there's so many things that we do unconsciously right every time you're
waiting in line for coffee and you reach for your cell phone or when you're
driving you get stuck in a stoplight and you got to fidget around or play with
something there are so many things that we do just to distract ourselves and in
this video we're gonna talk about the insane results about the psychological
study and you probably can relate what is everybody this is Chris from the
rewired so when we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if
you're new to my channel my channel is all about helping you improve your
mental health so if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe
and bring that notification bell so yeah this is a psychological test that I've
heard about through a bunch of different books that I've read and like I don't
know it just came up in a new book that I'm reading I'm gonna link down my
entire mental health reading list but psychological studies are very very
interesting like most of them are just purely insane like the things that they
make people do like social psychology like just understanding human behavior
and things like that but today we're going to be talking about a study from
2014 from the University of Virginia so this is a study that was actually
conducted by a psychologist at the University of Virginia and his name is
Timothy Wilson and this test oh my goodness this test it is I don't know it
really shows you like the truth about the human condition you know what I mean
well you don't know what I mean let me tell you what the test is anyways so
they've got hundreds and hundreds of students to participate in their
psychological tests all right by the way if any of you went to college you liked
participated in a psychological test like make sure you comment down below I
want to hear about him because I'm always fascinated by these tests so
anyways they did a couple levels of this test but anyways they decided to take
this test further and just see right because they
were trying to like look at like boredom and things like that and what people
would do so basically what they did they rounded up hundreds and hundreds of
students of what they did through this test was they sat them in a room okay
they saw them in a room by themselves okay from anywhere from
10 to 20 minutes I believe it was okay there's nothing in the room there's just
them sitting down at a desk and on that desk is a button that they can push and
they are hooked up to these wires okay and if you push that button it sends an
electric shock to you it shocks you it electrocute you okay so basically they
were trying to see with a person rather shock themselves then just sit alone
with their thoughts so when they set them there they said all you gotta do
for the next 10 to 15 minutes is you're sick in quiet reflection just reflect
just look at your thoughts see what your brain is doing right but if you would
like you can buzz yourself and the results will blow your mind what they
found what they found was 67 percent 67 percent of men hit that button okay 25
percent of women hit the button there was one guy we're in a span of 20
minutes he electrocuted himself 120 times and when asked about this why they
did it people would rather Lee experience physical pain than just sit
there with their own mind like what what like I don't know if you can relate to
this like I'm curious like do you think you would do that because one of the
reasons I have this channel is because these these results even though the
shocking it's not even that surprising you know what I mean like what are the
biggest things that I try to get people to do is meditate and practice
mindfulness and so many people can't do it we are so so afraid of our thoughts
and our emotions like it's nuts it's not if I get that like this thing up here
for most of us is our worst enemy like I hated being alone in my thoughts that's
one of the reasons I was turning to substances for so long I hated feeling I
hated thinking I hated all the voices in my head just I'm not good enough for
things that I should be angry about or the way you know people hurt me or the
people I liked and they didn't like me back there's all these things they drove
me nuts that's just really fascinating to me
like why do we try so hard to run away from these thoughts and these emotions
that's why I can't recommend meditation enough for you guys like like meditation
what it does is our brain is in two states constantly okay two states you
ready for this not a million just two okay either
attraction or aversion all right our brain turns towards things that give us
pleasure and it turns away from things that give us pain okay but a lot of
times this is emotional pain you see what I'm saying so we're constantly
looking for things to distract ourselves like is it any wonder that people are
trying to develop technology addictions like social media addictions you know
video game addictions gambling addictions substance abuse all these
things because we are constantly trying to avoid the pain right what meditation
does for you it rewires your brain there is a reason why my channel is called the
rewired soul you can rewire your brain the thing is that you have to train it
to respond differently to these scenarios in life like all of these
different types of stresses or anxieties or fears or sadness or anger what
meditation does helps turn towards it it's building up this resilience okay so
when you meditate for five to ten minutes a day you start to build up this
resilience you're not trying to avoid these things you turn towards it and
what it does is you start to really feel like a badass if I'm being completely
honest like I no longer have to run away from my feelings this I could sit and
just embrace them and acknowledge them running through my body and what they
feel like the physical sensation like I remember one of the first meditation
teachers I had they started talking about like rather than noticing the
thoughts that are running through your head try to notice what anger feels like
right I didn't notice what fear feels like try to notice what you know anxiety
or sadness feels like in the body you start to notice okay like anxiety kind
of feels like warmth in my chest you know anger kind of feels like tension in
my head and the beautiful part about that is
it's a lot easier to deal with physical sensations than these emotional ones so
you can start to train your mind to acknowledge the physical sensations now
now it's kind of similar to that electric shock you know what I mean like
but you don't have to electrocute yourself to get rid of this stuff you
know I made a video just the other day that I'm gonna link up in the info card
about how addiction is everywhere it's because we're constantly trying to run
away from the way that we're feeling I mentioned in that video the three
reasons that people are you know abuse anything right or addicted to you know
substances but anything we're talking about sex gambling food whatever the
three reasons are to get a feeling to get rid of a feeling or to have an
escape but when we meditate and we build up this resilience that's emotional and
mental resilience we're no longer trying to get certain feelings or get rid of
certain feelings are trying to escape we're just able to be present and
embrace this thing and we get stronger every time we do it science has proven
if you meditate for five to ten minutes a day you're strengthening your
prefrontal cortex part of the prefrontal cortexes responsibility is emotional
regulation so simply by meditating you will have better control over your
emotional reactions to your thoughts as well as the circumstances in your life I
would love to know your thoughts like what do you think okay
do you think you're the type of person who would hit that buzzer to electrocute
yourself rather than sitting in your own thoughts like leave comments down below
let's discuss or let's do this - have you tried meditating before what did you
like what didn't you like what are your obstacles and things like that because I
really want to make more videos about how much meditation can help I even need
to make like my own meditation app and things like that but anyways leave
comments down below alright because this is like the thing that completely turned
my mental health around a few years ago when I started meditating so let me know
your experience about it down below in the comments okay but anyways that's all
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