Stress diary guide: Alternative questioning to seek clarity, enhance insight and improve understanding in communication.

1. Stress Diary Journal Guides Guide 13: Alternative Questions
Guide 13:
Alternative Questions
Stress Diary Journal
Your Guide The 5 Horsemen
Questions
What is the appropriate questions to ask? 1. What ?
Some key questions to help that what you fear will happen.
evaluate and challenge your happen?
stress-related thoughts.  Is there a more likely 2. Where?
 How good is any of this outcome, chain of events,
ASK these of your thoughts! evidence? Is it bullet proof, or scenario? What has
quite good, weak or happened before when you
 What was the worst that extremely weak? Could you thought your nightmare 3. When?
could happen? defend it in court, if you had scenario was going to
to? happen?
 Could you have died or been
seriously injured?  If the worst case scenario  What would you say to 4. Who?
happens, how would you friend or family member
 Would it help to reinterpret cope and get through it, who told you that this is
the situation as a challenge without escaping? If you what they feared?
or test, rather than a have got through it before 5. Why?
threat? then how could draw on this  Similarly, what would a
to you get through it next friend or family member
 Can you reinterpret the time? say to you if they knew that
bodily sensations as a this is what they feared? 6. How?
signal that you body is  What is the chance that
primed and you’re ready what you fear will happen?
for the challenge, that you Base this on how many
are excited? times it has happened
before and how many times
 What evidence do you have you thought it would
5 Horsemen Questions
 'Where typically does it
'What, Where, When, Who, Why occur?' “Challenge
and How' questions]. your initial
 'Why does this not occur in a
 'Who is involved? 'What kind different situation?' and
of situations causes automatic
stress?'  'How does it occur?'
thoughts
 'When is this kind of Apply these to your initial stress with these
situation likely to thoughts.
occur?'/'When did it occur
questions”
last?'
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