The process involves challenging your emotional beliefs so that automatic thoughts are interrogated before being accepted.

• Practice validity testing. If you feel sure that your work has not been of the expected standard, you must search for objective evidence to prove that this belief is true.
• Write in a journal. Journaling is a great way to pay attention to your thought patterns.
• Discuss your emotions. If you feel anxious about work, you may struggle to accurately assess your performance. Talking to a trusted colleague or friend about your concerns could give you a much-needed objective view.

Recent research described emotional reasoning as a mechanism that “can lead people to take their emotions as information about the external world, even when the emotion is not generated by the situation to be evaluated.”

This leads to inaccurate emotional truths