Throughout our day, we often have many reactive, negative interactions. In Psychology, we teach that our perception (thoughts) determines our emotions, and our emotions determine how we react. If we have negative thoughts, we then experience negative emotions, which cause us to be reactive and go into a defensive and/or aggressive mode.  There are fifteen common thinking errors we often use as templates to distort our thoughts during an interaction. Any time we have a negative encounter with someone or someone overreacts, one of these thinking errors was used. Filtering – We take negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a … Continue reading Thinking Errors