We Aren’t Our Thoughts! Simple Steps to Achieving Inner Peace, Letting Go of Negative Thoughts & Becoming Happier, Healthier & Calmer

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

For Mental Health Awareness Month, we are releasing a special episode! New York Times bestselling author of “Don't Believe Everything You Think” Joseph Nguyen joins us to break down how to find your inner peace. He gives tips on how to stop overthinking, achieve better mental clarity and elaborates on his teachings on how to surrender and start letting go. He will show you how to have more effective meditation practices, why your current meditation practice might not be working, and how he adapted his practice from the meditation teachings of other experts. Plus! He reveals how he hit his rock bottom, the life transformation he made to stop suffering, and how he paid off his family’s debt. This episode will provide you with tools to cope with anxiety, recover from burnout, and manage workplace stress. From our Breakdown to the one we hope you never have, we wish you a well and healthy Mental Health Awareness Month!

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0:00.0	This sort of taps into what I think a lot of people are coming to, meaning I want to change.
0:06.7	I keep doing therapy. I keep working out. I keep dieting. I keep taking drugs. I keep cutting people
0:13.5	out of my life. I keep adding people to my life. And fundamentally, nothing's changing.
0:19.7	We always want to be growing. But at the same time, paradoxically, we don't want to change.
0:24.6	I tried changing everything as well. I tried meditation, I tried all sorts of therapy,
0:28.6	CBT, I tried acupuncture, acupressure, everything that I did, it worked to a certain extent,
0:34.6	but then it didn't give me the actual changes that I was looking for.
0:38.8	In life, we're always going to be exposed to a lot of different challenges, traumas, and difficulties.
0:45.0	That is never ending.
0:46.5	And so if we try to change our external circumstances without changing our own internal being,
0:52.2	our own frameworks with how we view the world, our own thinking. Nothing
0:56.1	will change. Everything outside will change, but we'll still feel like we're not doing enough.
1:00.6	We aren't enough, that we're not lovable, that we still have to do more in order to earn
1:04.6	enough approval, love, respect. I try changing everything outside of me, but I was still
1:10.0	ridden with anxiety and psychological
1:12.3	suffering every single day. And it wasn't until I changed my own thinking that everything
1:17.9	around me started to change. And it wasn't even the external things. It's just me that changed.
1:25.7	Hi, I'm I. I'm Bialik.
1:31.1	I'm Jonathan Cohen.
1:32.3	And welcome to our breakdown.
1:34.6	May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
1:37.3	And that feels right on brand for us to talk about the importance of talking about mental health issues, reducing stigma surrounding them.
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