Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Dec/Jan 2019 Aspire Magazine Final | Page 52

ARE YOUR THOUGHTS DERAILING YOUR
Resilience?
BY LINDA GRAHAM, MFT
S
ometimes your thoughts
can drive you crazy, blocking
clear thinking and impeding
response flexibility. Sometimes
your thoughts trigger further
thoughts,
evaluations,
judgments, and condemnations
that reduce your resilience.
These thought patterns are
ways of filtering reality that can
be counterproductive.
You can learn to work mindfully
with your thoughts, and with all
the amazing, creative, dazzling
constructs of your default
network mode, especially when
those constructs turn dark or
constricting, so that you can
also experience their coming
and going. Even your deeply
held beliefs about the truth of
the way things are can shift. And
you can come to understand
the processes of your brain that
create, install, and defend those
constructs to the death.
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