Behavior shapes mood, not the other way around. The speaker argues that deliberately doing things like socializing, walking, or making art creates a feedback loop that lifts depression. You can't control negative thoughts, but you can choose not to listen to them.
I believe that behavior modifies feelings and thoughts and psyche. Therefore, you have to be mind-directed, not animated by a good voice of ambition, just intellectual understanding, rational understanding. I have to do X and Y and Z. That's why my One of my fundamental beliefs about happiness is act happy, you'll feel happy, or at least feel happier. Get very, very busy. Get with people. Monitor what brings you some relief from depression. Could be music, could be a walk in nature, it could be art, it could be work. Get involved in whatever brings you some peace and keep doing it and keep doing things that you don't even know will bring you peace and try them out. I don't know how to squash those negative voices in you. That's another reason I'm a behaviorist. Let your voices be your voices and don't let them direct you. That's where you do have free will. You may not have free will over these inner voices, but you have free will on whether you listen to them. Mm-hmm.
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