Hi, it's Dr. Jenna Glover here. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday.

Thanks so much for having me as your guest host during Pride Week. I really enjoyed

sharing my work on dialectical thinking with you. I know it can be a bit heady at times,

but it's so important, and I think it can really help LGBTQ plus communities live their best

lives. Today I'm going to talk about how to balance different states of mind or mind states.

For example, there is a rational mind, an emotional mind, and it's important to help them coexist.

Maybe you'll find yourself in a terrible mood before giving an important presentation,

so finding balance before that is important because you need to perform.

In short, understanding mind states is another way to help us navigate our complicated lives.

Every day we are faced with different decisions that we have to make, and we are also receiving

a myriad of information. And all of that is happening while we are in one of three different

mind states. At any given time, we might find ourselves in what is known as rational or reasonable

mind. And this mindset is really focused on logic. It's about problem solving and looking at the facts,

and it doesn't really take into consideration your feelings for how other people feel.

The second mind state is known as emotion mind. Oftentimes it's impulsive, and it disregards

facts and logic. Finally, the middle where these two converge is known as wise mind.

This is where we were able to see the facts of a situation while simultaneously also understanding

our emotional responses to that same situation. Wise mind is the place where we experience the

concept of intuition. It's the place where we are able to access our wisdom and all the things

that we have learned in life and know. Within the LGBTQ plus community, being able to access

wise mind is incredibly important. One of the things we've talked about in previous episodes is

how we have to encounter a lot more stressful situations in any given day unexpectedly,

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