Doctor Mike

Yeah, for sure.

It's huge.

It's unbelievable.

It's not.

I mean, it's just cognitive behavioral therapy is just an area of metacognition.

Fundamentally, it's a kind of metacognition.

And there are metacognitive techniques that are not in, I mean, prayer isn't part of cognitive behavioral therapy, but prayer of petition does the same thing.

When you say, Lord-

I'm feeling really angry right now.

What you've done is you've moved the experience of your anger from your limbic system into your prefrontal cortex because you can't talk about it when it's still limbic.

Because it's inchoate, right?

You can't, or when you write things down.

So journaling, for example.

I mean, it's a different suite of things where you make things explicit.

You make things real as opposed to pushing them away so they're less real.

Make them more real.

Mm-hmm.

And that's the same thing as any sort of exposure to anything that you're finding uncomfortable.

If you said, hey, man, I'm afraid of snakes, how do you get rid of that?

Well, we start exposing you little by little to snakes because we want to make it ordinary.