Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia (Healthy Gamer)
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Dr. Alok Kanojia advocates changing core tendencies and personality through psychotherapy, meditation (Shunya void and yoga nidra), and unlearning samskaras—instead of relying on willpower—to build distress tolerance, dissolve ego layers, and access intrinsic drive beyond social media conditioning and comparison traps. Key tools include labeling emotions, cultivating balanced feelings, distinguishing true desires from sense-organ programming, and liminal-state practices like sankalpa for rewiring self-esteem, treating trauma/PTSD, and fostering resilience amid internet-fueled narcissism, AI psychosis risks, and dating atrophy. Eastern-Western synthesis reveals personality as unique roadmaps; prioritize internal observation, ambiguity tolerance, and relationships over external validation for mental health, motivation, and success without burnout.
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Everyone's focused on changing behavior and increasing willpower to overcome tendencies. Instead, change the tendency itself, as done in psychotherapy daily. For narcissistic personality disorder, psychotherapy changes personality, natural thoughts, worldview, and behaviors without requiring willpower. Willpower is necessary to not be narcissistic but not when no longer narcissistic. Psychotherapy changes self-esteem and sense of being, resolving treatment-refractory depression, trauma, and PTSD.
Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast discussing science and science-based tools for everyday life. Andrew Huberman is a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Guest is Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K), psychiatrist and online mental health educator trained in the US and studied as a monk for seven years. Discussion covers tools for increasing self-standing, mental health, rewiring nervous system, unlearning unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors, replacing with beneficial ones. Centers on Eastern vs. Western concepts of ego and self-concept. Provides roadmap for defining best goals, increasing energy and drive via intrinsic motivation. Specific practices to rewire nervous system, resolve traumas, apply efforts in work, school, relationships. Covers social media, dating, relationships, addiction, pornography.
Unique conversation offering new perspective on common struggles with practical tools for theoretical understanding and life improvement. Podcast separate from Stanford roles, brings zero-cost science information to public. Includes sponsors.
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