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The main goal: to give you at least one strategy to practice over the week aimed at improving any variety of psychological attributes.
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In this episode, we discuss the RAIN technique. RAIN is a mindfulness technique that aims to mollify the intensity of negative emotions, help you regain self-control, avoid regretful and hurtful actions, and turn you into a master of challenging situations. RAIN is to be employed while in the midst of an emotional storm. It aims to bring awareness to your thoughts, feelings, and reactions; teaches you to accept painful emotions as they are; investigate the truth and nature of what's driving your reactions; and teaches you to dissociate your identity from negative emotions all while nurturing yourself with comforting self-compassion.
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1 Apr 2020
Remaining Unchanged Through Emotional Pain
Unpredictability and change is the law the governs the events we experience every day. We cannot predict, influence, or prevent them.
But does that make us slaves to randomness and chaos?
No. While we cannot influence the universe, we can influence how we respond to it. And it is how we chose to react to the hand we are dealt, which sets our lives down our individually unique paths.
However, many live with only the illusion of autonomy over our reactions. We allow negative experiences to "make" us emotional, angry, and confrontational. In turn, we take rash action and project our emotions, often causing confrontations; creating unnecessary pain and suffering for both ourselves and others.
Knowing how to react to emotionally charging events opens the gate to true autonomy over your life. It can protect your mental health, help you make logical decisions, and save your relationships from conflict and turmoil brought on by your hand.
It was a skill revered by the stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius, and today, you, too, will take the first steps to cultivate it; for the sake of yourself, your life, and those who mean the most to you.
3 Mar 2020
How to Cultivate Creativity
Creativity separates one from the rest. It is the strength that fights against mediocrity, mundanity, tediousness, and stunted personal and professional growth. People don’t get ahead by doing the same thing over and over again – its how you take initiative and stand out from the rest, which allows you to make your mark on the world.
This episode dives into the science of creativity. It forces you to think critically about your own lives and the pleasure/ well-being you derive from it. This episode will challenge you to take the initiative to choose to use creativity to better yourself or the lives of others.
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22 Feb 2020
Cultivating Perspective
Everyday we face small, but significant, challenging and frustrating events that irritate us, anger us, and ultimately compromise our ability to remain calm and positive. Situations like being talked down to, cut off in traffic, given the wrong order; but these events will happen to us all the time, and we can get as mad, annoyed, and angry as we want, it will not change the fact that there is nothing we can do to stop these events from negatively impacting our lives.
Perspective not only helps us realize when our negative reactions to unchangeable events are compromising our well-being, but allows us to reconceptualize the events into positive and constructive ones. This episode dives into how to use the character strength of perspective to your advantage in order to cultivate a better sense of control and well-being in uncontrollable events... among a few other skills regarding better decision making.
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22 Feb 2020
How to Cultivate Everyday Bravery
Bravery is the strength that overcomes anxiety, procrastination, and fear. Without it, we would never push ourselves, heal from mental illness, or accomplish our most desired goals. Everyday-bravery is the ability to remain productive and mindful through uncomfortable, anxiety-producing events. Examples of such events being dealing with challenging people, playing contact sports, pushing through procrastination, and continuing to attack a task or goal while your mind projects its most negative thoughts. Everyday bravery is essential to work workplace productivity, cultivating social relationships, and allowing yourself to experience the wonders of breaking through your comfort zone. In this episode, I will discuss the psychology of bravery and offer practical tips to living a life filled with bravery and virtue.
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