The rule of reframing can look different depending on what you're dealing with. But it always involves seeing a problem from a different angle, with the goal of breaking a cycle of harmful thoughts and behavior.

Gently shifting your own perspective in a journal this way could lead to you being able to do it on the spur of the moment, as stressful events unfold. One interesting finding of the above study is that people who practiced this technique scored higher on a measure of emotional resiliency, i.e., they were more likely to believe that they were