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• Introspection is the basis of mental health. With introspection, you can explore who you are. You learn how to note which parts of you have to change. You learn how to keep yourself in check when you’re going over the top. You actually get to know yourself more when you introspect.
• 13.1.2. Self-help Cognitive Therapy Again, this will entail another journal. But this therapy does not require too much of introspection, unlike in Psychoanalysis. While Psychoanalysis requires more of dredging up your childhood and your past, Cognitive Therapy, on the other hand, focuses on the present and on correcting erroneous thoughts as they ...
• other person's motives, or a statement of how that thought could not be wholly true. For example, you said in your entry that: “That man bumped into me on purpose! He must be out to get me!” Ask yourself, was the bump totally on purpose? Is there no possibility that it was just an accident? Or, for example you wrote, “No one will ever love me!” Foc...
• when you do, make it a point to rebut yourself. Make it a point to train yourself to think realistic, if not optimistic thoughts. •  If you have already mastered the art of realistic to optimistic thinking, you can already move on, and possibly write in your journal less frequently, if you think you don't need it anymore. But if you find that it en...