Positive Reframing

Associated Health Areas: Alcohol, Anxiety, Communication Skills, Communication Styles, Compassion Fatigue, Debt, Depression, Disabilities, Drugs, Emotional Abuse, Family Finance, Financial Planning, Fitness, General Health, Healthy Ageing, Illness, Mental Abuse, Narcissistic, Personality, Personality Disorder, Sleep Apnea, Smoking, Stress, Work Life Balance

Exercise Summary

Different individuals can share the same experience but walk away with a different perspective and interpretation.
• Positive reframing is about finding the good in a situation that is negative. In other words, learning to see the good in the bad.
• Rather than focusing on the negative consequences, positive reframing teaches you to look for opportunities of growth in the future.

Main Activity

Next time I see myself reacting irrationally when I'm dealing with someone else I will try and see the situation from their point of view

Always consider that there are three points of view in any situation or interaction – (i) what happened as I saw it, (ii) what happened as the other person saw it, and (iii) what really happened

We suggest a frequency of: Daily

and it could last 15

minutes

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