141. The Truth Behind Your Thoughts And How to Calm Your Mind (encore)
As you may know, we're still adventuring through The Roots of Resilience (laid out in one of Dr. Emmons book, The Chemistry of Calm). In this episode, we're working on our fourth root, "Calming the Mind." We'll hit on some key insights and strategies that include: Realizing we're thinking and that many of our thoughts are false, embracing the skill of learned optimism, stepping into the role of our observing self, and how we can get more comfortable venturing into our inner-world.
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Key moments:
00:00 Welcome to Joy Lab
00:46 Introducing the Elements of Joy: Hope and Resilience
01:00 A Personal Story: The Power of Our Thoughts
01:58 Challenging Our Beliefs: The Truth Behind Our Thoughts
03:04 The Internet as Our Collective Brain: Navigating Truth and Reality
06:53 Optimism vs. Pessimism: The Impact on Our Mental Health
09:21 The Power of the Observing Self: Gaining Freedom from Our Thoughts
14:57 Unplugging Negative Thoughts: Strategies for a Calm Mind
17:33 Joining the Joy Lab Community: A Call to Action
18:33 Closing Thoughts on Resilience: Wisdom from Alan Watts
Sources and Notes:
- Joy Lab Program: Take the next leap in your wellbeing journey with step-by-step practices to help you build and maintain the elements of joy in your life.
- Subscribe to our Newsletter: Join us over at Joylab.coach for exclusive emails, updates, and additional strategies.
- Check out our favorite resilience-boosting reads: Bookshop.org
- Chemistry of Calm (Dr. Emmons' book referenced in this series)
- Learned Optimism (Seligman book)
- Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind (this is the study of people shocking themselves out of boredom)
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