60: Augmenting Positive Emotions

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tune in this week as I explain why people get into the habit of augmenting positive emotions with external rewards rather than simply enjoying them, and what you’re teaching your brain when you do, as well as the potential downsides. Discover how to tell whether you really need to augment a positive emotion, analyze your situation, and decide on the best course of action in line with your goals. I promise you, guys, by doing this work, you will be able to experience so much more joy, wonder, contentment, gratitude, and love than you can imagine!

Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.rachelhart.com/60

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 60.
0:06.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:13.0	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:19.0	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:27.0	Now here is your host, Rachel Hart.
0:35.0	Hey everybody, I'm going to start off today with a story that I have from one of my clients.
0:41.0	So I've been working with this woman for a while.
0:44.0	And one of the things that we've been talking about is really understanding how the Think Feel Act cycle applies to how she shows up at work.
0:55.0	You know, because the Think Feel Act cycle applies to everything, not just drinking, everything, everywhere in our lives, all of our relationships, there it is.
1:03.0	So she had been preparing for this presentation.
1:07.0	And it was a presentation that she had anxiety about.
1:11.0	Right, she had some stress about it, but she had been doing a lot of work to prepare and to go in with a different mindset and to show up differently.
1:19.0	By using the Think Feel Act cycle, by paying attention to what she was thinking and feeling and working to shift that on purpose.
1:31.0	So she gave this presentation and it went really well.
1:36.0	The presentation went really well.
1:38.0	She was really happy and she was telling me about this. She was telling me about this victory that she had at work for something that she had worried about for a while.
1:47.0	And one of the things that she related was that when she was driving home from work that day, she watched and instead of her brain, automatically searching for a reward which so many of us are in the habit of doing.
2:02.0	Right, something good happens and we're immediately like, how can I celebrate?
2:08.0	I'm going to have a drink. I'm going to eat something or we're going to go out to a restaurant.
2:12.0	Right, we're so often in that place of something positive happening and then looking, waiting, anticipating that coming reward.
2:23.0	But instead, she just allowed herself to be present with what she was feeling.
2:30.0	She allowed herself to really go into and really feel and savor those positive emotions to really understand.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rachel Hart, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Rachel Hart and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.