All of us have patterns we are able to see clearly…and nonetheless can’t appear to cease. This week on the Being Nicely Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest discover how avoidance fuels these patterns, and the way we are able to break the avoidance loop by updating our expectations and predictions in regards to the future. They focus on what avoidance coping is, how the mind works as a prediction machine, why which means perception alone often isn’t sufficient to interrupt a sample, and what the present science of publicity and expectancy violation says about how change really occurs.
That is the primary of two episodes devoted to this subject, the second will deal with the way to courageous our feared experiences and go from perception to motion.
Key Matters
- 00:00: Intro: avoidance coping and psychological predictions
- 8:07: 5 varieties of avoidance behaviors
- 17:35: The invisible cage
- 23:50: Predictive processing
- 29:49: Identification and excessive confidence predictions
- 34:30: How avoidance can perpetuate painful experiences
- 40:01: Publicity and the Inhibitory Studying Mannequin
- 52:00: Answering frequent questions
- 56:07: Recap
