Exercise: Write down 5 of your worst thoughts and do the kill the ANTs exercise on each one.
Kill the ANTs Exercise: For Each of your ANTs go through these steps.
- Question 1: Is it true?
- Question 2: Is is ABSOLUTLY true? Do you know it with 100% certainty?
- Question 3: How do I feel when I believe this thought? How do I act with this thought? What is the outcome of having this thought?
- Question 4: How would I feel and act and what would be the outcome if I couldn’t have this thought?
- Question 5: Turn the thought around to its opposite then ask if the opposite of the thought is true, or even truer than the original thought?
Author – Brian Ahlering