Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Daily Inspiration
By Dr. John H. Sklare
Monday, May 1, 2006

Thought reframing is the conscious and mindful act of taking some difficult, upsetting or frustrating situation, thought or emotional state and changing the way you look at it. Since your thoughts are what create your emotional states, changing your thoughts will change those emotional states. It’s a conscious method of manipulating your thoughts as a way of changing how you feel. In laymen’s terms, I guess you could say it provides a way to look for the silver lining that lies just beneath the surface of every dark cloud.

For those of you who struggle with negative thoughts and self-defeating attitudes, this is the Yellow Brick Road to OZ. If you think of each brick in your Yellow Brick Road to wellness as a healthy decision, you can begin to see the value of making each decision count. Thought reframing is a cognitive strategy that provides a strategy for you to add more bricks to your Yellow Brick Road.

Changing negative situations into positive experiences is not an easy task. I don’t mean to oversimplify this but I do want to emphasize the incredible change you can initiate if you aggressively pursue changing your way of thinking. Change your thinking, change your life. This is the basic principle upon which mind/body medicine is founded.