Once more with feeling!
Sometimes people find that even once they have achieved a more balanced position and are no longer logically convinced of the truth of a negative thought it continues to exercise power over their mood. This is actually not surprising.
Firstly, while we do sometimes have flashes of insight and revelation that transform our worldview and lift the scales from our eyes, such incidents are the exception rather than the rule. It’s easy to see why.
For a start your negative beliefs have probably been rehearsed and reinforced over a very long period. At a physical level, the pathways in our brains get strengthened the more times we use them. In particular, thought processes relating to core beliefs will inevitably have been reinforced ...
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