Mind Shape

When one sentence colors everything you see.

One Thought, Whole Mood

It starts quietly: “They don’t like me.” “This won’t go well.” “I always mess it up.”

And suddenly, the entire room feels colder.

The moment hardens.

The self contracts.

All because of a sentence you didn’t even mean to think.

Seeing Through What You Think

We rarely see the world as it is.

We see it as we think it is.

Your mind is a meaning-maker.

Every thought adds color, texture, and weight.

Fear.

Hope.

Shame.

Possibility.

Aaron Beck, founder of cognitive therapy, wrote: “The interpretation we place on events is more important than the events themselves.”

That means:

Change the frame - change the feeling.

Not Facts- Just Familiar

Most of us believe our thoughts because they feel true to us.

But truth and familiarity aren’t the same.

Many thoughts are old.

Borrowed.

Unexamined.

You don’t have to replace them all.

You just have to ask:

Is this thought helping or holding?

Mental Mirrors

What thought tends to repeat when I feel overwhelmed?

Is it true, or is it just practiced?

What else might be true if I were to soften the lens?

“The interpretation we place on events is more important than the events themselves.”

Aaron T. Beck

Final Shift

You don’t need to change the memory.

Only to meet it from the place you’re standing in now.

Not the version you survived it with, but the one that knows you are no longer there.

Some thoughts are not lies.

They were just the best shape your mind could find to hold what felt too big.

You’re invited to soften that shape.

Download the Reframe practice and begin where the sentence starts to shift.

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