Episode Details

In part three of the Thought Model series, I get into the actual science of what happens in your body when an emotion fires. An emotion has a 90-second physiological lifespan. After that, the only thing keeping a feeling alive is the thought that keeps retriggering it. Dr. Candace Pert showed that emotions are biochemical events happening throughout your entire body, not just your brain. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk showed the body stores emotional imprints that the thinking mind cannot fix on its own. When a strong emotion fires, your prefrontal cortex goes partially offline, which Dr. Daniel Siegel calls flipping your lid. Willpower does not work in that state. The sequence is: let the chemistry move through, breathe, regulate, and then examine the thought. Anxiety, grief, anger, and sadness are all messengers with information. You are not too emotional. You are human and your feelings are doing exactly what they were designed to do.

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Chapters:

00:00 — The 90-Second Emotion: What That Actually Means
 01:30 — Feelings Are Caused by Thoughts Not Circumstances
 02:30 — The Biochemistry: Dr. Candace Pert and Molecules of Emotion
 04:00 — Why Feelings Live in Your Body: Gut, Chest, Throat
 05:00 — The Body Keeps the Score: You Cannot Think Your Way Out
 06:00 — Flipping Your Lid: Why Willpower Fails Mid-Emotion
 07:30 — The Sequence: Regulate First, Examine the Thought Second
 08:00 — Feelings Are Information Not Problems
 09:00 — Anxiety, Grief, Anger, Sadness: What Each One Is Telling You
 10:00 — Emotional Intelligence and Why It Changes Everything
 11:00 — Next Episode: Actions, Results and How to Change Your Life on Purpose