The cognitive triangle visually represents the interconnectedness of thoughts, emotions, and behavior. It illustrates how thoughts influence emotions, leading to actions that, in turn, affect thoughts, creating a continuous cycle. This cycle persists without intervention to disrupt the pattern. Thoughts, ...
In our triangle, it would look like this: However, if we imagine that you have a friend who is not afraid of dogs and actually likes them very much, your friend’s thoughts, feelings and actions might be very different: REMEMBER: One thing to notice in these 2 examples is that the ...
This leads to more obsessive thoughts such as ‘Oh my God, I’m interested in this guy when I am already in a relationship’, and this leads to a lot of feelings of fear, shame, and guilt and inevitably a lot of uncertainty about the future of the relationship. As already explained t...
Each node in the triangle can impact, and be impacted by, any other node. Notice that our behavior has a direct impact on our thoughts and feelings. “Fake it ‘til you make it” contains a grain of truth. Beeminder and Identity Beyond thought and emotion, tools such as Beeminder can h...