#1 Skill for Enjoying Life More: Staying Flexible

Help Me, Rhonda! with Dr. Rhonda Karg

In today's episode of "Help Me, Rhonda!," clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg teaches the skill she calls "wearing life like a loose-fitting garment" or being flexible. When we get disappointed or things happen that we don't want to be happening, we can use the core mindfulness and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skill of using a teflon mind and being flexible. Starting your day with the intention of being flexible will train your brain into being more flexible and thereby experiencing more joy in your life if you practice it. This is a great way to start out your day: From a place of patience, grace, and flexibility. It will shape how the rest of your day turns out because you will have an attitude of flexibility therefore allowing you to "go with the flow" and not become disturbed by being attached to the outcome. This skill can be used to help improve your mood, regulate your big emotions, cope with stressful situations, and live a more rich, full life by being right here, right now. She describes the benefits of being present to help reduce symptoms for a wide variety of mental conditions, including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and substance abuse by boosting your serotonin and preventing you from being out in the future (anxiety) or back in the past (depression) because you are right here, right now, in the present moment, using your teflon mind and not getting attached to your thoughts and feelings, other people's moods, and what's going on around you -- just noticing and being flexible.
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