The Key to Life is Distance

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Once we get some distance from things, we can see them clearly for once.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim and I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:06.7	rebirth. I share my feelings and revelations. I believe in casual or
0:11.0	clinical and with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on
0:15.9	purpose because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. So I think one of the keys
0:21.3	to life is distance so distance in your thoughts
0:26.2	distance in things and distance in your relationships now let me tell you or let me explain. What I mean by distance is one of the things
0:36.9	that we allows us to fall into the trenches that, well I guess I should say me, and fall into my mental emotional quicksand is being too close, right?
0:48.8	So when we're attached to our thoughts and these thoughts produce a feeling. These feelings are
0:55.4	usually negative, lower frequency and then they pull us in and suddenly we're
1:00.8	spinning, right? So creating distance and a lot of people use
1:04.8	meditation, I use the motorcycle, fitness, whatever it takes for you to step away
1:12.2	and see your thoughts as if you're looking through a snow globe instead of living
1:18.5	your thoughts.
1:20.3	Most of the thoughts that we have are negative.
1:23.4	It's like swimming up river to force yourself
1:27.1	and rewire yourself to start to think positive thoughts
1:30.5	instead of these negative thoughts.
1:32.8	And then most of the thoughts that we have are the same as we had yesterday,
1:36.7	so not only are they negative, but they are also yesterday's thoughts,
1:42.4	so now you're living in a loop. So to create distance between
1:46.9	you and your thoughts. The other thing is we live with cognitive distortions
1:52.3	and these distortions are based on our you know everything
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