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What's Renting Space in Your Mind?
Engineering Emotions and Energy with Justin Wenck, Ph.D.
What’s currently renting space in your mind?
If you look around and feel like the world is in pure chaos, or you're constantly overwhelmed, or maybe you just feel completely alone even when surrounded by people you love, then you’ve allowed some bad ideas to take up residency.
We’ve been taught that when we have a problem, we just need to grind away, hustle harder, and work on the solution until it goes away. But you've probably already worked harder than most people realize, even harder than you give yourself credit for, and those same challenges are still staring you in the face. The truth is, your system wasn't designed to just take on the garbage ideas that were handed to you when you were younger and keep running them forever.
Episode Overview
In this episode of Engineering Emotions and Energy, we are looking at the inner real estate of your mind through the lens of a landlord-tenant relationship. Just because a thought, belief, or old habit is inside your head doesn't mean it belongs to you. It’s time to take stock of who is living in your mind rent-free, evict the toxic tenants that are trashing the place, and bring in new beliefs that actually serve your life, your body, and your purpose.
Key Ideas / Takeaways
- The Rent-Free Trapping: Why a lot of what you believe, want, or find true isn't actually yours—it’s just old programming you took on as a child to survive.
- The Pacifica Pier Shift: How a collapsing 30-year-old coffee shop on the coast reminds us that structural changes in our world are opportunities for better things to arrive.
- The Owner-Occupier Mindset: How to stop letting garbage thoughts degrade your mindspace and start enforcing rules for what gets to live inside your head.
- Reframing the Purpose Search: A practical, stress-free alternative thought loop for when you feel lost or disconcerted about your life's purpose.
- The Masters of the Universe Epiphany: What a cheesy 80s movie character can teach us about realizing the power was this whole time.
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