Mental fitness and recovery skills for human brains.
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Will seeking discomfort get rid of intrusive thoughts and anxiety?
Mark Freeman
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Why use a meditation bench?
How is mindfulness relevant to intrusive thoughts?
Moving attention around
Why meditate if not to get something?
Can you be happy with intrusive thoughts?
Giving happiness and validation (to you)
Can you get happiness?
Happiness + mindfulness
Is feeling good bad?
Triggering ERP workouts based on freedom to live
Feels like suppressing to not do the compulsions?
Are you a bad person?
Present actions, not future fake treasure
Instead of chasing the 'click', what do we do?
Are you chasing treasure that doesn't exist?
Beware the "click"
Brain changing topics!
Avoiding bad things vs creating good things
Compulsions to avoid avoidance
Avoidance compulsions' double damage
Is avoidance a compulsion?
Real event guilt points at useful things (that are probably unexpected)
Is there a feared consequence behind "good" obsessions?
Is everything a compulsion?!
But how do we change big, complex systems creating stress and uncertainty?
We can accept stress AND change the systems creating it
Do intrusive thoughts always mean something?
Making space for mental fitness workouts (with kindness to ourselves)
Values when feeling tired
When work requires checking...
How do we get comfortable with pain and loss intrusive thoughts bring up?
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How loss relates to intrusive thoughts and recovery
Why "Stealing Happiness"?
What if it's real AND objectively terrible?
When it feels "real"...
Using values to guide ERP exercises
Planning ERP around where we're going
Can ERP turn into an avoidance compulsion?
Learning about perception at a meditation retreat.
Hearing sounds that aren't there
Perceived Social Support for Mental Health
Why is perception important?
Examples of care - from getting to giving
(Not) caring less about intrusive thoughts
Values with Terrible Intrusive Thoughts
The fear of trying (wrong things)...
A practical alternative to chasing perfection...