The emotional and behavioral reactions of people to the events they experience are related to how they perceive the event they experience and what meaning they attribute to this event. We often think that the events we experience determine our emotional state. However, the event itself does not affect the person's emotions. Factors affecting emotions; It is how a person perceives that event, what he thinks about the event based on this perception, and how he interprets the event in his mind. The interpretation formed in our mind determines our emotions, and our emotions determine what we feel in our body (a lump in your throat, a tightness in your chest, a feeling of chills, etc.) and our behavior.
Some short-term thoughts come to our mind throughout the day. These appear in the mind like a light bulb suddenly turning on when you press the criticize button. These thoughts can sometimes be in the form of instant images that pass before our eyes. Thought is fertile and has the ability to gradually grow by giving birth to each other, like an avalanche forming from a snowball. These thoughts are called "Automatic Thoughts". Automatic thoughts are thoughts that appear suddenly and spontaneously, which we do not bring to our minds logically or consciously, and most of them consist of negative thoughts. Even though we may not be able to realize the thoughts or images that pass through our minds quickly and quickly, we often notice the emotions they create in us. These are; There may be negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, anxiety and panic. In moments where our emotional state suddenly changes negatively, we ask ourselves: 'What just went through my mind? Or what did I dream of? We can catch our automatic thoughts when we ask the question ''.
From the moment they are born, people try to make sense of and understand what is happening around them. While trying to understand the world, he acquires information about himself, the people he communicates with, and the environment and culture he lives in. After a while, some beliefs begin to form in his mind based on this information. In the light of the information he has acquired, he makes sense of the world, his environment, culture and interpersonal relations based on his own experiences, and rearranges these experiences in his mind in order to adapt to his environment. The most basic beliefs ar; It is shaped by the person's first experiences with the world and other people. The perceptions and ideas formed by the first experiences are accepted by the person as immutable truths and are not questioned. These most basic beliefs are the mental building blocks of a person. They are called thought patterns.
In the next stage, we begin to develop rules and assumptions appropriate to our thought patterns in our minds, thus shaping our mental structure with our ever-increasing number of thought patterns. The rules we establish with the sentences 'should, should' and the negative assumptions such as 'if this happens, this is the result' actually determine the negative automatic thoughts that come through our minds throughout the day. Automatic thoughts are the events. It determines our emotional state during the day and our communication with our environment by affecting our emotional and behavioral reactions to others. Thought patterns that are accepted as true without questioning, and our rules and assumptions that are their extensions, after a while surround us like a circle, restrict our lives and turn life into a nightmare.
Working on people's thought systems Thought Therapy (Cognitive Therapy) accepts as a basis the fact that your basic beliefs, which have been accepted by you without questioning, are not innate, but are learned later, and that they can be questioned, stretched or changed. It allows you to re-question your rigid, harsh thought patterns, rules and judgmental assumptions that are negative and disrupt the functionality in our lives and restrict you. It reshapes your way of thinking that restricts you, makes your life difficult and harms your communications. strong> Your prejudiced, overly normative and rigid thoughts in your mind learn to bend. As your rules and assumptions change and stretch, the thoughts that come to your mind throughout the day also change in a positive way. Thus, your emotional state and behavioral reactions to events are reshaped. This situation; turn around While it redefines the relationships you will establish with yourself, the meaning you give to the events you experience and the way the consequences affect you, it also contributes to breaking the circle that surrounds you and helping you become free and enjoy life more.
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