Dr. Aravind Padmaraju shares a one-minute technique to interrupt depressive or anxious thoughts: look up and try to touch your tongue to your nose while focusing on the troubling thought, repeating until the feeling fades. He argues that negative emotions are repetitive patterns you can break by shifting your body and keeping a big smile.
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Welcome to day 46 of the 100 Days 1 Minute Habit Challenge. And today's challenge is going to transform you once for all. So if you're feeling depressed and if you're feeling that stress, you're feeling like there's no other thoughts I can think about, I feel like giving up my life, and even if you have suicidal thoughts, do this one simple shift and try to think about what you're thinking. I want you to look up and try to touch your tongue with your nose. And I want you to try to think about what is bothering you right now. Do this until you are not able to feel it. I want you to do— keep doing that and try to think about whatever the worry or whatever that stress or whatever that depression thought which is going on in your mind and see what happens. So let me tell you one thing, all the emotions what you're going through are lies. It is repeatedly happened, it became a pattern. How you can break a pattern? By changing the physiology. You can do anything Any funny thing which you can do for a longer period of time, you can. And also do this, have a big smile on your face.