Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

So you probably had some kind of negative thoughts or feelings today.

I want you to get back in touch with those right now as you're listening to this podcast.

Get yourself in the place of feeling maybe not very good about yourself,

negative dense thoughts or feelings,

put yourself in that space and just feel what that feels like

for a moment.

Get yourself back there and sit with that for a minute.

Feel how awful that feels.

Now I don't want you to stay here all episode.

I just want you to get there for a moment just to kick this off with a thought exercise

or an experience exercise because today we're starting

into the fourth tool from a series we've been talking about from the book, The Tools,

by Phil Stutz and Barry Michaels. Fantastic's. Fantastic book.

Get yourself a copy.

If you don't have one already, I think it's life-changing material.

And we've been talking about one of their five tools in each episode in this series.

This is number four.

Today, to talk about how to take those negative thoughts

and feelings that dark cloud you might feel overwhelming maybe even leads

down to self-hatred at one end of it if it's extreme enough. How do you take that and how do you

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