Hey, welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Muscarra.

In today's episode, we are going to be talking about the A B C model.

More to come on what that is and why it's important in a moment.

First, let's settle in by focusing on the sound of the bells,

giving it our full presence, full awareness all the way until it dissolves into silence. Okay, so the ABC model. What is it? Why is it important? Well, this is a practice that derives from cognitive behavioral

therapy. And if you've ever been to a therapist and really even if you've ever been to coach you've probably

been exposed to some form or derivative of cognitive behavioral therapy so the ABC model is a very simple way

to understand some of the basics of CBT,

which is cognitive behavioral therapy.

So what is A, B, and C stand for?

Well, A stands for activating event.

B stands for belief, and C stands for consequence.

Now what this is is a way And C stands for consequence.

Now what this is is a way for us to understand

how a stimulus can get filtered through

our particular belief system and then create some sort of response or action consequence.

So if you haven't yet listened to, I believe it's the sixth episode of practicing human it's

titled the most important idea that can change our life something like that

it's the one where I talk about between stimulus and response there is a space in that space is our power to

choose our response and our response lies our growth in our freedom.

If you haven't listened to that I would go back to that.

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