Emotions are the Record of the Past — Transcript

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1. 0:00If someone is stuck in their head, call
2. 0:02it the analytical mind, thinking,
3. 0:03criticizing, judging, assessing, you
4. 0:06know, worrying. I guess they're
5. 0:07analytical about a situation, right and
6. 0:09wrong. What is that doing to their body
7. 0:12if their mind is always analytical?
8. 0:15>> Yeah. I don't think there's anything
9. 0:16wrong with the analytical mind. I really
10. 0:18love my analytical mind. I think you do
11. 0:20too because what the analytical mind is
12. 0:22for is to weigh known against unknowns.
13. 0:24>> Strategizing.
14. 0:25>> Yeah. To kind of just go, okay, I know
15. 0:26this. I want this. How am I going to go
16. 0:28from wanting this to having this? Right?
17. 0:31And the analytical mind tries
18. 0:32possibilities. Yeah. Tries to figure
19. 0:33things out. And I think it's good. It
20. 0:34helps us to navigate in our world.
21. 0:36Right.
22. 0:36>> When does the analytical mind get in our
23. 0:38way?
24. 0:38>> Yeah, that's a great question. So when
25. 0:40you get stressed out, when you get
26. 0:42anxious, when you get fearful, when you
27. 0:43get angry, when you get agitated, when
28. 0:44you get frustrated, when you feel pain,
29. 0:46suffering, guilt, those kind of limited
30. 0:48emotions start to drive the analytical
31. 0:50mind to overanalyze
32. 0:53>> and to overthink. And what we've
33. 0:54discovered when we analyze our life
34. 0:58within some disturbing emotion, we make
35. 1:01our brains worse
36. 1:02>> because because the emotion is a record
37. 1:05of the past. So you're thinking in the
38. 1:07past, you're thinking in the box.
39. 1:08There's no solution there. So every time
40. 1:10you start thinking, overanalyzing,
41. 1:12you're producing the chemistry to arouse
42. 1:14your brain and body even more. And now
43. 1:16you're in a loop, right? And that's kind
44. 1:17of ruminating or whatever you want to
45. 1:18call that, obsessing, overfocusing. tend
46. 1:21to narrow our focus on something. Like
47. 1:23when we're under stress, it's really
48. 1:24important to put all of your attention
49. 1:26on the cause, right? Because you got to
50. 1:27be able to deal with it. But a lot of
51. 1:29times those causes are fictitious,
52. 1:31right?
53. 1:31>> And so now we're overfocusing our
54. 1:33attention on something and the act of
55. 1:35overfocusing our attention drives our
56. 1:37brain further out of balance, right? We
57. 1:39start revving it up into more aroused
58. 1:40states. The answer will never be there
59. 1:43because that person's thinking in the
60. 1:45known.