Negative Cognition |
Distortion |
Clarity |
Filtering |
Looking at only one element of a situation to the exclusion of other
important considerations. |
Seeing
the details of a situation in a broader perspective. |
Polarized Thinking |
Tending to perceive everything
at the extremes, with very little consideration of the middle ground. |
Perceiving
both the duality and unity of our
experiences, the world and our choices. |
Overgeneralization |
The tendency make a broad generalized conclusions based
on a limited evidence. |
The
ability to draw accurate conclusions based on the evidence at hand. |
Mind Reading |
The tendency to make snap judgements about what others
are thinking. |
The
recognition that our impressions and understanding of others is limited in
accuracy. |
Catastrophizing |
The tendency to make a mountain out of a mole
hill. Giving undo import to
insignificant events |
The
tendency to give each event the import it is due. |
Control Fallacies |
The tendency to see oneself as helpless and externally
controlled; or as omnipotent and responsible for everyone else |
The
recognition of our will power and agency, and giving everyone the ability to
accept their own karma and responsibility they are capable. |
Fallacies of Fairness |
The tendency to believe that people, nature and the
world is fair and just. |
The
recognition that life and others are not necessarily fair, honest, and
upright. |
Emotional Reasoning |
The
tendency to believe that what one
feels make it true or right. |
The
recognition that feelings are different than truth. |
Fallacy of Change |
The tendency to believe that others will change in the
ways we want them to if we pressure them accordingly. |
The
recognition that others will change when they are ready to change, and
inspiring them to do so according to their own highest vision. |
Global Labeling |
The tendency to make far reaching judgements and
packaging them neatly under one label, leading to bias and prejudice. |
The
tendency to be open minded to make accurate conclusions based on the evidence
at hand, and being open to amend this conclusion in the llight
of new evidence. |
Blaming |
The
tendency to blame others for what is our own responsibility. |
Accepting
of our own karma and responsibility . |
Shoulds |
The tendency to follow inflexible rules about how oneself
and other people should act. |
The
willingness to have flexible, creative and accepting notions have how one
should act. |