
In this short guided coaching segment, Paridhi Dhingra leads participant Prakash through a visualization exercise designed to demonstrate how mental representations can be altered to lessen emotional upset caused by a bothersome person. She first asks Prakash to identify someone who irritates him and to notice the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues that accompany that mental image. Paridhi then shows an image of a Joker, emphasizing its vivid visual features, and asks Prakash to imagine the Joker and then overlay those Joker characteristics (e.g., red hair) onto the irritating person. The shift in perception—seeing the person as a Joker—immediately reduces the emotional impact, illustrating what Paridhi calls “subconscious reprogramming.” The exchange underscores the claim that by consciously reshaping sensory associations, one can quickly change emotional responses.










