8 sentences to rewire the mind for mental health

By: Aditya Shukla, Cognition Today

Mental health has a cognitive component made up of how you think and processes ideas.

Unlike the emotional component that is abstract and hard to identify, the thinking component is easier to spot. Thanks to language.

Thoughts are often represented as sentences. When mental health suffers, those thoughts take a specific form. If we reword them, the thoughts change. WE can change the form of those sentences and rewire the mind.

Separate the feeling from the self. It takes power away from the feeling and returns it to you.

Sadness

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I am anxious I am sad I am toxic I am a loser I am sick I am stupid

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8 sentences to rewire the mind for mental health

Mental health has a cognitive component made up of how you think and processes ideas.

Unlike the emotional component that is abstract and hard to identify, the thinking component is easier to spot. Thanks to language.

Thoughts are often represented as sentences. When mental health suffers, those thoughts take a specific form. If we reword them, the thoughts change. WE can change the form of those sentences and rewire the mind.

Separate the feeling from the self. It takes power away from the feeling and returns it to you.

Sadness

I am anxious I am sad I am toxic I am a loser I am sick I am stupid

Anxiety is upon me Sadness has arrived I am showing toxicity I am in a losing streak Sickness is upon me Stupidity boarded my brain

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