Thinking About Your Thinking

Metacognition is one of my favorite topics so we are going to circle back to it once again.

Did you know that metacognition, or thinking about one’s thinking, is a higher order thinking skill?

Metacognition helps you slow down, stop, and think about your thoughts.

Are your thoughts running wild?

Are you feeling anxious?

Are you feeling nervous?

Are you feeling afraid?

Are you feeling angry?

When we stop, feel, and sit with thoughts we recognize not only the emotion we are feeling but also the thinking patterns that are happening that tag along with it.

Metacognition helps you decipher between true thoughts and false thoughts about yourself, others, situations, events, and perceptions.

Humans think A LOT all day long. What we do not stop and think about to heal and feel will build up within us like a clogged sink. Not fun to have to fix in the long run.

One Simple Metacognition Exercise:

1. Set a timer for 3 minutes.
2. Write down something that has been on your mind today that may cause anxiousness, fear, anger, or make you nervous.
3. What are you feeling?
4. What thoughts are happening in your mind? Write them down.
5. What are you trying to avoid, confront, or solve?
6. What control do you have in this situation?
7. Write down 1-2 pages of thoughts in a form of brain dumping (not trying to solve, figure out, or think). Just write to release the old thinking.
8. Check in. How do you feel now?

There are many metacognition skillsets that must be addressed to walk in these skills daily.

I hope this is one way to help you improve your thinking.

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Take care,

Dr. Amanda Helman

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