Cognitive Reframing

How to change how we interpret past experiences?

• There is a method called Cognitive reframing that consists in the following steps:
  1. Identify the past experience that we want to reinterpret
  2. Identify what is the thought that is useless and bring us to feel negative emotions.
  3. Do what follows:
     1. Question the thought to prove that it is not always true
     2. Find other meanings of the past experience that are more useful and bring us to feel positive emotions.
• Although I think that reframing a past experience only by question the thought and find useful meanings is not sufficient and it is necessary also to live experiences that support the new meanings and beliefs.

More in general reframing means considering a situation under a new perspective.