Category: evidence
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What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
More than 2,000 studies have demonstrated that our thoughts and beliefs (which you can view as ingrained or “stored” thoughts) are one of, if not the primary root causes of our anxiety. Cognitive behavior therapies like CBT and the Option Method are based on this discovery. CBT is based on the psychological construct that individuals’…
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Why does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) work?
CBT helps people uncover their anxiety-causing beliefs—the reasons why you think you should be anxious about something—so they can evaluate them and change them but knowing or “using” CBT isn’t enough. You or your mental health supporter(s) must be skilled enough to uncover anxiety-causing beliefs and thinking patterns that are often unconscious. Not everyone is…
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MDs, psychologists, stoics, and best-selling emotional intelligence authors who’ve clinically validated that anxiety is caused by beliefs
Note: These individuals have validated through research and their line of work that all negative emotions are caused by beliefs (often unconscious). Marcus Aurelius has stated that it isn’t external things and events that upset us but rather our judgments about those things. I argue that a judgment is based on one’s belief system. It…