Do you know what crystallized intelligence is?
Well, the knowledge that comes through learning and experience that helps improve life.
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Did you know that dreams depict our desires, thoughts, and motivations and reveal our unconscious?
So it's good to ask your client about their dreams and find out about them. Then you can formulate a better treatment for them.
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A cognitive bias is when we're inclined to or against something.
Note that a cognitive bias is different from a cognitive distortion, which is a thinking error.
Here are the most common ones:
Do you know what suggestion is?
What others tell us or how they treat us can affect us psychosomatically. That's suggestion.
There's also self-suggestion, which comes from within a person and influences them.
Our childhood experiences shape us as adults.
Healthy experiences lead to well-adjusted adults, unhealthy ones to adults with relationship problems and self-esteem issues, or even mental disorders.
What can be done? The answer is psychotherapy, meditation, affirmations (self-suggestion), and journaling.
Mindfulness meditation is a powerful tool that can lead to therapeutic effects for your clients on its own but is even more powerful when combined with psychotherapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy.
But what's mindfulness meditation? Well, it's an exercise where you relax and focus, freeing yourself from negative thoughts and fears.
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Do you know about cognitive distortions?
As the name suggests, these distort our thoughts and perception of reality.
In the following article, you'll learn more about many of them:
Do you know what emotional intelligence (the ability to understand one's feelings) is and how it differs from social intelligence?
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Do you know what the intelligence quotient (IQ) is?
It's a value that measures intelligence and helps predict functioning in life (although it cannot measure creativity or social intelligence).
Here's an IQ test you can take for free:
Do you know what social intelligence is?
It's the ability to understand others and to know what moves them.
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