Cognitions & Happiness
The Power of
Thought
Based on the textbook chapter by Alison Bryant
How does way you think affects the way you feel?
Subjective Wellbeing
A person’s evaluation of their life, including both their cognitive judgments of satisfaction, and their appraisal of their emotions and mood.
Cognitions
All forms of knowing and awareness
perceiving judging
imagining reasoning
What influences our thoughts?
Self-esteem
Cognitive appraisal
Explanatory style
Self-efficacy
Self-esteem
How a person sees, thinks and feels about themselves.
Cognitive appraisal
How a person interprets an event or situation.
Was it good or bad?
Explanatory style
How a person explains and describes an event or situation.
Do you have an optimistic or pessimistic explanatory
style?
Self-efficacy
The belief that one can perform adequately.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
What could you be eliciting from a situation or person with a false belief you may hold?
Become consciously aware of your thoughts…
The power for change
Rational emotive behaviour therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Affirmations
Rational emotive behaviour therapy
Conquer self-defeating thoughts by replacing them with more rational thoughts.
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Observe cognitions for what they are – language, words, pictures – as opposed to what they appear to be, threatening truths and facts.
Affirmations
A positive statement said to counteract a negative belief.
You have the power
Create what you want to experience in your world!
Seek positivity
GUARD YOUR THOUGHTS…
They are incredibly powerful
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