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    The document discusses shifting one's focus from internal thoughts, feelings, and sensations to external factors such as surroundings. It notes that an internal focus can lead to critical, anxious, or unhelpful thoughts as well as anxious feelings and avoidance behaviors. An external focus involves noticing colors, objects, or people around you. The document provides a diagram showing how events and thoughts can lead to emotions and behaviors, and gives an example of how negative thoughts about a job interview can cause anxiety and the desire to avoid the interview.

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    Internal To External Focus

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    Gînțăgan Denisa Gabriela
    The document discusses shifting one's focus from internal thoughts, feelings, and sensations to external factors such as surroundings. It notes that an internal focus can lead to critical, anxious, or unhelpful thoughts as well as anxious feelings and avoidance behaviors. An external focus involves noticing colors, objects, or people around you. The document provides a diagram showing how events and thoughts can lead to emotions and behaviors, and gives an example of how negative thoughts about a job interview can cause anxiety and the desire to avoid the interview.

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    Switch Your Focus from Internal To External

    1. External focus 2. Events 3. Thoughts 4. Emotions & Behaviours

    Emotions
    Healthy Feelings
    Thoughts
    Unhealthy Feelings
    Attitudes
    Physical Sensations
    Rules
    Switch your focus from Demands
    Beliefs
    internal – critical, anxious or Images
    unhelpful thoughts, anxious Your current focus: Meanings
    feelings and physical The world
    Other People
    sensations, unhelpful Personal Experiences
    behaviours ( avoidance and Personal history
    Future
    safety behaviours) to Self Behaviours
    External – notice your Constructive
    Action
    surroundings, focus in on a Destructive Action
    colour, an object, scan for a
    friendly face.

    Keith Chadwick www.livingcbt.com 2008


    Understanding Your Thoughts, feelings and Behaviour

    1. Events 2. Thoughts & Images 3. Emotions & Behaviour

    Emotions
    Healthy Feelings
    Unhealthy Feelings
    Physical Sensations
    e.g. shaking,
    Triggers: Thoughts/ palpitations,
    The world images dizziness
    Other People Attitudes
    Personal Experiences Rules
    Personal history Demands
    Your Future Beliefs
    Self Focus Images
    Meanings
    Behaviours
    What you do

    Impact on your world

    An example:

    Going for a job interview: ‘If I don’t get this job I’m a failure”

    You experience anxiety (feelings), sweating/perspiration (physical sensation) and a


    strong desire not to attend the interview (behaviour)

    Keith Chadwick www.livingcbt.com 2008

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