Hello and this is

practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life. I'm your host Cori

Muscarra and this is officially the first podcast I am recording on the day of releasing.

Most podcasts I record the day before or two days before, but I am getting home late from New York City, back on Long Island, and it is 1230 in the morning. For the record my bedtime is around 930.

So let's see how this goes. I can officially say today we're going to talk about blank and quite literally I mean today.

So today is going to be part three of our multi-part series on the ABC model,

specifically how we work with stubborn belief systems

that don't seem to want to change.

More to come on that in a bit.

First, let's settle in with the sound of the bells.

Make this your 15 second meditation,

follow the sound from that microsecond

and begins all the way until it dissolves into silence.

The So two days ago, episode 44 I believe, I introduced the ABC model, which is a model used in cognitive behavioral therapy. It's the idea that in any moment there can be an activating event, which we might think of as a stimulus, that's the A, then we're going to have a belief about that event,

what it means, how we interpret it, that's the B, and then that belief about the event will create some sort of consequence.

This is how we react, how we make sense or internalize it, what emotion might arise.

And in yesterday's episode, we explored that the main thing

we can adjust there and work with is the belief,

because the belief is the lens

through which we experience the activating event.

When the belief shifts, it's like using a different lens.

And when we see something through a different lens,

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