To understand how to do detective work on your thoughts, see BAILEY’s experiment:

Bailey’s Story

“I found it hard to listen at school.”

— Bailey

Here is an example of the first experiment Bailey did.

  
    1) My thought (rate how strong 0 to 10):
  
     If I hand my homework in, I will fail because of not listening at school (9/10).
 
I will feel like a failure every day for a week (8/10).
  
    2) How can I test the thought.
  
    Hand a homework sheet in I had been putting off.
  
    3) Results:
  
     When I handed my homework in, I felt relieved. I did not fail.
  
    4) What I learned:
  
I didn’t fail. My feelings of failure were lower than if I had not handed it in.

    5) My new thought (rate how strong new thoughts are from 0 to 10):
  
    If I hand in homework, I will not fail due to not listening at school (8/10).
I will feel like less of a failure if I hand my homework in (9/10).

After the experiment, Bailey felt better. It’s important to try lots of experiments to change thinking.

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