Members,
Once you’ve identified your negative core beliefs you can begin to
challenge and change them. This means that you’ll be challenging the
source of your depression. However, in order to challenge your negative
core beliefs you need to identify and test out some new positive
core beliefs.
Instead of focusing on the negative core beliefs you have about
yourself, the world, other people and the future, we’re going to get you
to focus on developing new and more positive core beliefs. In order to
do that, we want you to think about how you’d like to be, how you’d like
the world and other people to be, what you’d like the future to look
like.
As the first step towards developing more positive core beliefs
we’d like you to ask and answer the following questions. Write out your
answers in the space provided before you move on to the next page:
Questions about Yourself
1. What would you like to be like?
2. What kind of person would you like to be?
3. How would you like to behave?
4. What would you like to believe about yourself?
5. How would you be acting differently if you believed that about
yourself?
- Jason, Health Educator
