Are your thoughts and behaviours keeping you from moving forward in your life? Would you like to change things? Do you know how you can begin to change your thoughts so you can change your behaviour? It will take time, work and patience but it can be done...are you ready? If you're saying yes, I hope the following article will get you going in the right direction.
How CBT works
As the name suggests, CBT focuses on the way people think ("cognitive") and act ("behavioural"). The concept behind CBT is that our thoughts about a situation affect how we feel (emotionally and physically) and how we behave in that situation. As human beings, we give meaning to events that are happening around us. However, we often don’t realize that two people can give two very different meanings to the same event.