Beach Balls

Hey, you're a fellow CBT enjoyer, right? We're all pretty well-adjusted here, aren't we? Well, it's funny to think about the sort of feedback loop it suggests: our thoughts turn into feelings which turn into behaviors, in turn reinforcing or changing our thoughts; this goes ad infinitum until you die. CBT is about making sure our thoughts are conducive to behaviors that keep us healthy. Thoughts are a funny thing; they're these fleeting little impulses that dictate such a large portion of our lives, yet when out and about in the world doing things or engaging in conversation, they become a strange background process that keeps us turning. But for me, I struggle with turning them into a background process. I remember one of my high school English teachers, the GOAT Jay Garrett (I usually don't name people here but he deserves it because he is such a profoundly amazing man) blowing my sixteen-year-old mind when he taught us about metacognition, or as he referred to it, Thinking Squared.…