Emotional Reasoning- The Cognitive Distortion that makes you Emotionally Reactive - Anxiety 18/30

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In this video I’m going to teach you an important skill to be less emotionally reactive. Essentially, how to control your emotions. Emotions lie to you all the time. But they feel so real. They are very powerful motivators, but they aren’t always accurate. In this video you’ll learn how to be less emotionally reactive by learning to combat emotional reasoning. You’ll learn 4 ways to slow yourself down in an intense moment and 3 steps to combating emotional reasoning. We'll also talk for a minute about the difference between emotions and intuition.
Emotional reasoning is a cognitive distortion where you believe that something is true simply because it feels true. You use emotions as your evidence, instead of logic or, you know, evidence.
If you want to control your emotions, you need to learn how to recognize emotional reasoning and replace it with a combination of logic and values-based decision making. This is a fundamental skill from CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy.

Check out the timestamps below:
00:00 Intro
02:22 OK, So What Is Emotional Reasoning?
06:40 So, If You Want To Be Less Emotionally Reactive, You’ve Got To Slow Things Down.

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