Dr. Dave Vago

The idea behind decentering is to provide a healthy psychological distance between oneself and one's thoughts. So you can then take your thought and put it out in front of you and say, well, I'm not angry. I am having a thought that I'm angry or it's not that I am not good enough. It's just a thought that I am not good enough.

The idea behind decentering is to provide a healthy psychological distance between oneself and one's thoughts. So you can then take your thought and put it out in front of you and say, well, I'm not angry. I am having a thought that I'm angry or it's not that I am not good enough. It's just a thought that I am not good enough.

The idea behind decentering is to provide a healthy psychological distance between oneself and one's thoughts. So you can then take your thought and put it out in front of you and say, well, I'm not angry. I am having a thought that I'm angry or it's not that I am not good enough. It's just a thought that I am not good enough.

And that distance, that disidentification from that internal experience is probably one of the most critical mechanisms by which any clinical intervention functions to improve our relationship to our own thoughts and feelings. And this requires strengthening the capacity of what we refer to as meta-awareness.

And that distance, that disidentification from that internal experience is probably one of the most critical mechanisms by which any clinical intervention functions to improve our relationship to our own thoughts and feelings. And this requires strengthening the capacity of what we refer to as meta-awareness.

And that distance, that disidentification from that internal experience is probably one of the most critical mechanisms by which any clinical intervention functions to improve our relationship to our own thoughts and feelings. And this requires strengthening the capacity of what we refer to as meta-awareness.

Great to be here again with you, John. Really great time to think about being PassionStruck.

Great to be here again with you, John. Really great time to think about being PassionStruck.

Great to be here again with you, John. Really great time to think about being PassionStruck.

Oh, sure. Well, I was saying before we started this, we forget there was a pandemic that happened that shut down the whole world for two years. Since 2020, yes, I was an associate professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a faculty member at the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. I was a director of research for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.

Oh, sure. Well, I was saying before we started this, we forget there was a pandemic that happened that shut down the whole world for two years. Since 2020, yes, I was an associate professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a faculty member at the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. I was a director of research for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.

Oh, sure. Well, I was saying before we started this, we forget there was a pandemic that happened that shut down the whole world for two years. Since 2020, yes, I was an associate professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a faculty member at the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. I was a director of research for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.

I was really excited about all the opportunities to do research, specifically looking at mechanisms by which mind-body practices like meditation, yoga, breathwork function to improve health and well-being outcomes. What I realized, though, at 2020 during the pandemic was, aside from being stuck and not being able to do any research,

I was really excited about all the opportunities to do research, specifically looking at mechanisms by which mind-body practices like meditation, yoga, breathwork function to improve health and well-being outcomes. What I realized, though, at 2020 during the pandemic was, aside from being stuck and not being able to do any research,

I was really excited about all the opportunities to do research, specifically looking at mechanisms by which mind-body practices like meditation, yoga, breathwork function to improve health and well-being outcomes. What I realized, though, at 2020 during the pandemic was, aside from being stuck and not being able to do any research,

was that there was a great need for scaling what we're finding in the sciences, in the neurosciences, the neuropsychiatric sciences, also in integrative medicine, to bring that to the world more in a scalable way. There was lots of people who were consuming meditation, mind-body practice from apps and digital health companies that were starting to emerge.

was that there was a great need for scaling what we're finding in the sciences, in the neurosciences, the neuropsychiatric sciences, also in integrative medicine, to bring that to the world more in a scalable way. There was lots of people who were consuming meditation, mind-body practice from apps and digital health companies that were starting to emerge.

was that there was a great need for scaling what we're finding in the sciences, in the neurosciences, the neuropsychiatric sciences, also in integrative medicine, to bring that to the world more in a scalable way. There was lots of people who were consuming meditation, mind-body practice from apps and digital health companies that were starting to emerge.

That's where people were getting information. That's where they were getting their practices and content. But they weren't really backed by a lot of science. In fact, there was very little science happening there. So I had the opportunity to start working remotely for the digital health industry. And my wife's a clinical psychologist. So we decided we also we were living in Nashville, Tennessee.

That's where people were getting information. That's where they were getting their practices and content. But they weren't really backed by a lot of science. In fact, there was very little science happening there. So I had the opportunity to start working remotely for the digital health industry. And my wife's a clinical psychologist. So we decided we also we were living in Nashville, Tennessee.