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Cognition is the word that psychometrics experts and psychologists use for describing thought processes. Your cognitive behaviour and ability encompasses your thought processes that lead to your speed of information processing.

This means looking at how quickly you can move from perception and acquisition of knowledge, to retaining it, organising it around your existing knowledge and then being able to take those concepts and apply them again in a different situation. This is related to your problem-solving, analytic and reasoning skills.

It is important to help people become aware of when they make negative interpretations, and of behavioral patterns which reinforce the distorted thinking. Cognitive therapy helps people to develop alternative ways of thinking and behaving which aims to reduce their psychological distress.

• COGNITIVE THOUGHTS – Your cognitive thoughts about a specific situation, whether positive or negative, are driven by the beliefs that you have been taught and will have a direct impact on your emotions and feelings
• EMOTIONAL FEELINGS – Your emotions and feelings that reflect your cognitive thinking, whether positive or negative, will have a direct impact on your physical response
• PHYSICAL RESPONSE – Your physical response to the emotional and feelings that you have, whether positive or negative, will have a direct impact on your behaviour and actions
• BEHAVIOURAL ACTIONS – Your behaviour following your physical response, whether positive or negative, drives your decisions and action and consequently the results you get…..

All driven by your personal beliefs!

There are times and situations that your personal belief system is not helpful and may be holding you back. We would, in these instances, discuss the belief, where it came from, if its true, if its helpful and would you wish to dispute it following a simple ABCDE system

• A is the activating event—the event that triggers stress or worry. It might be a crisis in a personal relationship, a speech to be given, chronic lack of confidence, job dissatisfaction.
• B stands for “belief system”—the cognitive component in a person’s reaction to events. People often state beliefs that are counterproductive and reduce clear thinking. You would challenge this belief directly.
• C stands for consequences of irrational beliefs. Irrational thoughts produce bad consequences. They can be self-fulfilling prophecies.
• D stands for disputing irrational beliefs. The important thing is to replace negative, unrealistic thinking with a more realistic and adaptive appraisal of problem situations.
• E stands for the effects of changing one’s interpretation of a situation. Ideally you would now take practical action to solve the problem and put into place a new effective belief

To find out more about Cognitive Behaviour and limiting beliefs contact us to make an appointment to discuss