Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: 11 Powerful Steps to Freedom from Anxiety, Depression, Master Your Emotions, Say Goodbye to Negative Thoughts and Bring Up Positive Thoughts, Great to Listen in Car!

By Tony Bennis

Cognitive behavioral therapy can change your life. CBT is the most researched type of therapy and scientists have found that it can be very effective in helping people with all kinds of mental health concerns. Whether you deal with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, PTSD – all of these things and more can be helped by CBT. 

The secret is that our thoughts and judgments are what determines our perceptions of the world. The way we act and feel is a combination of the situations that happen to us and our judgments about those situations. By changing your thoughts, you can change how you feel.

The power to change your life is within your own mind. This book will teach you how to observe your thoughts and change them. It will give you the tools you need to make real, meaningful change, right away. 

In addition to cognitive interventions, this book also talks about ways you can learn to problem solve and deal with specific issues in your life. Sometimes things seem unsurmountable, but when we look closer at them, we can learn ways to deal with what troubles us. 

Regardless of what you struggle with, a better life is possible. All you need to do is take the first step toward helping yourself: buying this book. With this book, you can start a journey toward self-acceptance and self-love that can make you feel better each and every day. 

Learn the background of cognitive behavioral therapy and what makes it unique and special. Develop an understanding of the way your mind works. Learn the way that thoughts help determine your emotions and behaviors. Explore the

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tony Bennis
• Release date: Jul 17, 2019

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Introduction

Congratulations on downloading Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Change Your Own Mind and thank you for doing so.

The following chapters will discuss a variety of topics related to cognitive behavioral therapy from the perspective of someone who wants to help themselves and their mental health. Even if you are in overall good mental health, the techniques described here can help you be happier, healthier, and more effective. And if you have depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues, exploring cognitive behavioral therapy is the best choice you can make for your life.

Research shows that CBT is an effective intervention for a wide variety of mental health concerns (Dobson & Khatri, 2000; Hofmann, Asnaani, Vonk, Sawyer, & Fang, 2012; Tolin, 2010). CBT can help if you have problems with depressions, anxiety, relationships, or simply living life. It can help if you use too many substances or eat too much. You may struggle to make decisions about relationships, your career, or your life goals. You may be worried about the future or overly concerned with the past. You may simply be unhappy. CBT can help. CBT, in fact, is the type of therapeutic practice with the most empirical support.

Cognitive behavioral therapy was developed in the 1960s by Aaron T. Beck and Albert Ellis specifically for depression, but later researchers have adapted and used it for other conditions such as hypochondria, eating disorders, panic disorders, social phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder. Variants have been tested and found effective for borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. As a model and a framework, CBT seems to help any maladaptive patterns or problematic mental health.

CBT is based on four fundamental principles, which we explore in more depth over the course of this book.

People’s understanding about the world and the way they think influences how they feel and how they behave. This means that you can understand someone’s problems through understanding the way that their thoughts, emotions, physical reactions, and behavior interact.

People can learn to become aware of their thoughts and, through the use of CBT interventions, can actually change those thoughts.

When a person changes their thoughts, their emotions, behaviors, and physical reactions will also change.

Because all these things are interrelated, changing your behavior will also change your thoughts and feelings.

The thing that that makes CBT so innovative and important is that it is a method of helping you feel better and adjust your emotions to be healthier by changing your thoughts and behaviors. It helps your feelings but does not directly deal with feelings, if that makes sense. It is not like the cliché of therapy where you are on a couch and telling an old man about how you feel about your mother. The focus isn’t on your childhood or your deep feelings.

Instead, we are going to focus on what you think and what you do. By changing the way you think, you can change the way you feel. And, by manipulating your behavior, you can feel happier and more at peace with your life. CBT gives you the power to intervene directly to the core of the problem.

If you are disciplined and careful, you can do a lot of this work yourself. This book will help you develop the skills necessary to challenge your own thoughts and help change your own behavior. If you find that you need help, look into finding a therapist trained in CBT techniques for a couple of sessions. The nice thing about CBT is that it is not designed to be eternal therapy: it is a discrete, focused system with a specific number of sessions.

There are plenty of books on this subject on the market, thanks again for choosing this one! Every effort was made to ensure it is full of as much useful information as possible, please enjoy!

Works Cited

Dobson, K. S., & Khatri, N. (2000). Cognitive therapy: Looking backward, looking forward. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(7), 907-923.

Hofmann, S. G., Asnaani, A., Vonk, I. J., Sawyer, A. T., & Fang, A. (2012). The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy: a review of meta-analyses. Cognitive therapy and research, 36(5), 427-440.

Tolin, D. F. (2010). Is cognitive–behavioral therapy more effective than other therapies? A meta-analytic review. Clinical psychology review, 30(6), 710-720.

Chapter 1: Cognitive and Behavioral and Therapy

The secret to cognitive behavioral therapy is in the name – it is therapy that focuses on cognition and behavior. This chapter will break down exactly what that means and contextualize CBT in terms of other therapeutic interventions. This will be helpful even if you don’t have any previous knowledge or experience of therapy—you have an idea of what therapy should look like, even if only from TV, and it is useful to differentiate CBT from that conception.

Cognitive therapies treat behavior as mediated by thoughts. What you think determines what you do. Someone who is depressed has conscious thoughts that are negative and pessimistic these thoughts are possible to change. Early in the development of CBT, research was finding that people who had a negative explanatory style were more at risk for depression (Seligman &. Abramson, 1979). That is, people who see the worst in situations or always look for a pessimistic read on a situation are more likely to become depressed.  Cognitive therapy works to change the way you interpret and think about situations in order to improve the way you feel. All cognitive therapies, including CBT, emphasize education and learning new skills that can be used to change your own mind.

There are three basic principles that all forms of cognitive therapy believe, and they are important to take seriously when learning about CBT.

First, there is principle that our thoughts are knowable. CBT is not focused on the subconscious or preconscious. This would be more in line with psychoanalysis, which believes that our behavior is determined by our subconscious mind. In psychoanalysis, the purpose of therapy is to draw out things that we do not consciously think but that affect our day to day lives. Cognitive therapies, on the other hand, endorse the idea that with appropriate training and attention, every person can become aware of their own thinking. You do not need a psychoanalyst to analyze the way your mind secretly works. The important thoughts are the conscious ones and the ones on the surface. This doesn’t mean that the only thoughts that matter are surface ones about day to day things—your deepest beliefs are also important and will be discussed. The important thing is that the thoughts are accessible and conscious.

Second, there is the principle that our thoughts determine how we feel and what we do in response to various situations in which we find ourselves. It isn’t the case that you simply act without thinking or just become overcome with emotion that you cannot control. The model holds that the way we think about an event is crucial in terms of how we feel. Emotions depend on judgments and judgments are about thinking. For example, you only feel anxious if you have the judgment that there is a threat or something to worry about in the situation. In order to have the emotion of anxiety,