Learn practical tools to address thoughts, emotions, the nervous system and live a life you love.

This channel is intended to help listener learn how to navigate their inner world, to help create an outer world that they love.  Using different therapeutic modalities, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and the teachings of Yoga Nidra and Mindfulness, we will explore how to work effectively with thoughts and emotions, how to resolve issues in the nervous system, create a life you love, and find a sense of internal peace and fulfillment.

General Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

ABCDE Model Introduction

ABCDE Model Exercise

Notice the Effect of Thoughts

Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATS) Introduction

Core Beliefs: How We Perceive Our World

Behind Thoughts, Everyone Has a Story

Negativity Bias

Shifting Core Beliefs

Confirmation Bias

Cass Carlopio

Sleep Expert, Psychologist & Meditation

Bias, especially confirmation bias keeps me locked into beliefs that are no longer true or useful.  I cannot hear or ponder new ideas or consider social change when the blinders of my past thinking obscure any vision for a better present or future.



Bias

I have always been unable to truly accept a compliment when it was given.  I realized that it was bc I was lacking a really strong sense of self and positive attributes I have working for me.  Now, I make myself smile and say thank you and then I make myself believe it.  The world we live in today is not the friendliest, so if someone is giving you a compliment, believe them. You are a wondrous creation. 

Learning to take compliments

I enjoyed learning more about this. I think that I will be more aware of my own biases in regards to this and will try to use these biases in a constructive and mindful way. 

Confirmation bias

I have gone my whole life believing what I already “know” to be true, rather than seeing the evidence that is right in front of me. The negative self talk, even subconsciously, is stronger than any words of positive affirmation, praise, or compliments. The lies I choose to believe are old. Very old. I know it intellectually, but I am having a hard time letting my heart feel that.

Guilty

Yes I do all of these things a lot of the time. I need to learn to think about how I can change the way I react to compliments and a whole range of different things 

Confirmation  bias

I do this but I think my son does it and it holds him back. I guess we all do it. Good to be aware of it

We all do this sub consciously and the key take away from this lesson is being able to recognise this and change our thinking, too often I realise this to late and the major thing I need is to be able to identify this earlier and interrupt that thought process 

We so often subconsciously look to confirm our beliefs about ourselves and the world, thereby strengthening beliefs that might be inhibiting us, and not seeing the world or others around us.