The "So What" Exercise

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever find yourself caught in a loop of anxiety and fear, thinking about something you did wrong, or something that could potentially go wrong? In this episode, I'll share a simple cognitive exercise you can use to settle yourself down and feel more empowered.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:08.0	I'm your host Corey Muscara and in today's episode I'm going to share with you the what if exercise.
0:16.0	More to come on that in a moment.
0:18.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so the what if exercise.
0:45.0	This is a bit of a cognitive exercise that we can use when we find ourselves caught up in fear and anxiety, specifically around an
0:57.2	anticipated negative outcome.
0:59.8	I talked about this in the past on the podcast, but a lot of times when something goes wrong
1:06.2	or we perceive something that could happen negatively, our mind goes to the worst case scenario.
1:13.4	And a lot of times we're not even actively reflecting on the details
1:18.1	of that outcome, that scenario, or the realistic nature of that scenario.
1:23.7	We're just so caught up in the emotional charge.
1:27.0	And it seems to be running subconsciously.
1:30.5	And so we've talked about a lot of different tools to work with that.
1:34.0	But one way that I have found useful is just to meet it head on
1:40.0	with a bit of a, I don't want to say, aggressive attitude,
1:44.0	but just a very clear discerning attitude,
1:47.7	which is just like, okay, yeah, if that happens,
1:50.6	so what?
1:52.0	And then the mind goes, wait, what do you mean? So what?
1:54.0	It's like, yeah, no, that terrible thing that's going to happen, so what?
1:58.0	And what's great about this exercise, and I'll walk you through it more specifically in a moment is two things.
2:05.8	The first of which is that we get to see that usually the narrative and the story in our
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