145. Mental Flexibility
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Join me this week as I show you what mental flexibility is and why this skill is crucial in thought work. I’m outlining the irony that exists in resisting being challenged or in trying on a new contradictory thought, and why accepting, allowing, and holding space for two conflicting beliefs is what will help you move into alignment with the thing you want to become or have.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.6 | Hello my chickens, how are you? I am loving my life right now and that's not because |
| 0:37.1 | it's externally perfect. We're still in the middle of a pandemic and I think that I'm out of |
| 0:41.9 | clean underwear and I'm going through my own mental and emotional challenges and coaching myself and I'm getting coaching all of that is happening. |
| 0:51.0 | But my options are to resent reality or to love it. And if I decide to love life, even in a pandemic, that doesn't mean the pandemic's getting away with something, right? |
| 1:04.0 | Me deciding to love life even in a pandemic doesn't make the pandemic more or less likely to infect people. |
| 1:11.0 | It hating life in a pandemic is not going to teach it a lesson or change how the virus works. |
| 1:18.4 | Loving life in a pandemic doesn't mean I suddenly lose my ability to grasp how science works or stop caring if other people live or die. |
| 1:28.4 | All it means is that I get to enjoy the present moment of my life, which is the only moment that I'm guaranteed to have. |
| 1:36.8 | If I knew that I was going to die next week, would I want to spend this week hating my life? |
| 1:43.0 | The answer to that is no, of course. |
| 1:46.0 | Before COVID, I probably would have said, |
| 1:48.0 | well, I love my life because I get to travel |
| 1:51.0 | and I teach all over the world and I love doing that. And now in COVID I think I love my life because I get to stay home and be cozy and not go anywhere. And those seem like direct opposites, but both were and are true at the time |
| 2:07.5 | that I was and am thinking them. And this is what I call mental flexibility and that's what I want to teach you about today. |
| 2:15.6 | Because I've talked before about emotional resilience, the skill you can develop through |
| 2:22.1 | thought work of being less reactive to the world around you or your own brain. |
| 2:28.6 | Emotional resilience helps you learn to live on a more even keel, where you still experience the full range of human life, |
| 2:36.6 | but you don't have such big swings in crashes and you don't feel out of control and at the mercy of your feelings. |
| 2:43.6 | Most of us are too changeable in our emotions and we have to learn how to bring it all down to smaller |
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