The way out

The A, B, C, D, E model is one of the foundational ideas of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. It explains how to change a response.

Coupled with Emotional Hygiene (to preserve the results of practice) it prevents stress, burnout, ensures compassionate motivation to engage constructively and achieve the desired well-being.

1. Reframing — a core strategy to replace a disputed belief with a new, objective perspective.

2. The new framing delivers the meaning of your entire constructive outlook — applied to this specific situation.

Marker: if a framing (beliefs) invokes a destructive response, it is obsolete, based on egocentric views.

3. If you do not have a constructive, systems outlook.

Find and evolve one. Otherwise, it is impossible to eliminate cognitive biases inherent in a habitual egocentric outlook. It is distorting every belief, thought, and emotion.