Dr. Dave Vago

And that could leave you feeling unsatisfied or unsuccessful in your attempts to reach those goals. And that's where acceptance practice can be very helpful. And there's aspects of even co-regulation with others or connection that can help you so you're not completely relying on just oneself. For grit.

And there's always a growth mindsets that help with the tools to develop self regulatory capacity. And again, this is all about just calming the mind, right, all the mental afflictions that come with having a mind. have to be tamed in some way. So inhibitory control, learning how to deal with impulses, but also just learning to regulate and stabilize flexibly your attention is critical.

And there's always a growth mindsets that help with the tools to develop self regulatory capacity. And again, this is all about just calming the mind, right, all the mental afflictions that come with having a mind. have to be tamed in some way. So inhibitory control, learning how to deal with impulses, but also just learning to regulate and stabilize flexibly your attention is critical.

And there's always a growth mindsets that help with the tools to develop self regulatory capacity. And again, this is all about just calming the mind, right, all the mental afflictions that come with having a mind. have to be tamed in some way. So inhibitory control, learning how to deal with impulses, but also just learning to regulate and stabilize flexibly your attention is critical.

And that leads to the most fundamental part of self-regulation, which is equanimity, to be able to respond to challenges without reacting and to weather the storm, even maybe the sound of a dog barking in the background without letting it disrupt your level of calm, for example.

And that leads to the most fundamental part of self-regulation, which is equanimity, to be able to respond to challenges without reacting and to weather the storm, even maybe the sound of a dog barking in the background without letting it disrupt your level of calm, for example.

And that leads to the most fundamental part of self-regulation, which is equanimity, to be able to respond to challenges without reacting and to weather the storm, even maybe the sound of a dog barking in the background without letting it disrupt your level of calm, for example.

Let's try to unpack that a little. So memory, of course, has its nuances and complications of how a memory is formed in different modalities, right? So you have different sensory modalities that you have an experience with, and each one has a unique way of consolidating into some permanent trace in your brain and that's subject to retrieval later.

Let's try to unpack that a little. So memory, of course, has its nuances and complications of how a memory is formed in different modalities, right? So you have different sensory modalities that you have an experience with, and each one has a unique way of consolidating into some permanent trace in your brain and that's subject to retrieval later.

Let's try to unpack that a little. So memory, of course, has its nuances and complications of how a memory is formed in different modalities, right? So you have different sensory modalities that you have an experience with, and each one has a unique way of consolidating into some permanent trace in your brain and that's subject to retrieval later.

You can recall that experience in some reconstructed way and think about it. And unfortunately, if you really think about memory enough, you realize how very little we can recall about our life.

You can recall that experience in some reconstructed way and think about it. And unfortunately, if you really think about memory enough, you realize how very little we can recall about our life.

You can recall that experience in some reconstructed way and think about it. And unfortunately, if you really think about memory enough, you realize how very little we can recall about our life.

You think about some of the most profound moments in our lives that we can recall, and they're always associated with intense arousal or some sort of high level of emotion, and often some sort of trauma, unfortunately. So it's the way that memory is, or that experiences are encoded into our memory It really depends on those factors of intensity and arousal and emotion.

You think about some of the most profound moments in our lives that we can recall, and they're always associated with intense arousal or some sort of high level of emotion, and often some sort of trauma, unfortunately. So it's the way that memory is, or that experiences are encoded into our memory It really depends on those factors of intensity and arousal and emotion.

You think about some of the most profound moments in our lives that we can recall, and they're always associated with intense arousal or some sort of high level of emotion, and often some sort of trauma, unfortunately. So it's the way that memory is, or that experiences are encoded into our memory It really depends on those factors of intensity and arousal and emotion.

If there's a need for there to be a learned experience that we want to be able to recall later in an episodic way, meaning there's a feeling state associated with it, there's maybe some visual kind of representation that we can recall. Maybe there's other sensory aspects of the memory that we want to bring back later.

If there's a need for there to be a learned experience that we want to be able to recall later in an episodic way, meaning there's a feeling state associated with it, there's maybe some visual kind of representation that we can recall. Maybe there's other sensory aspects of the memory that we want to bring back later.

If there's a need for there to be a learned experience that we want to be able to recall later in an episodic way, meaning there's a feeling state associated with it, there's maybe some visual kind of representation that we can recall. Maybe there's other sensory aspects of the memory that we want to bring back later.

That's very unique to say something like riding a bike and learning how to ride a bike because that's also a memory, but it's a skill based memory that we refer to as a procedural or skill based type of memory. And in fact, even automatized thoughts can also engage the same circuitry as riding a bike or skill based procedural types of memory.