Dr. Arash Javanbakt

compared to the reality of what you experienced.

Then we can use our cognitive brain to basically readjust that next time we are in a situation that we are worrying about.

The other thing that fear and anxiety do is that, which is amazing about us.

So we as a species are capable of reflecting on the past and planning for the future.

But the problem is that even right now, our listeners are not 100% here.

Part of the brain processing is in what happened earlier and in what's about to happen in a few minutes or a few hours or tomorrow, the meeting I have tomorrow, what I'm going to have for dinner, when I go home, what challenge I will have.

All of these things are constantly here.

And if we were able to be exactly in here and now, we would be a lot less stressed and a lot less anxious.

And if you wanted, we can at some point have a two-minute practice of just doing that.

Yeah, I can guide a one-minute experiment between us and the audience if you want.

Okay, so I want you all to pay close attention, just with the count of fingers, or just tell me or yourself how many sounds you're hearing at this very moment.

Two, how many colors, as many as they are, do you see around you in the room?

Seven, eight.

And you can count and focus more and more as much as possible because there are different shades even in the same object.

Right.

And then I want you to feel your shoes.

Feel exactly every inch of the shoe.

There are parts that the foot is touching the shoe.

There are parts that are not touching.

There are parts which are less comfortable.