Fill in the table below using these steps.

• Write out an adversity in your own life and the consequence.
• What belief or feeling did you have to have in order to have the consequence?
• Then, debate, distance, or distract and change the belief. Ask “How will that affect the consequence?”
• Finally, write down how this process makes you feel in the Energization column.

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