Dr. Amishi Jha on How to Train a Peak Mind, Find Your Focus & Own Your Attention
The Cathy Heller Podcast with Cathy Heller
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Depressogenic Thought - The Solution to Depression
Most people don't think of depression as an attentional challenge, but i'll tell you it is. It's that our attention is really just selectively directed, and we can't see ourselves out. We're doing with rumination the same way: looping in ruminative loops. So this second system of attention could be cultivated through mindfulness practice to hold us in a more spacious orientation. And when we take that kind of a broader container view of our experience, we feel more capable of handling everything that’s happening to us. The real fake news is mostly your thoughts," he says.
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