Module seven mindfulness based cognitive therapy. Identifying distorted thoughts and counteracting them is one option for how you can choose your reaction to emotions. Typically, though, in order to have the wherewithal to identify an emotion or a distorted thinking pattern, you have to be in a place of calm already. While correcting a distorted notion with logic sounds simple in practice, it isn't always the most practical approach. An alternative to choosing a reaction to your emotions is to do nothing altogether. In order to do this, however, you have to get to a point where you see yourself the person you refer to when I say AI, as separate from your thoughts and emotions.
Mindfulness Based cognitive therapy nbct seeks to foster this form of detachment which has been vitally helpful for those who suffer from extreme anxiety in particular. Mental modes, most forms of nbct theorize that the mind operates with many subsystems You have subsystems that constitute what you take in from your senses. For example, most theorists agree that the two main subsystems or modes correspond with an emotional side and a logical side. The logical mode things verbally and is concerned with your sense of self. It can also be referred to as cool cognition. When your logical mode is dominant, you tend to be more reflective, calm, thoughtful and less prone to action.
When your emotional mode is dominant, you may think verbally to an extent, but you will also think in terms of images and a kind of verbal shorthand. The emotional mode is concerned more with relationship with others and is more prone to action. It can also be referred to as hot cognition. Doing mode. Another way of thinking of the two primary modes of cognition, emotional and logical is in terms of action, a doing mode and a beam mode. The doing mode is goal oriented and engages you when you feel things aren't as they should be, given the nature of arousal emotions, when these are present You are goaded into the doing mode with a sense that you must be doing something in order to change your situation.
Having goals and taking actions to reach them are worthwhile. But operating in a dueling mode is not always helpful, especially if you suspect that your assessment of a situation may be distorted. For example, when a parent disciplines a child from a place of anger, they are less able to consider the aims and consequences of their disciplinary practices than they would be able to if they did so, from a place of calm. Being mode being associated more with a logical mode of cognition is not goal oriented. It is more interested in experiencing a situation as it is without a need to change anything. The various approaches to nbct all concur that good mental health involves the ability of an individual to consciously switch between being and doing modes when appropriate, with the recognition that both modes are useful in certain situations and debt.
Mental and others. For example, if you are crossing the street and a truck is barreling down upon you, operating in being mode will help to make your life a much shorter one than if you can switch immediately to doing mode and get out of the way. metacognitively metacognitive awareness. Mindfulness comes in handy in being able to consciously switch from being mode to doing mode or vice versa because it helps you to develop a metacognitive awareness. This is a fancy word for saying you are aware of your thoughts and your thinking. The Buddhist term detachment is another good synonym for metacognitive awareness.
When you can identify yourself as an observer of your thoughts and your emotions. The impetus to act on them is not as strong