Psychotherapy, or at least most cognitive and behavioral ones, offer various tools to cultivate such skills. The most emblematic one surely being the columns used in cognitive restructuring. They are usually oriented toward a specific diagnosis, but one can find plenty of free worksheets online. It sounds like a good place to start to get inspiration, if one’s interested. But note that this demands quite the commitment : rewiring one’s own thought process is no easy task.
Upon researching the term, I’m not confident this is the right term anymore, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen and/or heard that the skill sets those techniques helps you get are considered as a subset of what is coined by the umbrella term “cognitive flexibility”. The first results I get seem to associate this with the ability to adapt to change (in information, environment...) first and foremost, rather than being able to juggle between different theories or explanations, so I am either mistaken or the latter tends to get overshadowed by the former. If someone can clear things for me, that would be appreciated.
Surely adapting those tools, or creating new, specific ones, for general purpose mental hygiene, so to say, rather than helping with various specific diseases, could be interesting. I suppose some people in personal development already tried, but it’s pretty hard discerning who you can trust in that field, and I’m really not familiar with it. Pushing academia to put more effort in non-clinical application is probably worthwhile. Just like I don’t need to have any deficiency to profit from accurate nutritional information, I don’t need to be anxious or depressed to benefit from education about how I to healthily deal with my own thoughts.
That said, it is painfully hard to make real progress with this, even with guidance (which is either saturated, very expansive and/or unreliable it seems...), and without institutionalization (schools, workplace programs...) I’m not sure whether it’s worth the expanses. But mentally ill people are not representative of the whole population, and similar things like mood regulation programs have been implemented in schools already and show what seems to me like promising results for such innovative interventions, so my two cents is that it’s at least worth a shot.
(It might be obvious, but mandatory disclaimer anyway : not a specialist, just interested in such things)
Psychotherapy, or at least most cognitive and behavioral ones, offer various tools to cultivate such skills. The most emblematic one surely being the columns used in cognitive restructuring. They are usually oriented toward a specific diagnosis, but one can find plenty of free worksheets online. It sounds like a good place to start to get inspiration, if one’s interested. But note that this demands quite the commitment : rewiring one’s own thought process is no easy task.
Upon researching the term, I’m not confident this is the right term anymore, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen and/or heard that the skill sets those techniques helps you get are considered as a subset of what is coined by the umbrella term “cognitive flexibility”. The first results I get seem to associate this with the ability to adapt to change (in information, environment...) first and foremost, rather than being able to juggle between different theories or explanations, so I am either mistaken or the latter tends to get overshadowed by the former. If someone can clear things for me, that would be appreciated.
Surely adapting those tools, or creating new, specific ones, for general purpose mental hygiene, so to say, rather than helping with various specific diseases, could be interesting. I suppose some people in personal development already tried, but it’s pretty hard discerning who you can trust in that field, and I’m really not familiar with it. Pushing academia to put more effort in non-clinical application is probably worthwhile. Just like I don’t need to have any deficiency to profit from accurate nutritional information, I don’t need to be anxious or depressed to benefit from education about how I to healthily deal with my own thoughts.
That said, it is painfully hard to make real progress with this, even with guidance (which is either saturated, very expansive and/or unreliable it seems...), and without institutionalization (schools, workplace programs...) I’m not sure whether it’s worth the expanses. But mentally ill people are not representative of the whole population, and similar things like mood regulation programs have been implemented in schools already and show what seems to me like promising results for such innovative interventions, so my two cents is that it’s at least worth a shot.
(It might be obvious, but mandatory disclaimer anyway : not a specialist, just interested in such things)