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
2. Doesn’t have to be the complete opposite, can just be a better choice
3. Make a big deal of it
4. Creates new habits, new neural pathways

5. “I could do this, but I can choose a healthy opposite action”

6. Tell somebody.. Say it out loud - Identify these negative cognitions out loud

7. Does this sound true or irrational?

8. Community is important - say it out loud, and allow someone to reflect and react

9. Name it to tame it - notice/acknowledge the feeling or emotion attached to the craving

10. Don’t attach to them, but spend time with and name these emotions

11. Radical Accountability - wacky, silly, or extreme ways to get ourselves through the cravings

12. *Urge surfing - sitting in our disregulations and negative emotions until they pass
13. This is a challenging practice that requires mental muscles
14. 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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