Prioritizing is a cognitive reappraisal technique.

By lowering the priority of an event, you can change how you interpret the event.

This isn’t about artificially claiming that an event is unimportant. If the event is important to you, then it has a high priority relative to other events.

However, reasoning through its priority relative to other events is a great way to put the event into the context of your life.

Reprioritize the event.

See also

  1. Decide which cognitive reappraisal technique to use