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In today's episode, Gina shares a number of practical, easy to use tools to help manage and reduce anxious, racing thoughts. Racing thoughts is one of the most dreaded and frustrating symptoms of anxiety and can provoke much suffering on their own. In particular, a technique of active meditation is shared that can be brought with you throughout the day and help ground you in the present moment and unwind from the stress and worry that comes with the racing mind. Listen in for this helpful practical information and get started today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. FREE MUST-HAVE RESOURCE FOR Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety Anxiety Coaches Podcast Group Coaching link ACPGroupCoaching.com To learn more, go to: Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership: For $5 a month, all episodes are ad-free! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.com/ Here's what's included for $5/month: ❤ New Ad-Free episodes every Sunday and Wednesday ❤ Access to the entire Ad-free back-catalog with over 600 episodes ❤ Premium meditations recorded with you in mind ❤ And more fun surprises along the way! All this in your favorite podcast app! Quote: The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. -Thomas Merton Chapters 0:00:24 Introduction to Managing Racing Thoughts 0:03:06 The Origin of Racing Thoughts 0:04:12 Thought Suppression and the White Bear Phenomenon 0:05:12 Practical Steps for Active Meditation 0:12:52 Enhancing Well-Being with Active Listening 0:14:42 Strategies for Overcoming Racing Thoughts 0:16:40 Influence Your Response to Thoughts Summary In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, Gina Ryan delves into the topic of managing racing thoughts. She reflects on her own struggles with racing thoughts and how she has found ways to overcome them. Gina discusses how suppressing thoughts can make them worse, emphasizing the importance of accepting and managing these thoughts instead. She references Dr. Daniel Wegner's research on thought suppression, highlighting how trying not to think about something often leads to increased focus on it. Gina introduces the concept of active meditation as a practical tool for shifting focus from racing thoughts to present sensations. She details the three steps of active meditation: relaxation, stabilization, and focusing. Through these steps, individuals can cultivate mindfulness, calmness, and clarity of thought. Gina encourages incorporating active meditation into daily routines to enhance overall well-being and alleviate racing thoughts. Furthermore, Gina explores the significance of active listening and empathy in understanding perspectives beyond one's own. By redirecting attention to immediate sensory experiences and practicing empathy, individuals can break the cycle of racing thoughts and find peace in the present moment. She emphasizes the power of choice in influencing responses to thoughts and stresses the benefits of cultivating practices like active meditation and empathetic listening for greater clarity and calmness amidst life's chaos. Gina concludes by encouraging listeners to make small changes in their daily lives to combat anxiety and chronic stress. By incorporating these calming practices gradually, individuals can experience significant improvements in their mental well-being. She leaves listeners with a poignant quote from Thomas Merton about avoiding suffering and urges them to prioritize self-care and mindfulness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Kurt Gray of UNC Chapel Hill joins us for this timely and intriguing discussion about intellectual humility. Simply put, we'll be exploring the importance of knowing you might be wrong (gasp! yes, even you), why this is so important, and what we can do about it to help build human connections and bridge our divides. At a time when complex technology of all sorts is exploding and voluminous information about the world is at our literal fingertips, one commodity in oddly short supply is intellectual humility. And in these polarized times, we've become shockingly convinced that somehow our political allies can decipher reality with utter clarity and it's only our ideological foes who are thoroughly, utterly and so very dangerously WRONG. Kurt says our brains are designed to notice patterns and make generalizations to keep us safe, not so much to find truth with accuracy, and this design quirk leads to us overgeneralizing what we think we know in unproductive ways. He brings a strong argument that this describes you too, sorry (you'll actually be as entertained as you can be when you're learning just how deluded you are). We'll imagine what we might achieve together if we remember to restore intellectual humility to our politics, to our planet, and to our lives. Kurt is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs both the Deepest Beliefs Lab, which studies beliefs around morality and religion, and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. With Harvard's Dr. Daniel Wegner he is the co-author of the book "The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters." Discussion facilitated by Christine White, Executive Director of The Village Square.

We are back with the sixth and final episode of the Fresh Focus podcast's Myth Busters series. We've explored so many topics over the course of the past five episodes- from carbohydrates, to metabolism, to gluten, dairy, the scale, and protein in vegetarian diets. We are rounding out the series with a myth that is a big misconception when people come into the world of nutrition- and that is in order to be healthy, it is necessary to eat “perfectly” 100% of the time.You heard that right! The fact that you need to eat perfectly is entirely a myth. It's just not true. And on top of that, there isn't anybody who expects you to eat perfectly healthy all the time- not even dietitians or dietetic interns do. After all, we are all human and we all have foods that we absolutely love that may not be as nutrient dense.When you put pressure on yourself to eat absolutely perfectly and tell yourself you can never have, say, pizza, you are more likely than not setting yourself up to crave those foods that you deem off limits- even more often than you would otherwise. This concept is explained in psychology as the Ironic Process Theory, first theorized by Daniel Wegner in 1987. This episode will walk you through an exercise in Ironic Process Theory and talk more about how it applies to nutrition.While it is undeniable that food is an important part of health, it's also important to remember that our health is made up of many different dimensions- including mental health, emotional health, intellectual health, and more. Choosing foods that fuel your soul every so often may be just as important as choosing foods that fuel your body.If this episode strikes a chord with you, go ahead and ask your registered dietitian to talk to you about the concept of intuitive eating. It may be just right for you!  

Nesse episódio, vamos explorar a curiosa tendência que as pessoas têm de pensar, de dizer e de fazer a pior coisa possível em cada ocasião. Segundo o pesquisador Daniel Wegner, do departamento de Psicologia da Universidade de Harvard, isso se deve aos chamados “processos irônicos de controle mental”: os mesmos mecanismos que nos alertam e procuram nos proteger em relação aos piores cenários possíveis acabam favorecendo o desencadeamento dos mesmos comportamentos e pensamentos que procuramos evitar.↓Link para o artigo “How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion”, de Daniel M. Wegner: https://estude.link/wegner

Sid has been let down by a close friend. We lean on psychology to understand why this situation stresses him. Then see how a psychological tool helps him process this setback and deal with it using his intellect.Concepts discussed include thought suppression, rumination, expressive writing, coherent self-narrative, and journaling.  Psychologists discussed include Dr. Timothy Wilson, Dr. Daniel Wegner, Jamie Pennebaker, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema.Shownoteshttps://howtolive.life/episode/managing-everyday-stress-part-2Follow us onFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastHowtolive/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcasthowtolive/Information on Podcast & Hosthttps://howtolive.life/ 

Do you find that the more you try to suppress an unwanted thought, the more you can't stop thinking it? Or the more you try to stop worrying about something, the more you worry? It's almost as if your mind is plotting against you. In today's show, I describe how the brain's built-in monitoring process causes you to lose control of your thoughts. We'll look at several experiments done by Harvard researcher Daniel Wegner that illustrate what happens inside your mind when you try to suppress a thought. I'll talk about why purposefully trying to prevent thoughts only increases their power. I'll also show you how having too much on your mind is causing you to focus on all the wrong stuff. Then, I'll outline five techniques you can use to harness your thoughts, gain better control of your mind, and live more peacefully. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Resources: Wegner, D. M. (1994). Ironic processes of mental control. Psychological Review, 101(1), 34-52. “Suppressing the White Bears.” https://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/10/unwanted-thoughts ---------------------------------------- GET IN TOUCH WITH VIRGINIA: Have topics you'd like me to cover? Feel free to email them over to me! And I'd love to hear your feedback on this episode. https://www.souldrivenpurpose.com   souldrivenpurpose@gmail.com Are you ready to live a life with purpose, on purpose, and for a purpose? Check out my website for all my coaching services: https://www.souldrivenpurpose.com/services  Book a FREE Discovery Call: https://www.souldrivenpurpose.com/packages Find me on social media to continue the conversation and for even more content: https://www.instagram.com/souldrivenpurpose https://www.facebook.com/souldrivenpurpose

David Hanscom, M.D. is a board certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in complex spine problems in all areas of the spine. He is the author of Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon's Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain (Vertus Press 2012). Interview Date: 4/13/2013  Tags: David Hanscom, M.D., stress and anxiety, chronic pain, education, dysfunctional families, bullying, Hoffman Institute, Dr. Daniel Wegner paper White Bears, Dr. David D. Burns Feeling Good about Negative Thoughts, negative thoughts, Health & Healing, psychology

During the postpartum period women can think and feel a lot of things: love, exhaustion, excitement, loneliness, joy and sometimes even scary thoughts. All of them are normal, but when the not so good thoughts and emotions come it can be hard to know how to handle them. I'm discussing those scary thoughts new mothers think with Dr. Jane Shomof, a licensed marriage family therapist who specializes in postpartum support and owner and founder of Bloome (https://www.letsbloome.com). We're talking about common scary thoughts new moms think to themselves but never share, thoughts we had after we had our babies, and how to control, normalize and minimize them.Dr. Jane recommends checking out the book "White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts" by Daniel Wegner (https://rstyle.me/+8NRczFjRDf0bBsA7b64mbA)And to see other mothers breaking the stigma and sharing their scary thoughts, check out the hashtag #speakthesecret

Antes de comenzar, me gustaría pedirte una cosa sencilla: durante el próximo minuto intenta pensar en lo que quieras, menos en un oso polar. ¿Qué ha pasado? ¿Has pensado o no? Seguramente se te ha pasado por la cabeza la imagen. No tenías que hacerlo, pero lo hiciste. Y es que el cerebro no entiende el no. Peor, el no da realidad al asunto. Hoy hablaremos de cómo demostrar que una silla no existe, de los experimentos del Dr. Daniel Wegner, y, por supuesto, cómo nos puede ayudar todo esto a ser más efectivos. En este podcast encontrarás reflexiones sobre frases, sentencias, cuentos y todo aquello que pueda estar relacionado de alguna manera con la EFECTIVIDAD. Siempre, por supuesto, sin olvidar las cosas importantes de la vida. Si quieres ver más contenidos como éste (si quieres ser más eficiente, eficaz... si quieres ser más efectivo), te invito a pasarte por mi casa: https://efectivida.es/. Ahí encontrarás la fórmula de la efectividad, para saber si estás siendo realmente efectivo. Y si tienes alguna sugerencia, comentario, duda o quieres que dedique algún capítulo a cierto tema, no dudes en enviarme un mensaje desde el formulario de contacto. Con gusto te responderé lo antes posible. Hasta la próxima. Mientras tanto… ¡que lo pases muy bien! FRASE ÉPICA: “No digas "no puedo" ni en broma, porque el subconsciente no tiene sentido del humor, y lo tomará en serio” - Fecundo Cabral A TENER EN CUENTA: https://efectivida.es/blog/aprender-a-decir-si/ https://psicopico.com/intenta-no-pensar-en-un-oso-polar/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-7h7N3a_k

Antes de comenzar, me gustaría pedirte una cosa sencilla: durante el próximo minuto intenta pensar en lo que quieras, menos en un oso polar. ¿Qué ha pasado? ¿Has pensado o no? Seguramente se te ha pasado por la cabeza la imagen. No tenías que hacerlo, pero lo hiciste. Y es que el cerebro no entiende el no. Peor, el no da realidad al asunto. Hoy hablaremos de cómo demostrar que una silla no existe, de los experimentos del Dr. Daniel Wegner, y, por supuesto, cómo nos puede ayudar todo esto a ser más efectivos. En este podcast encontrarás reflexiones sobre frases, sentencias, cuentos y todo aquello que pueda estar relacionado de alguna manera con la EFECTIVIDAD. Siempre, por supuesto, sin olvidar las cosas importantes de la vida. Si quieres ver más contenidos como éste (si quieres ser más eficiente, eficaz... si quieres ser más efectivo), te invito a pasarte por mi casa: https://efectivida.es/. Ahí encontrarás la fórmula de la efectividad, para saber si estás siendo realmente efectivo. Y si tienes alguna sugerencia, comentario, duda o quieres que dedique algún capítulo a cierto tema, no dudes en enviarme un mensaje desde el formulario de contacto. Con gusto te responderé lo antes posible. Hasta la próxima. Mientras tanto… ¡que lo pases muy bien! FRASE ÉPICA: “No digas "no puedo" ni en broma, porque el subconsciente no tiene sentido del humor, y lo tomará en serio” - Fecundo Cabral A TENER EN CUENTA: https://efectivida.es/blog/aprender-a-decir-si/ https://psicopico.com/intenta-no-pensar-en-un-oso-polar/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-7h7N3a_k

The psychologist Dan Wegner (1948-2013) had a lot of influential work. One of his most popular (and controversial) claims was that conscious will is an illusion. He wanted to sidestep the issue of whether or not "free will" in a metaphysical sense exists, and get to the more psychological issue of why human beings have such a strong feeling that their conscious intention is what causes their actions. Can this be right? What exactly does Wegner mean, and does this mean we should abandon moral responsibility? Rolf and Joe get into the weeds sorting out how psychological insights can inform how we think about philosophical issues.

新知日历 | 喜马拉雅平台首档自制知识资讯类音频节目从专业人士演讲、权威学术期刊、社会热点文章，行业大数据平台，分析报告等各类来源提取新认知、新观点和新趋势，为用户提供每日高品质知识资讯。新技能 | 如何管理职场负面情绪？试试这四招今天我来说职场负面情绪的问题。国内一个研究机构曾对一万多名职场人士做了一个调查，受访者来自包括北上广在内的十多个一线城市。调查发现，超七成的人有中度到重度的厌恶上班情绪。具体症状有情绪不稳定、拖延症发作、暴饮暴食等。专家解释说，随着社会的高速发展和人际关系的日渐复杂，职场负面情绪的问题越来越突出了，那么职场情绪管理就变得越来越重要。当一些负面情绪出现时，我们应该怎么办呢？一些朋友认为情绪天生就有，不受我们控制。一旦负面情绪出现，他们就放任自己沉浸在这种消极的状态里，失去了斗志。严重一些的，可能还会损害同事关系。其实这种想法是不对的。丽莎•巴瑞特（Lisa_Barret）是美国情绪研究的专家，她通过大量的大脑成像研究，发现情绪不是天生的，因为我们的大脑里并不存在能自动触发情绪的结构。相反，情绪是被我们后天创造出来的，也就是说，人是能够控制情绪的。但是我们说的控制并不是简单的压抑。有的人觉得在职场有负面情绪不好，就拼命地压抑这种情绪。但斯坦福大学的教授艾德•巴蒂斯塔（Ed Batista）告诉我们，抑制情绪并不是一个好办法。因为大量的研究表明，刻意抑制情绪只会让它们变得更强烈。举一个例子，哈佛大学教授丹尼尔•魏格纳（Daniel Wegner）曾经做过一项著名的心理学研究。他要求一组参与者不要在脑海中出现一只大白熊的形象。当禁令被解除后，这组参与者脑海中出现大白熊的频率反而远远高于对照组。如果你曾经节食减肥，在那个期间对火锅、麻辣烫产生过强烈的渴望，那么你一定深有同感吧。     既然压抑情绪行不通，那么我们应该怎么做呢？专家们给出的建议是要努力培养“情绪灵活度”。这是什么意思呢？美国情绪与行为专家苏珊•大卫（Susan David）的解释是，我们要学会觉察和接纳负面情绪，然后积极灵活地做出改变。具体要怎么做呢？她给我们支了四招，来听一下： 第一招，察觉。在负面情绪出现的时候，我们要能够识别它。虽然有时候识别情绪很难，但我们还是能够发现一些信号的。一个明显的信号是某种情绪在一段时间内反复出现，这个时候你就要警觉了。比如，你发现自己一直处于自责的怪圈。另一个信号是这个心理状态在过去也出现过。比如你对一位同事有负面看法，然后你发现，你之前对另一位同事也有过非常相似的负面看法，这个时候就要察觉到，这可能是我们自己的负面情绪导致的。第二招是客观化。在察觉到自己的负面情绪后，要学会把主观认识和客观事实分离。比如，“我这个月的指标没有完成，我真是没用”，把这个情绪分解来看，前半句是一个客观事实，但后半句并不是，只是自己的沮丧情绪罢了。这个方法可以让你不被情绪牵着鼻子走。 第三招，接纳。在客观化负面情绪后，我们要学会接受自己的负面情绪，不刻意回避它。苏珊•大卫（Susan David）认为负面情绪是人很正常的反应，所以不要惊慌。我们也要学会同情自己，给自己打气。比如，你可以试着像安慰朋友那样安慰自己。你可以对自己说：“你已经尽力了，所以没必要再垂头丧气。更何况，负面情绪并不能解决任何问题，你需要重新振作。”第四招，运用价值观。安慰了自己之后，该怎么振作起来呢？这个时候我们可以用上自己的价值观，问问自己，目前对自己来说最重要的是什么。然后，你可以把它当作你的行动目标，试着做一些改变。这样一来，就算你在行动中又有了负面情绪，你也能清楚地知道自己的目标在哪里，而不会被情绪捉弄，失去奋斗的方向。以上就是我想和你分享的内容，先察觉、再客观化、然后接纳、最后运用价值观，记住这四招，一起有效地管理负面情绪吧。Source:1. 情绪管理，最容易被忽视的职场能力2. 你并非受情绪所摆布──是你的大脑创造了你的情绪3. 培养情绪灵活度，驾驭职场负面情绪4. 工作没完没了？因为你不懂得什么叫做选择性放弃！5. 六大原则，管理职场情绪6. 职场“丧班族”报告：近半职场人有严重上班恐惧症撰稿 | 程钰主持人 | 褚笑，前中央人民广播电台主持人，《新知日历》节目总监制主编 | 韩悦思编辑 | 贺喆然节目运营 | 柳婷婷专辑图视觉创意 | 贺归昀主视觉 | 李芳舟

Annie and Chris flip the coin on last week's episode and talk about what happens in the between times. How do you cleanse the mental palate or set up a buffer after a heavy or difficult book that needs time to process? NEW THIS WEEK: Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein The Mind Club by Daniel Wegner and Kurt Gray (new in paperback) If you're interested in any of the books we've talked about lately, you can purchase them directly from us at http://www.bookshelfthomasville.com/shop

Thalia Wheatley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth. Dr. Wheatley completed her doctoral training in social psychology with Timothy Wilson and Daniel Wegner at the University of Virginia. After graduating, she received neuroimaging training as a postdoctoral NIH research fellow with Alex Martin, Ph.D. in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition directed by Leslie Ungerleider. Her research focus is human social intelligence and how that intelligence is achieved by repurposing evolutionarily older neural systems. She has published numerous behavioral and neuroimaging studies on mind perception, social relationships, and emotion, asking such questions as “why are dolls creepy?” and “why is happy music ‘bouncy’?”