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.