presents different challenges for everybody.
So to help us comprehend this daily battle we all have
is clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. Judy Ho.
For being something that's really universal--
everybody's got [bleep] that they need to deal with--
why is it so difficult to do?
Because when you're going through a period of [bleep]
it's all-encompassing.
It just feels like it colors your entire day,
your whole life, like nothing's ever gonna change.
The first step is always just to take some deep breaths.
You would think that that seems way too simple,
but it always works.
What you're telling your parasympathetic nervous system
is that things are cool.
Got it.
So even if your mind is stressed
you're telling your body you're not.
You're sending all these signals and everything...
And it sends a feedback loop up to your brain saying,
"Hey, you're not in danger."
It's so cool.
So after you do that,
it's really important to just, like, refocus on the present.
You know, go through your five senses and by the end of that,
you've also distracted yourself...
Yeah.
...from really engaging
in the worry thoughts.
What are some of the common obstacles that you see
that people can counter?
Well, I think one really
common one is like a very difficult time
tolerating negative emotional states.
Like, we all want to feel happy.
The minute that we feel sad it's like, oh, no, oh, no,
we have to struggle with this.
I think we all have to really visualize all emotions,
positive or negative, more like waves in the ocean, like,
they come and they go and you can't really hold onto it.
If you have a way of actually taking sadness and, like,
visualizing it as a physical object outside yourself...
Yeah.
...whether it looks like
a person, a monster, a book-- any physical object,
even the Grand Canyon, has a beginning and an end.
Well, Judy, Dr. Ho, very, very valuable stuff
that everybody takes to heart.
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