Mind Tricks pt. 2

Direct Impact with Andrea Epting

Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist

Season 2 Episode 26

9/18: Mind Tricks pt 2

Episode Summary 

Welcome back everyone - Let’s continue down our list of mind tricks to use when we find ourselves disregulated or leaning into old, unwanted behaviors.

Episode Highlights:  

1. Opposite action - Doing the opposite action of what we are craving 
   1. Doesn’t have to be the complete opposite, can just be a better choice 
   2. Make a big deal of it
   3. Creates new habits, new neural pathways
   4. “I could do this, but I can choose a healthy opposite action”
2.  Tell somebody.. Say it out loud - Identify these negative cognitions out loud 
   1. Does this sound true or irrational? 
   2. Community is important - say it out loud, and allow someone to reflect and react
3.  Name it to tame it - notice/acknowledge the feeling or emotion attached to the craving 
   1. Don’t attach to them, but spend time with and name these emotions

1.  Radical Accountability - wacky, silly, or extreme ways to get ourselves through the cravings 
2. *Urge surfing - sitting in our disregulations and negative emotions until they pass
   1. This is a challenging practice that requires mental muscles 
   2. Sitting through thoughts and cognitions, discovering the feelings underneath them, maybe connecting to them

Call to action: You now have ten new mind tricks to use; implement one this week!

Episode mentioned: s2 ep 25 - mind tricks pt 1

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