feel differently about the situation and then feel better.
To find a new perspective, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change, even in the same situation or the same facts. If you change the way you look at it, your experience of the situation will change. So this is an example two friends ride a roller coaster together. They are both very excited for this ride. One friend is shaking, sweating and feels nauseated, they're scared. The other friend is smiling and their heart is racing.
They are happy, same situation, different perspectives and the result would be completely different emotional responses.