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CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast I talk about the importance of step 5 in my Neurocycle process: the active reach. This is a replay of a Neurolive webinar I did on my app. For the full AD-FREE episode please see neurocycle.app.
In case you haven’t listened to any of my other podcasts or read any of my books or research, the Neurocycle is a way to harness our thinking power that I have developed and researched over the past three decades (I discuss this in detail in my book Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess and my app Neurocycle). It has 5 steps. The first step is to 1. gather awareness of how we feel mentally and physically and our perspective when we are dealing with a past wound. The second step is to 2. reflect on how we feel. Then we 3. write down our reflections to help organize our thinking. The fourth step is to 4. recheck: think about what our thoughts and feelings are trying to tell us. What does it say about what happened to us? What is our “antidote”— how will we work through how our thoughts are affecting us? Lastly, do the 5. active reach. This is a thought or action we need to practice daily to help us reconceptualize what we thought about in the previous step. What we are going to do each day to give ourselves the time and mental space needed to deal with what is bothering us and turn our destructive thoughts into a constructive future?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm your host Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mess. |
| 0:10.3 | Before I begin today's podcast, I just want to share with you the cutest thing that happened yesterday. |
| 0:15.7 | My daughter sent me a little video of our granddaughter who's now five months old and she was |
| 0:21.0 | giggling at one of their dogs that was wearing one of these cones because she'd hurt herself and she was healing. |
| 0:26.5 | And every time this dog walked past her, she just giggled in the most cutest way. |
| 0:31.0 | And I found myself watching this video over and over and then I noticed |
| 0:35.9 | that I had this huge grin on my face my whole body had relaxed my whole perspective |
| 0:41.7 | had shifted and I was just like in such a great |
| 0:44.9 | mood and it just made me realize how that little incident had anchored me I'd |
| 0:49.9 | been so busy yesterday and that little incident had anchored me and just brought me back to a sense of peace and common reality. |
| 0:57.6 | And today I'm going to talk about how we can anchor ourselves by using an active reach which is the fifth part of my |
| 1:05.9 | neurocycle and it really helps to just anchor us when we think of cute little things |
| 1:11.0 | like my daughter's giggling is an example of |
| 1:14.1 | visualizing something simple, calming, sweet and effective as a way of actually |
| 1:20.3 | helping to anchor us back in reality and help us through the day. |
| 1:24.8 | So I'm going to be sharing as I mentioned from one of my most recent neural lives which I do |
| 1:30.1 | inside my neurocycle app. |
| 1:32.1 | It's a webinar feature that we have inside the app so if you |
| 1:34.9 | download the app you'll be able to access a full webinar and I have a whole lot of other |
| 1:39.6 | webinars as well of different topics to help you with your mental health. |
| 1:45.0 | But in today's particular topic I'm going to talk about the active reach which is the |
| 1:49.4 | fit step of my neuropsycho process and it is a statement or a visualization or a |
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