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Common Irrational Beliefs

• It is essential for me to be loved or approved by almost everyone for virtually everything I do.
• I should be thoroughly competent, adequate, and achieving in everything.
• Some people are bad, wicked, and they should be severely punished.
• It is terrible when things are not going the way I want them to go.
• My happiness is externally caused I no ability to control my sorrow or rid myself of negative feelings.
• If something scares me, I should be pre-occupied with it and upset about it.
• It is easier to avoid facing my life difficulties and responsibilities than to undertake more rewarding forms of self-discipline.
• My past is all-important. Because something once strongly affected my life, it should indefinitely do so.
• People and things should be different from the way that they are, and it is shattering if perfect solutions to the grim realities of life are not immediately
found.
• Maximum human happiness can be achieved by inactivity and inaction or by passively "enjoying myself."
• I should always feel happy, confident, and in control of my emotions.
• I must never fail or make a mistake.
• People will not love and accept me as a flawed and vulnerable human being.
• I need everybody’s approval to be worthwhile.
• If I’m not loved, then life is not worth living.
• If I’m alone, then I’m bound to feel miserable and unfulfilled.
• My worthy-ness depends on my achievements (or my intelligence or status or attractiveness).
• People who love each other shouldn’t fight.
• I should not feel angry, anxious, inadequate, jealous or vulnerable.
• People should always be the way I expect them to be.

Perception Cycle Exercise

Eliminate Irrational, Negative or Self-Limiting Beliefs

Unless we focus our minds on the task of challenging our beliefs, our subconscious mind simply accepts unchallenged irrational, self-limiting beliefs as real.

With determination and repetition of thought processes, it is as simple to replace a destructive belief with a constructive, positive one, as it was to Page93
form the original irrational belief.