1902: Let's Get Meta: A Strategy for Dealing with Painful Emotions by Dominique Alessi on Mindfulness
Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement
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🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1902. Let's get meta, a strategy for dealing with painful |
| 0:06.3 | emotions by Dominique Olessi of Dominique Olessi.com. And I'm just a malloc, the guy that reads you |
| 0:12.1 | articles or sometimes book excerpts every day, including holidays for over five years, |
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| 0:36.1 | Let's get meta, a strategy for dealing with painful emotions by Dominique Olessi of Dominique Olessi.com. |
| 0:44.9 | I love when things get meta. We can think and we can think about how we think. We can talk, |
| 0:52.4 | and we can talk about how we talk. We can draw, and we can draw ourselves drawing. |
| 0:58.5 | Indeed, being able to get meta is a cool part, I think, of being human. The ability to step out of |
| 1:03.9 | a system we exist in to observe ourselves and our actions from an outsider's view often leads to |
| 1:09.4 | profound insights and certainly engages us in some entertaining mental gymnastics. While it may |
| 1:14.9 | seem these types of explorations are reserved for late-night philosophical conversations amongst |
| 1:19.6 | young adults getting high for the first time, they also have some practical applications. In particular, |
| 1:25.1 | this type of thinking can be an effective way to deal with painful emotions. Emotions too get meta. |
| 1:32.4 | There's how we feel, such as angry or sad, and then there's how we feel about how we feel, |
| 1:38.0 | such as ashamed that we're angry. There's also how we feel about how we feel about how we feel |
| 1:43.3 | and so on, but meaning gets lost after a few iterations and I find it most productive to focus on |
| 1:48.4 | the first two. Distinguishing between emotions and meta emotions can be a really helpful practice, |
| 1:54.8 | but most of us don't really think about our emotions in this way, at least not explicitly. |
| 2:00.0 | When dealing with painful emotions in particular, we tend to take two approaches. |
| 2:05.3 | Number one, suppressing, numbing, or changing emotions. Painful emotions are, well, painful, |
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