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