Automatic negative thoughts

There are several components to the cognitive model.

The ones that I'm going to discuss the most are core beliefs, intermediate beliefs, and automatic thoughts.

So now let's take a look at the first piece of the cognitive model.

And as I move throughout this video, I'm going to build the actual model in these slides, one slide at a time.

Intermediate beliefs move a little bit more toward the surface.

They are deeply held beliefs.

They're often unarticulated and we believe that in combination with situations they create automatic thoughts.

So let's talk about situations.

Because...

While I don't think thoughts are your reality, I think sometimes if we can allow and foster a little bit more of that positive talk within ourselves, I think it becomes easier to ward off the ANTS or the automatic negative thoughts.

I always thought that's such a cool acronym, ANTS.

because they're so quick.

And sometimes we don't even think about it.

Other scoring technique.

Other scoring technique is based on the most recent studies in automatic thoughts.

Now we have to backtrack a bit, and I will explain the concept of automatic thoughts.

According to cognitive behavioral therapies, in cognitive behavioral therapies, we believe that people have a series of sentences, a series of statements about themselves, about other people, and about the world, and that these sentences, these statements, play in the person's mind like some kind of tape recorder, constantly on the loop.

These sentences could be positive sentences or negative sentences.

So we can have a situation where a person would have negative sentences about his body or her body, more commonly her body, and for example, stop eating or reduce food intake dramatically, which would lead of course to eating disorders.

and so on and so forth.

So these are negative sentences, and these sentences, because they play in the person's mind all the time, and they are autonomous, they are not provoked by anything, but they are constantly there, we call them automatic thoughts.

Like he said, I'm Kaisa, one of the pastoral apprentices, and I'm super stoked to be with you guys today because we're talking about a really fun topic because we're family.

And families talk about the hard things and the hard thoughts, and we always go to the Word of God together.

So...

Amen.

We're jumping back into the sermon series that Levi started last week called Facts or Feelings.

Because our thoughts determine how we feel, but 678, with God's help, over time, we can actually change our thoughts.

Amen.

We're going to look at a very specific automatic negative thought.

And in any kind of environment that's high importance and high uncertainty, thoughts, emotions, feelings can tend to skew towards what could be considered the negative.

So we are gonna have what I call, again, to use my term here, ANTs, automatic negative thoughts.

Automatic negative thoughts, emotions, feelings.

Automatic negative thoughts, emotions, feelings.

I say my terms.

That comes from CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy, but it's a term I use all the time.

So to speak to what you're asking me, it's likely you're going to have ANTs, automatic negative thoughts, emotions, feelings.

When you have your ANTs, there are all kinds of different things that you can do to bring yourself back, whether that's using a match script, game script, whether that's using your game face or other tools and techniques.