Dr. K
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You cultivate.
When you talk about an empowering mindset, what is the mechanism of an empowering mindset?
It is responding to certain thoughts in a particular way, but you still don't control them.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So, so this is what's really interesting.
You know, I had a patient who was afraid that her fiance was cheating on him.
I mean, sorry on her.
And so she was like, I want to check your text messages.
And so she thought to herself, if I check his text messages, then I'll know that I can trust him.
But as she feels the anxiety, she checks his text.
And she feels reassured.
But the next day, when she feels anxious.
Let me check again.
Let me check again.
Because her brain is learning that the antidote to anxiety is to check it.
This is really important to understand.
Whatever we feed in the mind grows.
We don't control it.
But we choose what we feed.