Lesson 5: How We Think Impacts How We Act - Slide 12

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Your Thoughts Create Your Emotions

  • Unpleasant feelings indicate that you are thinking something negative and believing it
  • Your emotions follow your thoughts as surely as a baby duck follows its mother
  • But the fact that baby ducks follow faithfully along doesn’t prove the mother knows where she is going
Notes:

Pg. 48, “Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy,” David D. Burns, M.D., Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 1999

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