Dr. Alia Crum

And what this study shows is that our mindsets also matter.

The settings of the mind that we're in when we eat will change how we experience that food, both on a taste level, but also on a physical level.

Yeah, well, first of all, Alyssa, thank you for sharing that.

It's always so wonderful to know that the work we're doing is useful.

What's happening there is really powerful, right?

Which is first, you know, going back, her mind was set by probably some experience that she had as a child where she maybe got sick on a plane or maybe was on a plane and felt deep fear and anxiety or lack of control or whatever it was.

on that plane.

And that memory kind of forged in her mind as a setting, right?

That, you know, if you fly, you will feel horrible.

You will feel out of control.

You will feel sick.

You will feel, I don't know what it was, but I'm guessing there was some association that was made between flying and physical symptoms.

Now, what's kind of glitchy about the mind and the body is that learning that, what the mind does is thinks, oh, I need to protect you from ever experiencing that again, right?

So it thinks, let's avoid planes, right?

Let's avoid any kind of situations when you're going to feel like that again.

But it also perpetuates this belief that if she flies, she's going to feel those things, right?

Now, the belief and the kind of desire to protect was well-intended.

But what happens is that belief creates the reality.

So when she gets on a plane feeling, I'm afraid to fly because I'm going to get sick, go back to those four mechanisms.

What does she start paying attention to?