"Why You’re Always Bored, Unhappy & Stuck" – Reinvent Your Life With This | Dr. K (HealthyGamer)
Rangan Chatterjee
Jun 4, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Avoid traditional mindfulness to protect against trauma overwhelm
For people with trauma, traditional mindfulness can be harmful because creating a mental vacuum can cause suppressed trauma to rush up and overwhelm them.
Strengthen feet with Vivo Barefoot shoes for better joint health
Wearing wide, thin, and flexible shoes like Vivo Barefoot can strengthen your feet by around 60% in four months, which can help with issues in the ankles, knees, hips, and back.
Increase distress tolerance to combat mental illness
A low capacity to tolerate distress is a transdiagnostic root cause for many mental illnesses, including addiction and anxiety disorders.
Choose discomfort to strengthen willpower
When you choose to do something uncomfortable like taking the stairs, you activate and strengthen the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of your brain where willpower comes from.
Limit technology use to strengthen emotional regulation
Relying on technology like social media or video games to manage our feelings causes our brain to lose its own capacity to regulate emotions.
Engage your mind to prevent mental rust
The human mind and brain don't wear out with usage; they rust from a lack of being used, leading to a deconditioning of our mental circuits.
Recognize happiness as your default state of mental stillness
Happiness is our default state of mental stillness, and it's the creation of desires that interrupts this state, not the fulfillment of desires that creates it.
Practice inaction to break bad habits
The skill to break any bad habit is to practice inaction, and you can train this fundamental skill by simply practicing sitting still without reacting to urges.
Practice Gai's theorem to cultivate present focus through stillness
The practice of Gai's theorem, or holding the body perfectly still for 5-10 minutes, creates such intense discomfort that the breath becomes your only refuge, naturally forcing you into the present moment.
Utilize SSRIs to promote brain growth and combat depression
SSRIs may treat depression by triggering an increase of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), which causes remodeling and growth in the brain over four to eight weeks.
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