S11 EP1 Opposite Action: Resistance Training for Your Brain
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today we are talking about a therapeutic technique called opposite action. It’s like one of those choose your own adventure gamebooks but the choice you make is opposite from the kind of choice you would normally make. And you face the choice when an emotion causes you to struggle. Have you heard the saying?: All feelings are valid, All behaviors are not. How do you behave when emotions are high? Does it serve you? If not, let’s change that.
Today we we have a workout for you. Let’s call it a kind of resistance training, for your brain. Here’s the idea…Basically, whatever your knee jerk reaction to an emotion is - you try to do the opposite. No, this isn’t an exercise in denying emotions. We are talking about changing behaviors. Listen and learn how to put this into practice and strengthen the area of your brain responsible for resilience and perseverance.
Research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381101/
(00:00:00) Welcome and personal feelings about life changes.
(00:07:32) What is the therapeutic technique called opposite action
(00:12:25) Doing what you’ve always done and when it is time to adjust
(00:18:55) How opposite action is used in DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy
(00:20:00) This is NOT an emotion suppressing technique
(00:27:07) How to strengthen the anterior midcingulate cortex aMCC in your brain
(00:33:50) Why Kelsea is passionate about DBT as a form of action based therapy
(00:39:00) Putting opposite action into practice: the steps
(00:48:46) The importance of being flexible and explaining what you are doing to your people (00:53:00) Fear of failure and small steps to making a plan of action
(00:58:10) Sadness and its opposite action
(01:04:30) The theme of the episode
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| 0:00.0 | The reality is the only way that you're going to actually change any of those, not only |
| 0:05.0 | of those behaviors, the relationships and how you feel about them is by looking into yourself. |
| 0:10.9 | It's not by looking out to other people. |
| 0:13.4 | There are ways that you can adjust, but it can only happen with yourself and how you are going |
| 0:19.8 | to react to something differently. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick Dyes, Save Lives podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, you guys. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Rachel. |
| 0:33.1 | You're back. |
| 0:33.9 | You're back. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:37.2 | Oh, man're back. Welcome back. Oh, man. That was quite the welcome back. Oh, man. That was all that I had. |
| 0:47.6 | That was all, I put it all into the first sentence. You peaked right there. Right there. |
| 0:51.2 | We're 30 seconds in and you peaked. I'm going on the decline from now on being 39. |
| 0:59.2 | It's fun. |
| 1:01.6 | What's all going on over there? |
| 1:04.9 | Look at your setup. |
| 1:07.3 | Oh, it's a work in progress over here, you know. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm so proud of you. |
| 1:13.1 | Moving's fun. |
| 1:14.4 | Setting up is fun. |
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