The dangers of black & white thinking

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I talk about how to move beyond black and white thinking and expand your mind. This is a replay of a Neurolive webinar I did on my app. For the full webinar AD-free, please see Neurocycle.app.

Have you ever caught yourself thinking that there is only a right or wrong way think, with no in-between? This is called black and white thinking, and even though it’s pretty common, it can make us feel frustrated and stuck. Life exists on a spectrum, which means that sometimes we have to embrace the grey areas in between all that black and white! Our sponsors helping make this episode possible: -Betterhelp: Get it off your chest, with BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/drleaf today to get 10% off your first month.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mist.
0:09.0	Have you ever caught yourself thinking that there's only a right or a wrong way to think or to do something and know in between?
0:17.0	This is called black and white thinking and even though it's pretty common and it's a pattern people can fall into, it's just not realistic and it creates problems for us because as we know life is complex and exists on a spectrum.
0:30.5	We know this instinctively, so why do we do this? So in today's
0:34.2	podcast I'm going to talk about why we fall into these patterns of black and white
0:38.6	thinking and give you some tips if you catch yourself doing this and how to
0:42.0	shift out of it.
0:43.0	Just a quick note before you begin.
0:45.0	If you're hearing this, you're currently not on the Neurocycle app.
0:48.0	If you subscribe to the Neurocycle app, you can listen to lots of different full episodes on amazing things to help you
0:53.8	with your mental health in the NeuroLife section and you can listen and watch Ad Free on the Neurocycle
1:00.3	App. The link in details will be in the show notes.
1:06.0	Had you ever found yourself getting stuck in black and white thinking.
1:10.0	All or nothing thinking that there's only this way there's only one way is either
1:15.9	this or that. Well it is the most destructive way that we can think because it's not
1:21.4	actually the truth it's not black and white thinking, it's actually gray.
1:26.0	Gray thinking and what do I mean by that? Well life exists on the spectrum.
1:31.0	Nothing's as simple and as clear as black and white thinking.
1:34.4	And when we have this black and white thinking, which I'm going to define in a moment,
1:37.8	more detail, give you some tips and so on.
1:39.8	But when we do that, we actually affect our mind-brain body connection.
1:44.5	We increase our vulnerability to illness.
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