From Isolation to Inspiration with Paul Boross and Bernardo Moya Episode #004: Brian Colbert
Nov 23, 2020
In this engaging discussion, Brian Colbert, a licensed master trainer of NLP and bestselling author, shares insights on happiness and resilience. He argues that happiness can be cultivated through practices like endorsement and engagement. Brian emphasizes the importance of controlling internal responses during uncertainty and highlights how environment influences mood. He introduces practical exercises for emotional regulation and contrasts introvert vs. extrovert reactions to lockdown. Humor emerges as a powerful tool for coping with adversity and fostering creativity.
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Happiness Is A Trainable Skill
- Happiness is a skill you practice by controlling your internal state and actions.
- Feeling progress and direction gives you the strongest boost in happiness.
Environment Hijacks Emotions
- The environment strongly cues our feelings via social contagion and can hijack our brain.
- But you can choose responses to those cues rather than simply reacting to them.
Use Breath To Regain Calm
- When anxiety hijacks you, do deep breaths: inhale, hold, and exhale slowly seven to eight times.
- This shifts oxygen to the frontal lobes and moves you out of fight/flight/freeze into calm thinking.
