One of the most
powerful influences that helps each of us to grow and change is something
called “Emotional Corrective Experience”.
Dr. Hurd defined this therapeutic term as “a first-hand experience that
challenges a previously held, and false or distorted, belief.”
The Medical
Dictionary defined this phenomenon as, when a person changes his or her opinion,
belief, or behavior pattern based on a positive experience. In other words, there is a change in the
ability to cope with something difficult based on this new and positive
emotional information. It is not enough
to “reason” a bad experience away, or a past pattern away; the most sustainable
impact happens when a person re-experiences it in a favorable way.
Human beings are
emotional beings, and so much of how we interpret the world around us is based
on our emotional experience. So, reflect
on some of your negative thoughts and patterns in order to find out how they
became so bad; and ultimately how you can “change” them to have a good
experience instead.
To be continued…
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