The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
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The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Audio Essay #10: A New Years Resolution that Works (Long-term Behaviour Change)
This podcast is a guide to making any kind of resolution towards long term change and it includes:
Intro 00:00
Listener Shout-Out 02:30
Choosing the area you want to work on (what is bothering you?) 03:33
Framing the resolution appropriately 06:15
Making a plan using the zone of proximal development 08:07
Choosing high leverage activities 12:37
Using positive and negative emotions to help you make progress 14:25
Measuring your results correctly to remain reality oriented and motivated 16:50
Not using failure as an excuse to regress, analysing your sticking points with detatched compassion 20:05
Recognising and disregarding mental noise 23:07
Recognising the role of motivation, discipline, will power and habit 24:22
Allowing for identity level change 27:15
Viewing your behaviours as collisions with reality you can learn from 29:33
Outro 34:45
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Audio-essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a specialist registrar in General Adult psychiatry in the South London and Maudsley NHS foundation trust with a special interest in psychotherapy and mindfulness meditation.
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