Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 183 of the Mindful Kine podcast. I've been so looking forward to sharing this episode

with you because on the last one at number 182, I talked about cognitive distortions, including

what they are, where the idea came from, why they're important and five examples of

cognitive distortions, including all or nothing thinking,

overgeneralization, mental filtering, disqualifying the positive and jumping to conclusions.

I heard some wonderful feedback about this episode that it was really helpful and allowed

people to notice how their thoughts were sometimes having a negative impact

on their lives unnecessarily. So if you haven't tuned into episode 182 of the mindful kind yet,

please go and do that first and then come back to this episode. I'll be sharing some common

cognitive distortions and simple ways you can notice them and start to reframe them.

Just keep in mind, I talked about five cognitive distortions on the last episode, so we're now up to cognitive distortion number six, which is magnification.

With this type of cognitive distortion, you might exaggerate and focus on your flaws and mistakes and blow them out of proportion.

So let's just imagine you've invited some friends around for dinner and you've made a beautiful meal from scratch and a delicious dessert.

When you go to add some fresh blueberries to the dessert, you realize you were actually supposed to get

raspberries and when you taste the dessert, the flavors don't quite match. Even though everyone

compliments you on all the wonderful things you cooked and tell you that the dessert is still

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