Russ Harris

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Buddhism, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Education

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🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Russ Harris Russ Harris is a medical practitioner, psychotherapist, and leading expert in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). His books include ACT with Love, ACT Made Simple, The Confidence Gap, and The Happiness Trap, which has now been translated into twenty-two languages. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and travels internationally to train mental health professionals in the ACT approach. In This Interview, Russ Harris and I Discuss... The Wolf Parable Getting the wolves to cooperate and not battle Embracing even our most difficult feelings The Reality Slap and the Reality Gap An overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) The Serenity Challenge How we always have a chance to improve our situation Taking the action that is needed regardless of what we feel What "psychological flexibility" is Cognitive defusion techniques Recognizing that are thoughts are not facts Asking the question "Is this thought useful"? Noticing and Naming our thoughts and feelings "The Greatest Hits" approach The "I'm not good enough" story" "I'm having the thought that" de-fusion method The artificial distinction between thoughts and emotions The Struggle Switch Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can do positive thinking courses and learn to think more positively,
0:03.8	but it's not going to stop negative thoughts from showing up.
0:07.1	Like if you learn to speak Spanish, you're not going to forget English.
0:19.0	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:20.8	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:25.6	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:30.0	ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:35.4	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:40.1	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:43.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:46.4	But it's not just about thinking.
0:48.4	Our actions matter.
0:50.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:54.8	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:59.2	How they feed their good wolf.
1:14.0	Hey everybody, are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:18.2	I'm Roy Scovall.
1:19.1	And I'm Daniel Van Kirk.
1:20.0	And it's the Pen Pals podcast.
1:21.6	Maybe you've had a pen pal before.
1:23.1	Well, you have two of them right now.
1:24.9	You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.
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