Re-Air: We Aren’t Our Thoughts! Simple Steps to Achieving Inner Peace, Letting Go of Negative Thoughts & Becoming Happier, Healthier & Calmer

About this episode

The episode revisits a conversation with Joseph Nguyen about overcoming negative thoughts and achieving inner peace.

In honor of Mental Health Month, we’re revisiting an episode that resonated with so many of you from last year with Joseph Nguyen, the New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking is the Beginning and End of Suffering. He gives tips on how to stop overthinking, achieve better mental clarity and elaborates on his teachings on how to surrender and start letting go. He will show you how to have more effective meditation practices, why your current meditation practice might not be working, and how he adapted his practice from the meditation teachings of other experts. Plus! He reveals how he hit his rock bottom, the life transformation he made to stop suffering, and how he paid off his family’s debt. This episode will provide you with tools to cope with anxiety, recover from burnout, and manage workplace stress. From our Breakdown to the one we hope you never have, we wish you a well and healthy Mental Health Awareness Month! Follow us on Substack for Exclusive Bonus Content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bialikbreakdown.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

People in this episode

Host: Mayim Bialik

Guest: Joseph Nguyen

Topics covered

• mental health
• meditation
• overthinking
• inner peace
• anxiety
• burnout
• stress management

Keywords

• mental clarity
• meditation practices
• anxiety coping
• stress management
• negative thoughts

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Don’t Believe Everything You Think

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