

Overcome Your Overthinking
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S1 O1 - Are You an Overthinker?
31 października 202331 minGet a foundational overview of what makes a thinker become an overthinker. Heidi introduces you to the most common forms of overthinking and to a new way of working with your thoughts when they interfere with your life. This lesson includes a short, seated exercise.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O2 - Conquer the Illusion of Control
31 października 202332 minHeidi helps you take a long, hard look at what you can and cannot control in your life—while demonstrating that spending time thinking about the things you cannot control leads to unproductive thoughts. This lesson introduces “name it, to tame it”, a short exercise meant to interrupt the habits of the mind.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O3 - Interrupt the Emotional Cascade
31 października 202332 minBy looking at how our physiology and psychology intertwine, Heidi shows you how easy it is to spin into a spiral of unproductive thoughts—and why it can be physically impossible to calm yourself down once you start. This lesson introduces you to the mindfulness practice referred to as vedanā.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O4 - Engage Your Body to Stop Overthinking
31 października 202323 minSee how unlike taking a run or going to the gym, practicing yoga is not a distraction or an avoidance, it’s a way to approach and address part of the emotional cascade. Heidi demonstrates how yoga soothes your system by changing your breath and connects your physical and mental state. This lesson introduces you to basic and accessible yoga poses and practices.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O5 - Simple Yoga to Calm the Mind
31 października 202330 minMove on to some more sophisticated techniques that can help demonstrate the power of yoga as Heidi introduces movements that challenge and work the core muscles that are associated with breathing. She’ll also provide alternative techniques, stretches, poses, and breathing exercises that can be done any at any time.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O6 - Practice Mindfulness for Self-Soothing
31 października 202331 minHeidi builds upon the concept of soothing your system by deliberately changing the pattern of your attention through mindfulness meditation, and introduces different approaches to meditation. She also provides insight into how to practice both concentration and mindfulness. This lesson introduces you to some seated meditation techniques.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O7 - Try the Power of Yin Yoga
31 października 202334 minCombine the soothing elements of compassion practice with the physiological calm created by yoga, in a more passive form of yoga called yin yoga. Heidi demonstrates how this practice involves holding your body in a position for anywhere between three to five minutes, and then you settle, or relax your muscles, with gravity, toward the floor.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O8 - Name and Tame Your Emotions
31 października 202336 minCircle back to the importance of emotions as Heidi reminds you that recognizing our emotions sounds easy enough, but most of us have made a habit of avoiding emotions, out of fear that they’ll be unpleasant. Revisit why moving toward thoughts and emotions, instead of away, is how you change your habit of overthinking.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O9 - Express Gratitude to Change Your Thinking
31 października 202325 minShift your perspective to look at the importance of practicing gratitude in your life. Heidi shows how your brain can’t focus on positive and negative information at the same time. So, by consciously practicing gratitude, you can train the brain to be selectively focusing on positive emotions and thoughts, which reduces feelings of anxiety and depression.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O10 - Think Clearly with Cognitive Restructuring
31 października 202326 minHeidi introduces the technique from cognitive therapy called cognitive restructuring. This is a deliberate reappraisal of your thoughts, or simply changing your thoughts by thinking about them differently. It’s not easy, but Heidi provides some helpful tips and techniques, including words to be aware of and questions to ask yourself before you go down a rabbit-hole of assumptions.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O11 - Solve Problems More Effectively
31 października 202331 minMany people believe that by overthinking about an issue, they are working on solving their problem. Heidi spends this lecture showing that overthinking is the opposite. It keeps you stuck in the problem, likely making it worse. She provides some tools that can help you change your thoughts to effective problem-solving, such as goal setting and writing out your situation.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakupS1 O12 - Cultivate an Upward Spiral
31 października 202332 minBacked up by scientific research, Heidi demonstrates how deliberately broadening your attention changes the content of your thoughts for the better. The more claustrophobically we view our situation, the more we obsess about how to control or fix it. She provides a final set of tools that can help you widen your attention and perspective and shift you into an upward spiral.Bezpłatny okres próbny kanału The Great Courses Living lub zakup