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Tips For Rational Thinking

Healthylife® Weigh

Part 4

Use these tips to decide if an alternate thought is helpful for problem-solving. You can allow your thoughts and actions to cause anxiety. Or, you can view them as part of everyday life choices that you can manage.

1. Ask: Is your thought based on facts?

2. Identify what you are trying to do. Know your purpose.

3. Consider many different outcomes and their effects.

4. View the situation from many perspectives.

5. Don’t assume a situation will have the same outcome as it did in the past.

6. Have good evidence for a generalization before you make it.

7. Avoid assuming one event caused another just because they happened at the same time.

© American Institute for Preventive Medicine

January 23, 2026
Four Ways To Develop Empathy

WELL-BEING

The ability to empathize with those around you is essential to healthy relationships. Empathy is essentially the act of understanding and sharing someone else’s feelings.

The more you can empathize, the easier it is to connect with other people.

While empathy may come naturally to some people, for others, it is more difficult. Thankfully, there are ways you can practice empathy and get better at seeing the world from another’s point of view.

*Be curious about others.Get in the habit of asking questions and really trying to understand what someone else is experiencing.

*Learn to listen.If you want to share the feelings of others, you first have to truly hear what they are saying.

*Practice acts of kindness.When you do something kind for another person, it creates an opportunity to imagine what their life is like.

*Step out of your comfort zone.Experiences like traveling or meeting new people let you see the world in a new way.

© American Institute for Preventive Medicine

January 23, 2026

Tag: perspective

Tips For Rational Thinking

Four Ways To Develop Empathy