Lesson 6: Managing Cravings And Urges - Slide 19
Key Points To Remember
About Relabeling
- Label your unwanted thoughts as what they really are: obsessions and compulsions
- It won’t make the thoughts and urges go away but it will prepare you to change your responses
- When you change your behavior, you change your brain
- The key is to strengthen your
ability to stand outside yourself
and observe your feelings and
actions with mindful awareness
Notes:
Pg. 38, Schwartz, Jeffrey, M., 1996, “Brain Lock, Free Yourself From Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior, A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method To Change Your Brain Chemistry,” Regan Books/Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
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