The Lens Method: A New Way to Reframe Your Inner World | EP 612
May 16, 2025
Discover the transformative power of reframing adversity and emotional overwhelm. Learn about the LENS Method, a neuroscience-based approach for redefining your inner narrative. Hear insights on emotional flexibility and resilience, highlighting the importance of personal storytelling. Explore how shifting your perspective can lead to genuine mental health improvements and a deeper connection with your core values. This conversation is packed with practical strategies to move from survival mode to self-mastery and embrace a growth mindset.
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John's Emotional Numbness Story
John R. Miles felt emotionally numb despite performing well as a senior executive at Dell.
He was present physically but disconnected internally, a powerful example of silent inner struggle.
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Science of Reframing
Reframing stress reduces amygdala activity, calming fear responses in the brain.
Neuroplasticity means we can retrain our brains to embrace growth and optimism.
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Label Your Story First
Start reframing by labeling the story you tell yourself during stress to gain awareness.
Naming your internal narrative creates space for change and conscious choice.
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Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering
Joseph Nguyen
This book by Joseph Nguyen explores the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and offers a new paradigm for understanding the human experience. It provides tools and insights to help readers become unaffected by negative thoughts and feelings, experience unconditional love and joy, and break free from self-destructive habits. The book emphasizes that suffering is optional and that an expansion of consciousness is necessary to solve problems that cannot be addressed with the same level of consciousness that created them. It includes new chapters, journaling prompts, and contemplative exercises in the expanded edition.
In this powerful solo episode, John R. Miles explores a skill that could radically change how you experience adversity, uncertainty, and emotional overwhelm—reframing. But not the kind tied to false positivity or denial. Instead, John unveils the LENS Method, a practical, neuroscience-backed framework for transforming the story you tell yourself—so you can move from survival to self-mastery.
Drawing from research by Dr. Daniel Siegel, Carol Dweck, Martin Seligman, and others, this episode unpacks why reframing isn’t spin—it’s strategy. Through storytelling, psychology, and personal insight, John shows how to use the four LENS steps to reduce emotional reactivity, activate resilience, and reconnect with the values that define your best self.
Reframing is not about denial—it’s about redefining the story.
Cognitive reappraisal can regulate the brain’s threat response.
Neuroplasticity means your brain can be trained to think differently.
Learned optimism and growth mindset are skills, not traits.
The LENS Method (Label, Examine, Name, Step) provides a practical path forward.
When you shift your story, you shift your life.
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