Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia

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Mar 2, 2026

Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K), Harvard-trained psychiatrist blending Western medicine with contemplative Eastern practices. He explores unlearning maladaptive thought and behavior patterns. Short segments cover internet and gaming effects, ambiguity and social-skill decline, tools for feeling feelings, shunya (void) meditation and yoga nidra, and how environment, trauma, and social media reshape motivation and identity.

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Awareness Beats Verbosity About Feelings

Awareness of feelings is the strongest correlate with success and happiness.
Talking about emotions isn't the same as true awareness; therapy and self-observation reveal hidden dynamics that mere vocabulary does not.

Three Steps To Healthy Distress Tolerance

To build distress tolerance, first put words to the emotion to calm the amygdala.
Then cultivate additional emotions and play the tape through to the end to gain perspective and behavioral options.

Differentiate Ego Wants From Inner Drives

Ego comprises every 'I am...' label and is comparative by nature, so external validation fuels endless goalpost-moving.
Peel away ego layers by checking whether desires come from sense organs or enduring internal drives.

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