It's ok not to be ok!

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I talk about the 100% happiness fallacy, and why learning how how to embrace your pain and rewrite your story is an important part of being truly happy. This is a replay of a Neurolive webinar I did on my app. For the full webinar AD-free, please see Neurocycle.app or look for Neurocycle on the App Store or Google Play.

Does it feel to you like you must be happy all the time? Often, it feels like happiness and being positive is touted as the wonder drug to solve our problems. It is easy to feel like there is something wrong with you if you are not as happy as other people seem to be! Yes, being happy and optimistic ways can have a positive impact on our mind, brain and body, but thinking happy thoughts doesn't just eliminate whatever we are going through.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mess.
0:10.0	Does it feel to you like there's an opposition with being happy all the time, from research to
0:14.4	podcast to endless articles, happiness and being positive is touted as the Wanda Drug to solve
0:19.8	our problems.
0:21.2	Sometimes I feel like I'm being sucked into a happiness swamp and with
0:25.1	this immersion in this happiness swamp zeitgeist we can certainly be excused if
0:30.0	the thought of whether there is something wrong with us if you aren't happy and positive all the time pops up a little too often for
0:36.6	comfort. However, you know and I know in our guts that those positive thoughts are band-aids and the relentless pursuit of the ultimate
0:45.0	affirmation will not be enough to heal you, fix you, or get you what you want.
0:50.2	Thinking in healthy ways does most certainly have a positive impact on your mind, brain and body,
0:55.0	but it's not as simple as swapping a thought from a negative to a happy thought or saying a bunch of positive affirmations over and over to make you happy.
1:03.7	Thinking happy thoughts does, it doesn't eliminate whatever you're going through.
1:08.4	There is benefit to be game from happiness and a positive attitude for sure, research shows this, but to have true lasting
1:15.9	impact we need to deal with life in a balanced way to embracing, processing and
1:20.3	reconceptionizing.
1:21.6	So there's absolutely nothing wrong with you if you don't feel 100%
1:26.0	happy all the time. In fact, you'll be happier if you stop trying to be happier, which is
1:31.0	what I'm going to talk about in today's podcast, so let's dive in.
1:34.9	But just a quick note, if you're hearing this, you're currently not on the Neurocycle
1:38.7	app and will only be hearing the first half of this conversation.
1:42.2	In order to hear the full episode, you will need to
1:44.5	subscribe to the Neurocycle app where you can listen to the full episode in the NeuroLife
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