Book Excerpts
Skill #1: Looking To Learn
Skill #2: Transforming your Thinking
Skill #3: Establishing Healthy Boundaries
Skill #4: Caring For Your Body
Skill #5: Raising Your Emotional IQ
Skill #6: Cultivating Your Spiritual Life
Skill #7: Fine-tuning Relationships
Skill # 2 – Transforming Your Thinking
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Common Faulty Thinking Pattern —Mind Reading You believe you know what others are thinking or feeling. You think that you’re so good at reading people and situations that you don’t usually bother to check out your assumption. You don’t ask them if you are right. Example: You walk into a room and the conversation dies down. You assume it’s because they were talking about you |
Alternate Healthy Thinking Pattern —Double-check Your Assumptions In order to understand what’s going on around us, all of us try to interpret what we see, hear and observe. However, we are bound to interpret things incorrectly from time to time. Check in with others about your assumptions and interpretations, especially if your conclusion is upsetting you. You may be wrong and are suffering needlessly. Often in our attempts to mind read, we are unaware of many possibilities. For instance with the example to the left, what really could have been happening was that… |