Cognitive therapy is similar to what we usually call “mind change”. Most of the reasons why we feel bad are because we have a bad “mindset”, which in cognitive psychology is equivalent to “negative automatic thinking”. A person’s upbringing will “shape” his or her inherent “core beliefs”, which are similar to one’s worldview and values, hidden deep inside the person’s heart and not easily They are not easily expressed or realized, but they are the driving force that guides and drives people’s lives, and they implicitly influence their thinking and behavior. When people encounter a life event, their “core beliefs” drive their minds to a thought that determines their emotions and behavior, which cognitive psychology calls “automatic thinking. If we compare the human psyche to a tree, then “automatic thinking” is the leaves and “core beliefs” are the roots of the tree. In other words, a person’s “automatic thinking” comes from his or her deeper “core beliefs”. For example, if a person’s core belief is “I am incapable”, he will tend to selectively pay attention to certain information related to this core belief in life, and even if there is positive information, he will Even if there is positive information, the person will tend to interpret it negatively and will continue to believe and defend this belief. Cognitive therapy is to correct and adjust the original core belief by identifying one’s negative automatic thinking, presenting evidence, examining evidence to test the false assumptions of one’s negative automatic thinking, and then replacing the negative automatic thinking with rational thinking. In this process, the therapist or the patient himself acts as a “defense attorney”: “In challenging your thoughts, you can imagine yourself being brought to a trial where the plaintiff (automatic thinking) has been suing you, labeling you as incompetent, weak and so on. Now it’s your job to play defense attorney and attack this evidence. You must take this job seriously.” Remember: cognitive therapy requires identifying irrational cognitions in action, replacing irrational cognitions in action, and changing core beliefs in action, so action is important. Cognitive behavioral therapy is not about simply changing cognitions, but experiencing and modifying them in action.