Title: Identifying Your Irrational Beliefs Can Improve Your Well-Being - Exploring your mind
Headings: Identifying Your Irrational Beliefs Can Improve Your Well-Being
Identifying Your Irrational Beliefs Can Improve Your Well-Being
What are irrational beliefs?
The twelve most important irrational beliefs
1. Need for approval
2. Guilt and condemnation
3. Frustration leads inexorably to depression
4. Human suffering is inevitable because it is caused by external events and other people
5. You must worry about potential threats and dangers
6. It’s easier to avoid than to face situations
7. You need to trust others who are stronger than yourself
8. Fear of failure and incompetence
9. The burden of past traumas on the present
10. You must have perfect control over things
11. You can achieve happiness without effort, by inertia, or without doing anything
12. You don’t have control over your own emotions and there are some emotions you can’t avoid
Five Fatalistic Beliefs that Paralyze You

Content: Or maybe you had an argument with your best friend and you thought you’d never talk to each other anymore. But that didn’t happen either. As you can see, sometimes your irrational beliefs play tricks on you and make you feel bad. However, there’s no real reason to back them up. “You mainly feel the way you think.” -Albert Ellis-
What are irrational beliefs? Irrational beliefs are the ideas you have about yourself, others, and the world, that don’t correspond with reality. They usually manifest in the form of “I should” or “I have to”. Furthermore, you consider them as obligations you must fulfill. Irrational beliefs create discomfort because they impose conditions on a person’s worth and happiness that are impossible to meet.