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How To Escape Your Brain's Default Mode Network | Zindel Segal and Norman Farb

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Expanding Self-Knowledge and Emotional Processing

Weakening the dominance of the conceptual evaluative self involves expanding self-knowledge to include dynamic sensory impressions of the body along with conceptual knowledge. Studies on inducing sadness revealed that the magnitude of sadness and likelihood of relapse into depression were not predicted by conceptualizing and judging emotions. The biggest predictor of depression was found to be the extent to which individuals shut down their sensory impressions while experiencing negative emotions. Ignoring the reason for rumination, which can be destructive, is more damaging than having the thoughts themselves.

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