[jasminetea]

I've been a believer in CBT (basically no emotion is born without a thought behind it) for a while now and I've worked hard at implementing it, but with very little success.

Yesterday it was put to me that while we exacerbate our feelings/emotions with what we think, sometimes that process is far too quick for the thought to be conscious and thus they are not able to be questioned and put into perspective.

So, it would seem to me that the thought in a case like that is not so much 'thought' as an ingrained, instinctual belief about the world and as such can't be questioned when it arises and before it instigates the emotion. It can only be addressed after the feeling has occured and any actions taken as a result of that feeling. Addressing the thought after the circumstance seems to have very little effect on stopping it occuring again.

Is there a solution to this? Is there another way to address this inaccurate and damaging thinking or beliefs?