Your living laboratory
Turning worry into contentment
February 6, 2012One great way to stop depression
February 15, 2012In this show host Michael Anne Conley shares a perspective about how you can approach your changes more effectively by being a scientist in your own experimental laboratory. This episode includes experiential exercises.
Michael Anne Conley
As a habit change expert, my approach to transforming habits is the result of 30 years experience serving clients who are dealing with all kinds of habits that create problems for themselves and others. (That includes the habit of worrying about someone else's habits!)
As a holistic therapist, I've developed a step-by-step process that can help you stop feeling energetically drained, wondering what you're doing wrong or what's wrong with you, and start creating healthy habits that serve you in moving your life where you want to go.
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All your videos are so good. You are an iirtisapnon I have been practicing meditation now for almost 3 months now and it seems as though it only gets better and better. I hear that there’s a state of consciousness that a person can reach that delivers epiphany after epiphany (at least to my understanding that’s what it feels like). Everything makes sense after you meditate for a while, is this true? Can one gain wisdom through observations of the Self rather than observations from the world?
It sounds like you’ve been receiving your own rewards. With anything, I’d say that the reward of practice is practice. In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell tells stories about success, how we develop expertise that leads to success, and it turns out that practice is key. If you do something, attend to it, practice it, for 10,000 hours, which in an typical life ends up being about 20 years (given that we’re not practicing something, even a work task, every moment of every hour), you end up being pretty good at it. If you have a natural affinity for something, then your capacity soars. When we apply this to personal habits though, this is really, really important: If you practice a habit that doesn’t serve you, then you get good at that. So practice behaviors that serve. You might be interested in another podcast on the Three Blessings exercise, too. The episode was about depression, but the exercise discovered by Martin Seligman’s research makes it a very important practice!