I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman.

So today we're going to help you kill the answer, the automatic negative thoughts that steal your

happiness and ruin your mind.

This is one of my favorite activities and exercises because it's so simple and so powerful.

And they should have taught you this in second grade.

You know, I think about when I, you know, I love Paul Simon's song,

Koda Chrome, it starts off with when I think back

and all the crap I learned in high school.

It's a wonder I can think at all.

And the first thing is teach you how to manage your mind.

Absolutely. So I came up with the term ants after seeing eight people one day.

I had couples who hated each other,

suicidal teenagers,

people who were, you know, in domestic violence situations, I went home completely worn out and had an

ant infestation in my house and as I was cleaning up the thousands of ants you know

when you go through medical school you're always thinking of pneumonics, you know, when you go through medical school, you're always thinking of pneumonics

or, you know, ways to remember things, and so you take the first letter of each term and put them

together, and as I'm cleaning up the ants I'm thinking to myself automatic negative thoughts.

As I had this infestation at home, my patients that day were infested.

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