Struggling with Comparison - Part II
Neurologically, shame shuts down our capacity to be creative, and thus, our ability to see a bigger picture and explore new solutions. One way to adjust these shame-based thought patterns is to practice “mental noting.” Mental noting is a principle in Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT) that helps us separate our judgements from our observations. This can be tricky, because our judgments are often implied and automatic.