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It's actually criminal that you weren't taught this. So I'm going to teach it for you. You right now are on autopilot. That means you have a thought, you feel a negative emotion and you blindly follow it without stopping a question if it's rational or productive. This is leading you to feel unnecessary negative emotions. How do we face this? The first thing is to be aware of the shift. There's two ways to be aware of the shift. You can notice it cognitively. You can notice a shift in your thoughts when you begin to feel onset of a negative emotion or you can notice it somatically in your body. You can begin to notice how there's a heat in your chest, a pit in your stomach, whatever it is. And then from there, there is a beautiful four-step process that you can apply so that we are not feeling unnecessary suffering. Instead of just giving you the definition of notice, which is metacognition, it's awareness understanding and analyzing your thoughts, instead of just giving you that information and you now have to force yourself to feel it, we can't do this by force. But the beauty is that psychology has already done the heavy lifting for you and has developed these 13 gorgeous skills that you can figure out which one works best for you and your brain. And the cool part is that we all have different brains, right? And one of these is the perfect key for your brain. My personal favorite is cognitive diffusion up here, but your personal favorite might be thank you mind. And it is the perfect key that unlocks emotional well-being regulation and resilience in your brain. So I just gave you a brief overview of notice, but then we have reframe redirect and accept which is a gift because if you apply the skill of cognitive diffusion and it doesn't diffuse your unnecessary negative emotion, you have three more opportunities and one of them will. So rather than just feeling overwhelmed by your thought processes and feeling out of control of your thoughts and your emotions, you go from A to B to C to D that allows you to feel peace, well-being, and emotional regulation. So now that I talked about all this to you, what are we going to do, right? Well, the first thing to do is notice, just like I told you back here, we become aware of the shift. I talk in depth about this in my video titled Making Your Brain in a Joyful Place to Be, Step 1, Notice. I also go into a little bit of detail of my favorite skill of cognitive diffusion. And then we have thought labeling and thought container, the two videos after that. So instead of running through all these 13 skills and making 13 separate videos, which I probably will eventually do, right? Now I'm just going to do one video of all the tools in a speed run so that you can tell me which one you want me to go in depth in first. And then we can teach you how to avoid unnecessary negative emotions. I'm going to go through this, these four. So if you're just now joining me, perfect timing because we got some beautiful work to do. It's not overwhelming. It's not too much. It's a gift that you're giving your future self. I went from suicidal and depressed to joyful and getting my doctorate because of this info. So if you want to learn, stick around and I promise you will learn so much that will change the rest of your life. Okay, I love you, bye.