1. Cognitions &
Happiness
How does way you
think affects the
way you feel?
Based on the
textbook chapter
by Alison Bryant

3. Subjective Wellbeing
A person’s evaluation of their life,
including both their cognitive
judgments of satisfaction, and their
appraisal of their emotions and mood.

4. Cognitions
All forms of knowing
and awareness

5. What influences our thoughts?
Self-esteem
Cognitive appraisal
Explanatory style
Self-efficacy

6. Self-esteem
How a person sees, thinks and
feels about themselves.

7. Cognitive appraisal
How a person interprets an
event or situation.
Was it good or bad?

8. Explanatory style
How a person explains and
describes an event or
situation.
Do you have
an optimistic
or pessimistic
explanatory
style?

9. Self-efficacy
The belief that one can
perform adequately.

10. Self-fulfilling
prophecy
What could you be eliciting from a situation or
person with a false belief you may hold?

11. Become consciously aware of your thoughts…

12. The power for change
Rational emotive behaviour therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Affirmations

13. Rational emotive behaviour therapy
Conquer self-defeating thoughts by
replacing them with more rational
thoughts.

14. Acceptance and commitment therapy
Observe cognitions for what they
are – language, words, pictures –
as opposed to what they appear to
be, threatening truths and facts.

15. Affirmations
A positive statement said to
counteract a negative belief.

16. You have the
power
Create what you want to experience in your world!

17. GUARD YOUR
THOUGHTS…

18. They are
incredibly
powerful
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