Reframing Your Inner Narrative to Master Your Emotions

Ever felt like your emotions are the puppeteers pulling your strings, dictating every move and thought?
 
Say goodbye to that illusion as I reveal the secrets to owning your feelings, rather than being owned by them.
This episode takes a deep dive into the misconceptions surrounding our emotions and the profound truth that they do not define us.

We dissect the intricate dance between sensations and thoughts, and how our brain's prediction errors can lead us down a spiral of constant anxiety. But don't fret—there's a way out, and it's simpler than you think.

Let's discuss the power of breaking habitual reactions to stress and the importance of distinguishing between being in the grip of an emotion versus merely anticipating its onset.

By weaving mindfulness and hypnosis into our daily routines, we can navigate life's turbulence with newfound ease.

Join us and reshape your relationship with your inner world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When it comes to your mind, you don't need to suffer
as much as you think you do.
Let's talk about that.
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(00:20):
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(01:10):
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Welcome to Mindful HypnosisPodcast.

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My name is Cheryl and I am yourhost.
I was listening to somebody talkthe other day and they made a
mention about having some angerissues, and the comment revolved
around the fact that they'rejust going to have to get used
to it.
It's who I am.
When I start to hear people saythat my anxiety, I am anxious,

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I have no control, I have fear,what you're doing is you're
taking what is an emotion andyou're making it who you are as
a person, and that is not true.
We are not the sum of ouremotions.
We are so much deeper than that.
You got to think about it.
Even if you take the consciousand the subconscious mind, the
conscious mind, 10% is whatwe're seeing.

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You're walking, talking selfthat keeps you safe.
90% of who you are and of whatgoes deeper is below the surface
.
So we're not the sum of ouremotions.
Are we affected by emotions?
Yes, do we react dependent onour emotions?
Yes, but we're not the sum, andso we have to start taking that

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apart.
One of the things that alsohappens, especially when it
comes to anger or fear and oranxiety, is we'll often think
about what it is withoutactually having the sensation of
body.
Our thoughts are not oursensations.
Let me explain.
A sensation is a feeling,feeling a twin somewhere in your

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body, maybe even feeling yourstomach growl.
That's all a sensation.
So it's kind of somethingthat's tangible feeling that
twinge of anxiety or thatbubbling up of rage.
You feel it.
Thinking is thinking about theanxiety, thinking of what it
might feel like or what it couldfeel like, or looking back to

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how you reacted before, on howyou react now, and that is
called a prediction error.
The brain does that to makelife easy.
It's all based on habits.
90% of what you do is based onwhat you did yesterday and the
day before that.
So every time you break thathabit, you'll break whatever
problem you have.
So I'm saying anxiety or fearor anger.

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When we start thinking about ouranxiety, we can actually tell
our brain I'm anxious, let's go.
But instead, if we get in thehabit of not automatically
believing what the brain tellsus, we're in a better state.
If we get in the habit ofignoring what our brain is
telling us, if our brain issaying, oh my God, I'm anxious,

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are you thinking you're anxious?
Are you assuming you're goingto be anxious, or are you going
into your body and actuallysaying, yes, I'm having some of
those anxiety feelings.
There's a disconnect, becausewe're so in our issues that we
often feel that we're in ourissues all the time.

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I work with people, primarily99% of the time, for anxiety.
It's pretty much my go-to, andwhen I ask somebody, you know
where's your anxiety?
It's all the time.
It's everywhere.
It's all the time it feels likethat because we don't sometimes
even know when we're not in it,because when we're not in it,

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we're predicting when we'regoing to be in it again.
And Tessa Pottori and I did apodcast on that.
Start to do a check-in andreally start to see are you
congruent with where you thinkyou may be versus where you are
actually at?
And this is also kind of acognitive dissonance as well,

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because we often think thatwhere we're at is okay and that
since we've been here, we getcomfortable with not being
comfortable, because it's whatwe know and it's what we truly
believe we need to handle.
And it's not true.
There are ways of letting thatshit go.
So the next time your brainhasn't got quite caught up with

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your body or your body isfeeling fine and you're just so
used to saying, yeah, I'manxious, yeah, I'm fearful, yeah
, I'm mad, really check into it,are you really?
Because when you start toreally pay attention to what
your body and your mind issaying, and when they're
actually congruent which meansthey match that's when you can
start to make some changes thatreally matter.

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All right, you take care ofyourself and I'll talk to you
soon.
Take a deep breath in and exhale.
Thank you for listening to theend of this podcast.
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me one-on-one, you can find itthere.
Remember, you have a powerfulmind and it can be changed to
support the life you want tolive.
In the meantime, enjoy your dayone minute at a time.