States of Mind
There are 3 basic states of mind in DBT:
- Emotional mind
- Reasonable mind
- Wise mind
1.Emotion mind occurs when our thoughts are being controlled by our emotions. If the emotions are fear, or anger they may keep our thoughts so volatile that we have trouble being reasonable.
2.Reasonable mind is when we can think logically, be rational about what is occurring.
3.Wise mind is the interception between emotion and reasonable mind. Wise mind is part reason and part emotion and what makes us know we’re in this mind is often a sense of intuition. It can sometimes be described as that “aha” moment, or a “gut feeling”.
