Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you. We're going to be

talking about probably one of the most important things we can talk about how to work with our

minds. It's one of the most important techniques and tools that I work with my patients on,

sometimes very directly, sometimes indirectly, but it's always a different thread that's, you know,

or a consistent thread, I should say, with different issues that's always kind of woven in there.

And it's fascinating how, you know, we are really good at working with our bodies, so aware of

our physical self. We can work on our posture. We work on our movements, people exercise and go to the

gym. But as I say, all the time on the show and I try to advocate for, and maybe I'm preaching to

the choir because you all are listening to the show, but we need to work more on our emotional

mental health, which means learning how to work better with our emotions and our minds.

And a lot of us don't understand that

our mind is something we do of control over and we can work with it. Many individuals feel

that we can control our behavior, although some people struggle with that impulse control and

boundaries and whatnot. And we sometimes just are what we call mood dependent, whatever or thinking

dependent even. Whatever we're feeling, whatever we're thinking, we take it to be true and we let it guide us and direct us,

gets us in a lot of trouble because as we're going to talk about, a lot of times your thinking

is very extreme, biased, self-centering, and just not true.

And the same thing with your emotions.

Both of them are important and we want them to be

guides, but we have to work with them. We don't just buy in immediately just because you feel

something doesn't mean it's appropriate or honest or true. Just because we think something or make

meaning out of something in a certain way, that doesn't mean that that is correct or true

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