We can have two people experience the same event and have two completely different experiences.

Person A loses their job and spirals into fear and overwhelm.

Person B loses the same job and somehow approaches it with calm, clarity, and groundedness, finding opportunity in hardship.

So what's the difference? How that person interprets the event.

Your mind is not a neutral observer of reality. It is a meaning-making system, constantly filtering every experience through your past, your beliefs, your assumptions, and your emotional state.

And when that filter is untrained, it almost always leads you somewhere inaccurate.

This is episode two of Inside the Cognitive Freedom Method™, and today we go one layer deeper.

Inside this episode, I walk you through:

• Why two people can experience the exact same event and interpret it completely differently

• The four categories your mind uses to make meaning of everything that happens to you

• Why events don't create your emotions directly, and what actually does

• What cognitive distortions are and why they are quietly running your reactions

• Six of the most common distorted thinking patterns, including catastrophizing, mind reading, and fortune telling

• Why your brain does this, and how understanding it is the first step to changing it

• How identifying a distortion creates distance from it, and why that distance gives you choice

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Dr. Shyamala Kiru is a former psychotherapist of 20 years and the founder of Kiru Psychotherapy Clinic and the Cognitive Freedom Method™.

Through her work in leadership development, practitioner training, and clinical practice (retired), she teaches a structured framework for understanding and transforming the cognitive patterns that shape how we think, lead, and relate.

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