Engineering Emotions and Energy with Justin Wenck, Ph.D.
How to Change Your State When You’re Overthinking or Stuck
Sep 14, 2026
Season 1
Episode 235
Kevin MacLeod
You’re capable. You’re not broken. But when thinking harder and working longer keeps leading you into the same wall, instead of more of the same, try changing your state instead. What's that? How's that?
Well, in this episode, Justin shares three practical ways to shift your physical, emotional, and mental state: movement, breathwork, and affirmations (or, as he prefers to call them, better-quality thoughts). He also guides you through a short breathing practice you can use almost anywhere to feel calmer, clearer, more connected, and back in command.
You’ll also hear a little behind the scenes from Justin’s recent retreat at Mount Shasta, where he taught his LEAP practice to a spiritually minded group and was reminded that knowing something is not the same as having a tool you can actually use in the moment.
You’ll learn:
- Why changing your state can work when more thinking does not
- How movement helps you get out of your head and into your body
- Why breathwork can shift your emotional state quickly, and why intensity is not always better
- A simple four-part breathing reset you can try during the episode
- How to replace unhelpful mental loops with better-quality thoughts
- How LEAP combines physical, mental, emotional, and energetic change in four minutes
What's your favorite way to change your state: movement, breathwork, or better thoughts?
Learn the four-minute LEAP practice live with Justin:
https://www.justinwenck.com/leap
Justin’s next live LEAP workshop is Sunday, September 20 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific. If you cannot attend, use the same link to get on the list for a future session.
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