Podcast 482: Can we be too self-aware?

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about self-awareness, why it is helpful, and what happens when we become too self-aware. As you have heard me say many times on this podcast, we need to self-regulate what we think, say and do. This is key to living a life of mind management and learning how to deal with the many ups and downs of life. However, it is possible to be too self-aware. This happens when we start trying to intellectualize away our feelings and emotions rather than learning from them. We have to feel so we can heal—trying to rationalize away how we experience life can be as harmful as suppressing or ignoring uncomfortable emotions.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

1:38 What self-awareness is

2:30 What happens when we become too self-aware

8:05 Why intellectualizing away our emotions is not helpful

9:00, 19:32 How to balance your emotions & self-awareness using mind management

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leven, welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:09.0	Well, today we're going to talk about self-awareness and specifically, can we become too self-aware
0:17.0	that we kind of fall into a pattern of intellectualizing?
0:24.5	Looking for a scientifically-tested and strategic way to improve your mental health?
0:29.5	Then it's time for you to download my new app, Neurocycle, the world's first and only Mind Brain detox app.
0:37.0	Neurocycle is a step-by-step program you do over 63 days to identify an unbiotoxic thinking habits, trauma and limiting beliefs.
0:46.0	The app doesn't just help you remove the bad stuff, but also helps rebuild healthy new neural networks into your brain.
0:53.0	Neurocycle also includes many guides for in-the-moment situations like a guide to help you work through panic attacks and a guide for parents to use with kids.
1:02.0	Struggling with sleep, Neurocycle has a guide to help you fall asleep quicker and stay asleep longer.
1:08.0	I spent over 30 plus years developing and testing this Neurocycle system and used it with my patients who struggled with anxiety, depression, brain injury, recovery and so many other things.
1:19.0	It's used by over 500,000 people worldwide, including world-class athletes, pastors and celebrities.
1:25.0	To get started today, just look for Neurocycle in the App Store or Google Play or visit Neurocycle.app.
1:32.0	The link in details will also be in the show notes.
1:35.0	So everyone's talking about awareness and I talk about it a lot as well and it's the first step in my Neurocycle gathering awareness.
1:43.0	But notice that I'm actually emphasizing the word gathering awareness.
1:48.0	So I'm not just saying be aware, I am saying gather awareness.
1:53.0	So it's a deliberate, intentional, conscious act of gathering like you pick apples and you choose this and you go into an apple orchard and you're picking apples in an apple orchard.
2:05.0	You don't just go up to the first tree and shake it and all the apples fall on your head and knock you out and you pick up rotten ones or whatever.
2:12.0	You go and choose a tree and you reach up and you look at that apple and you look at that, you gather and put them into your basket.
2:18.0	That's a great way of thinking about awareness.
2:21.0	It's a process, you do awareness well that's going to help you and not get you stuck in over-intedictualizing, over-thinking, getting sort of so stuck in the world.
2:34.0	In the process that you actually end up ruminating and feeling worse, the healing is generally you can't feel as before you get better.
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