Cognitive Fusion: When Thoughts Become Reality

Cognitive fusion is a mental phenomenon. It’s when the line between you and your thoughts becomes blurred. In other words, you believe your thoughts and they become your reality. This thought pattern could cause you a lot of discomforts. For this reason, it’s important to learn to distance yourself from your thoughts. Thoughts are often biased, irrational, or illogical. As such, reality and identity involve much more than just thoughts. What else do we know about this concept? How can we fight it? In this article, we’ll explain this and share an exercise that can help you stray from cognitive…