Mental filter

When thinking through a mental filter, a person is focusing only on a single aspect of a situation, and filtering out everything else. And this way, they completely ignore everything that disagrees with that detail. Mental filtering plays a big part when it comes to how we judge experiences, which magnify the aspects of past experiences, and then ultimately trigger an automatic response for future events.

by picking out a single negative or positive detail, and focusing on only that, you convince yourself that the whole situation is positive or negative. A person who is overly optimistic, is using a mental filter, and the same is true for an overly pessimistic person.

Both positive and negative filters can lead someone to act irrationally. Remember, mental filtering, like all cognitive distortions, clouds our ability to see situations clearly.

“ it’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

-Epictetus- stoic philosopher.

Stay Mindful

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