Hello and welcome back to practicing human.

The podcast where every day we're practicing getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we are going to continue to explore the ABC model which

I introduced in yesterday's episode.

More to come on that in a bit. First, let's settle in with the

sound of the bells. I'll ring them, you listen, and watch the effect. Okay, so hopefully you feel a little bit more grounded. I like using the bells as a way to center our attention, even if it's only about 10 seconds.

Doing that does help refocus us and get us more present, which then makes us a little bit more receptive to

whatever the message in the episode is. So I do think there's some practical utility

there beyond just feeling a little more grounded.

In yesterday's episode I introduced the ABC model, which you can listen back to to get more of an

overview, but a very brief recap is that the ABC

model is part of cognitive behavioral therapy which is one of the most widely used if

not the most widely used, if not the most widely used, therapeutic modalities that are out there.

And what it stands for is activating event, belief about that event, and the consequence.

And the reason this is useful is it provides a framework for us to understand

where our responses to any given situation might be coming from and also

gives us an ability to start to shift those, which I'll talk more about today.

I also mentioned yesterday that this has a lot of overlap with what we talked about in episode

five between stimulus and response.

There is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response. In our

response lies our growth in our freedom. I do believe that really any

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