Inner World Work

Core beliefs influence how we interpret our world around us. Einstein once said "the most important decision we make is whether we live in a friendly or hostile universe" and this perfectly illustrates the role that core beliefs have on our daily life.

The ABCDE model in CBT is a way to understand the role our thoughts play in our feelings and behaviors, and how to find balanced and helpful thoughts.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a great framework for understanding the role our thoughts and beliefs have on how we feel, how we behave and how we interact with life around us. This track is an introduction to this framework with examples.

This is an introduction to the CBT concept of Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs). Starting to understand and identify NATs is key to self awareness, and the starting point for making meaningful changes in our lives. As these NATs are occurring regularly and are so familiar to us, we often don't notice them for what they are.

This somatic meditation practice helps us to shift our identification with limiting core beliefs. Core beliefs influence how we perceive the world, so shifting the limiting core beliefs has a big ripple effect on our daily life.

This guided meditation exercise invites the listener to notice the different effect different thoughts can have on our body. By focusing on different thoughts, and noticing how the body responds to these thoughts, we can become aware of how our thinking affects how we feel.

In this track we explore the negativity bias and how it plays out in our daily life. By becoming aware of it, understanding its function and role, we can identify it and not be run by it.

We so often subconsciously look to confirm our beliefs about ourselves and the world, thereby strengthening beliefs that might be inhibiting us, and not seeing the world or others around us.

It is so easy to get caught in our initial automatic thoughts (aka negative automatic thoughts or NATs) that we miss the real story or the real experience happening in front of us.

This exercise can be done written or cognitively and helps walk us through the ABCDE model to help us find a way of thinking about an activating event that is helpful and balanced.