I talk to my brain. I speak to it loudly. I tell it we are not in danger, tasks are good for us, it doesn't need to save us from them. At night I say "You did a good job today. Tomorrow there's a lot to do, so please rest. I love U."

Glad to see there are others who tend to rewatch things until they memorize each and every single line

your video quality has been absolutely phenomenal lately

Seeing this after spending the day procrastinating instead of studying for an upcoming exam brings on a whole new level of guilt... but it's comforting to know that it's a universal problem

I realised just recently how well I'm doing since your ending sentence: "don't believe everything you think" has embedded in my brain. Thank you for every single video, Elizabeth, you've really changed the way I think and generally exist - more for myself, less for others.

as someone (one of many) who has been struggling with attention due to an addiction to scrolling and has been reading all sorts of materials to understand why my brain functions like this - this video has been the most insightful source of information i've come across in a very long time. You've completely shifted my perspective on journaling - i usually think of it as a chore, but you've made me realize the benefits in a way i've never even thought of. Endless thanks and I wish you all the best, don't let imposter syndrome get to you

I've never heard anxiety described more precisely.

WOW. I have been struggling to finish my PhD dissertation for about five years. Much of this video resonated for me very strongly, but especially the Miracle Question and the Dialogue with Works made me tear up. I really think they might help me finally push through. Thank you so much!🙏

You do an excellent job of explaining pretty complicated topics, give yourself props for that. You are adding a lot of value to the world.

Love how this type of open journaling is [sounds like] a partial derivative of traversing the labyrinth.

Not only are you my kind of human, but also you are a true human who looks at common problems and tries to find accessible and applicable solutions to counter them. And this is so rare to find in our selfish world❤. Sending my love Elsie.

I had never heard of the orientation response, but that makes a lot of sense, when constantly changing context tires me out and loses my focus. Thanks for putting words to that!

OMG Elizabeth... you just hit every nail every time. But I have never heard a better explanation on anxiety and how to deal with it before. Big BIG THANK YOU

Another great video. You always put so much work and research into your videos. It’s very apparent. Thank you. I always look forward to your posts.

Amazing video. So informative, researched, engaging, and with a bunch of studies I haven’t ever heard before! The part on narrative flow and presence was so accurate to my anxiety, I can’t believe I have never heard it explained that way before. I am about to rewatch this video and take notes! 📝 Your content is in a class of its own. 👏

Elizabeth!! You've reminded me of my love for journaling and how effective it has been in helping me go through life in tough times, sprinkled with self-loathing here and there! You are so eloquent, and your bravery for vulnerability is beautiful, it enabled me to see that hey, there are people who had similar struggles as me. Journaling/writing has been a tremendous help but I would also like to point out that it could be a tool that encourages rumination, even more than what I already tend to do. And there are times where I was way too anxious that I didn't have the capacity for coherent thoughts, much less an ability to properly hold a pen down and write. It took me too long to realize that sometimes, I just needed to breathe. And accept that I don't need to have everything figured out /right now/. I feel that I do best when I strike the balance between conscious processing such as journaling, self-talk, therapy, and the unconscious, such as breathing, taking a walk, singing, dancing, staring out at trees or the night sky for just a bit too long, and-- sleeping! The body keeps the score, after all. I'm wondering if this is an area that you have an interest in exploring? I absolutely adored how you described thought and cognitive processes, it made me super curious if you were to talk about your findings about topics that are less about cognition itself, and more about how the physical realm perceived by the body influenced cognition. Thank you for existing, Elizabeth!!🌱

Dialogue with Works reminds me of how Hans Zimmer writes his pieces for a lady and how he uses the music to take her away from her 9-5 job. It was in the latest Netflix documentary. I was happy to hear his views aligned with his teachings in the masterclass project he was apart of. Thanks for the video, it was a nice perspective shift and will definitely add some more thought to each word I write as I plan ahead to something new. Your a pretty awesome person, and I hope everyone in this community can enjoy their summer.

There isn't one moment in your videos when I want them to be over. Absolutely adore how you explain your thoughts.

Your video’s aesthetics are to die for. The visuals the sound effects and background, and you yourself are amazing. Thank you for this high quality content that we are lacking nowadays.

The production value on this is exceptional. Excellent work, thank you ever so much for the free resources and information. 🙂

Since i'm going into a horrific routine lately this just comes handy, thank you for this video Elizabeth! (the final part definitely made me smile) ❤

Elizabeth you really made my day Today because since morning I am not well and your videos are really really helpful to me♥️😀

Love this video! The background music chosen is fantastic!❤

Thank you for pulling through with your own mental resistance and putting this extremely helpful video out 🥰 really thank you and be blessed for your effort!

Thanks a ton, Elizabeth. You are totally total in many ways. Many smiles and much metta.

this channel is genuinely underrated, especially for visual learners, and these editing techniques, creative ideas, and the quality in your videos feel like they increase my interest and curiosity by 10 fold, your advices and techniques for learning in general have been helping so much for the last few days and made me from someone who barely didn’t look for school and learning, to someone who’s genuinely interested and has an emotional connection with learning new things and ideas, I can’t wait for summer to be over to make myself and my mother proud. Thank you for changing how I should think about learning, because this is definitely how i want to think of it now, keep on inspiring other people Elizabeth

This was brilliant, once again! You're the only brain on the internet that seems to make sense to me and the first person that convinced me to actually start journalling. Thank you, I needed this!

THISSS IS SOOOO FANTABULOUS AND MIND BOGGLING. YOU ARE A QUEEN LIZ !!! I LOVED THE EDITING AND THIS VIDEO REALLY WAS WHAT I WANTED!!! THIS VID IS SOO HELPFUL . I LOVE ITTTT❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💜💜💜💜💜😇😇😇😊😊😊🤗🤗🤗

Life changing perspective!thabk you for the effort you put in to put together this nasterpiece of a video!

Thanks Elizabeth! I look forward to your videos and will watch them from beginning to end. You have a gift of gab that is quite rare. Besides, it's rare to meet people so introspective and thoughtful. Never thought about anthropomorphizing my "to-do" list. I'm going to have to give that a try. Two more things: I was a huge fan of Freud growing up and used to read his books, and case studies fervently, but I never knew he had "journals". Will have to take a look at those too. Also, I learnt through another youtuber that we needed to talk to ourselves similarly to how we talk to our best friends. For instance, I can talk to myself quite negatively when I don't finish a project or task. I can be very difficult on myself, but I realized that I would never talk to my BFF like that. I would be much kinder when speaking with them about any issues they may have about life. I had to slowly learn to listen to my inner voice and modify its modality.

This video is absolutely phenomenal. I was so immersed, I literally had to pull myself back to where I was when the video ended. Super helpful.

She's back! This video was helpful, I'm going to spend the day thinking about how to implement this into my routine.

Great content. You're videos have been very helpful lately. The channel's close to 1M subs. Hoping you cross that mark soon enough!🙌

Glad you’re back! Love your videos ❤

this was such a fantastic and helpful video! thank you Elizabeth!

Wonderful video Elizabeth. You are a shining star of intellect and very human as well. I have journaled for some time but need to make it a more meaningful exercise so will give these a try.❤

I love your videos and I’m always amazed at your thinking/analytic process.

Whatever you do, keep on doing it. You look gorgeous :) - Great content as always. Not that I was able to watch it in one sitting without looking up my phone or do something else in another tab, but you know the drill..

So clever, clear and precise. Thank you!

It's been awhile since I've checked out your content but damn your cadence has gotten so much better! Kudos.

I so love your long videos because on one hand they are interesting and your present a deeper understanding about what is actually happening inside the human body, and also in a way it makes me pay attention just to your video. Cuz if I only listen to what you say while doing something, the amount of information I get from it, is very small. Hope you the best :D

Thank you for your videos, genuinely. You verbalize most of my major issues and explain them perfectly. I am also trying to get through medical school but i'm hitting roadblocks and your videos have helped me become more confident and focused. You will be an incredible doctor if you follow that path, I hope I can become as passionate and descriptive as you are

Recent years I've been struggling with loss of focus and symptoms similar to ADHD I'm not diagnosed BUT I've never had problems when I was younger this problem started when I was in high school after some family problems I noticed I'm getting worse especially when I stay on my phone some people tell me ADHD in women is different but I've NEVER had problems before I was top student studied and did my homework without struggle I wasn't hyperactive and my parents say I'm the easiest child growing up I just feel that internet and social media ...broke my brain in a way. I will try to gain my focus again with these journaling techniques thank you for this video!@

Wow Liz!! This video is so informative such an important issue. I’ll definitely be trying some techniques. Thank you 🙏🏼 😊

I have to watch it again to really take in everything but I can already tell this video is going to help me as much as the one about soft discipline, thank you very much for your work! And the production quality, wow! 😮 "Do not believe everything you think" that's my phone background now 👌

This is one of the best videos I've ever watched. For any project I've worked on, I've always tried to create a character with a story behind it. Who knew that the technical term was "Dialogue with works" lol Great video!

I am so impressed by how you’ve changed! That you were able to speak of your emotions and “reliving” them in moment, that you’ve allowed yourself those beautiful “imperfections” of speech! Thank you for inspirational example)

This is great information. I loved that second exercise you demo started. Similar to teal swan’s parts work.

Awesome video editing and content.❤

It feels as though I have been personally analyzed and precisely described. While I know that these are general patterns of human psychology, they feel so personal firstly because they describe me accurately, and also because these are things that we do and feel but that we do not typically share or see in others. Too many of us are silently struggling to apply ourselves. It makes me imagine how much more I could achieve with better attention management, and how much more our society could achieve with the same skills. Your videos are always excellent, but I will be saving this one in particular to a very short playlist of videos that I occasionally revisit during moments of personal reflection. I would also like to express my appreciation for the included timestamps. Even just seeing the names of the chapters helps to internalize the concepts and recall them more easily. Thank you.

Thank you very much for this analysis. As usual you are talented and interesting. I will watch this video again and again until I manage to get the message and apply it to my life.

Thank you for explaining this in such a unique way that helps me view my habits in a manageable way

Dialogue with works is a fascinating experiment. There's a lot to unpack with that!

You have a very helpful channel. About to start my medical journey soon.

Wow! I need to rewatch this quite a few times! (I found your you tube channel again after having lost it due to losing my you tube channel access due to forgetting my password, and consuming so much other you tube content that I forgot about your channel. ;) I'm glad you're still creating videos and you totally deserve to be at almost 1 million subscribers.) As I am an internet addict, especially consuming videos to the point of debilitation/ utter neglect of performing essential tasks and projects in daily life, and long term projects, as you describe. I have no ability to sustain effort and organise myself effectively! I already do a little journaling, which is a start.

Watching your progress journey is really inspiring 👍👍👍

This was a super helpful video, thank you for sharing these insights with us. I feel the sincerity you put in this video. 💖

those biceps 🔥 great going elizabeth 👏👏

i love this channel; and this video is my favorite yet!!!! thank you so much for these tools for life. everything you are saying is relatable to me

Congratz on the great success of your channel.

Amazing content, as always!

I am loving your video as always. I did have a small amount of feedback from my experience of watching, the light blue text of your graphics, though aesthetically very cool, can be a little hard to make out. I'm sure you fiddled with this a bunch, so I'm probably just adding to you own considerations. In any case, sincerely thank you as always for the wonderful work you do. This was a wonderful video for my ZettleKasten practice, and I may need to refer to this for a video I am working on myself soon :)

Thank you, I feel like this is something I can actually do to get to understand the roots of my struggles and find the intrinsic motivation to move forward with my goals. Very well explained💕 Wishing you a lovely day, you’ve earned a subscriber 🥰✨💖

Big thanks on the unique videos and thoughts on the matter. The thing that I struggle with is actually not taking the breaks from journaling when I sit down to write on what is happening in my life. Like sometimes it is 5 minutes of writing, 3 minutes of looking aroud, etc. I guess it is just when I should start writing endlessly "my mind starts to wander" thousands time?

This is amazing. I am wanting to work on a book helping people with this exact thing. My brain has been hijacked by short form content the last four years. I also had some unexpected "success" posting on other platforms, which makes it even more addicting. Going viral for years is not what I thought it would be. It has actually burned me out and overwhelmed me to the point that I struggle to even make videos anymore. The addiction to this little screen and the views I was getting started to warp my world and I have to pull myself out of it. It's actually one of the strangest things I have ever experienced. I never sat and scrolled for hours before short form content and the pandemic- I would listen to long form KZfaq videos and podcasts and go on walks and I felt so much better than I do now...and even back then I was deeply worried about the time I spent online and on KZfaq. I never fought with people online- I was never reading comments about myself... I never spent hours mindlessly being fed short videos....and I must go back to that. I was so much happier it's not even funny. Thank you for this must needed video.

Brilliant content. Phenomenal video! 🙌🙌

Hey Elizabeth, I have been watching your channel since 2023 and I love your content. It's very niche, creative, and engaging. This video feels like I'm watching a movie and I was completely immersed. The classical music was a nice touch and I love the digital text and images on screen it looks so cool and techy. And as a side note - please forgive me if this is weird for you - you look different like you seem clearer like you're transparent and iridescent mentally and it's showing up on camera.

The self help content these days has been phenomenol . Thank you so much !!❤

Congratulations, Dr. Filips.

Thank you Elli 🙌🙏.

I so understand. Im listening to this with Spotify on in the background and also have the TV news on ...

Elizabeth you are absolutely wonderful. What a unique and fascinating mind you have, and you are so generous with how you share it. God bless you xx

Sis, you are my fav❤️ Who is honest to her audience… i admire you a lot.. From 🇧🇩

Whole video was very good.!!👍

Someone else may have already put this in a comment, but the five hindrances @23:40 are likely drawn from Buddhism. When the Five Hindrances were taught to me, they were Unskillful Doubt, Agitation, Sloth, Sense Desire, and Anger.

Honestly I don't know any other youtube channel where the videos have that much quality and value. Your content is outstanding! Thank you so much for all your hard work❤️ Edit: I noticed a lot of criticism in the comments regarding your thumbnails. Just wanted to say I love them! I think they're very unique and somehow (I don't know how else to put it) very "Elizabeth". I think it's very nice that you don't make thumbnails like everyone else.

Elizabeth, your explanation of the dialogue with works was brilliant. You conveyed it concisely, made its value obvious, and made doing it easy. It wasn’t crazy at all.

Dialogue With Works is so interesting omg I feel like it’ll work so well with me, thanks as always for the super original ideas

Before I watch the rest of video i wanted to mention you look amazing 😍 also i guess the gym had great effects you look absolutely gorgeous now ❤️ I mean you were but now it is so much better Love you✨

Thank you for this ❤

Thank you Elizabeth 🙂

it isn’t often that i find a youtube video and feel like i genuinely want to take notes on it, but i did with this. your video was amazing, as are all of them. your videos feel like a corner of youtube that is pretty much the antithesis of what we’ve been conditioned to expect online, when i watch your videos it’s like i genuinely feel like i’m getting greater value out of them, rather than just an escape. i’m saying this partly bc you mentioned guilt as one of those blockers for your youtube career, im not sure whether you know this to the extent that we do but you are changing ppl’s lives for the better and i’m forever grateful for your work 🫶🩷🩵

Priceless 🙏👏❤️video, especially on “journaling not about the facts..,” more importantly we can do about it.

I loved your crazy idea of the Dialogue with works 😁. I am going to try it out and I believe it will work for me! At least, for now, the thought that this might work is pleasant to me 😊 Thank you for your videos, you've already helped through older videos, and please keep on sharing the "crazy" ideas as you call them, because there are some crazy people out there who get you 😂and who need that 🤗

I really like your artistic style, Elizabeth!!! 🤩

Elizabeth Filips is purely an 11/10, excellent information and me too! If the videos went faster than 2x I'd be all over that, but then I realized like wow, I'm taking in soo much information all day long and doing soo much that ahhhh anxiety!! I've gone back to 1x and make a point to watch content like this that I choose to watch, thanks youtube for the suggestions but I know what I want to watch! There is a point of too much and I bet most of us have reached it! I go sailing and skiing where I'm 100% focused on just those, it's like an attention reset. I think also our brains need rest in order to build on the things we learn, especially skills like an instrument, I thought practice everyday for at least an hour but hopefully 4 hours, then I experimented and I progressed more by practicing less often, I can suddenly play that really hard passage I struggled with practicing hard everyday, that rest period is essential to mastering a skill, it might not make a difference when you're a beginner but after 20 years of a skill, to get better is harder so you need genuine brain rest.

The fact that the black line in the background concurs the line of the intro's chapter, drives my perfectionism(ania) crazy! P. S. Great video btw!

awesome video Elizabeth

Loved your video and the exercises you put forth. I noticed that juggeling all the tasks I needed to take care of in my head indepent of when they shoulb be done and stressing out about them every waking minute has been a hellscape that could easily be outsourced by some sort of to do list or the scream onto the page exercise you described. There is however a part of the video I missed which you be neurodivergence and adhd. I know that this would most definetly be a whole video on its own but it is undeniably linked with attention and I would be very interested to hear from you which impact this has especially with regards to the neurotransmitters involed. I will try the dialoge with work excercise and will share my results because I have clearly noticed a pattern of self sabotage regarding my work and I feel that that might lead to some insides into why I do this to myself Again thanks for the great video ❤

Fascinating Captain!

Thank you Elizabeth

Love your videos!!!

I think I am in Love. Thank you Elizabeth ❤

This was so informative ✨✨👏👏

I always love your videos, they're honest bad always original

This video is brilliant!

Dialogue with works is from Ira Progoff's Intensive Journal Method. Really powerful process. He wrote At a Journal Workshop in 1975 plus several more. I just found your channel -- I'm hooked. Feel you're describing me! Thank you!

I really appreciate your talent of abstracting logical ideas and philosophies that you have learned over the years. I have notice that you tend to find creative ways to tackle complex problems. The 'Dialogue with works' method of obtaining clarity and problem solving reminds me of a few different things that seem to have correlations: For one, when dealing with personal problems and challenges it's often hard to see the forest through the woods. For some reason it tends to be easier to offer insight and wisdom to friends and family that face challenges versus dealing with our own problems. So, in consideration of those factors, it can be very effective to reframe a personal problem and pretend another person has the same problem. Then, you posit, how would you treat this person and what would you tell them. Essentially, you're attaching a complex problem to a person that is not yourself. Furthermore, this method of abstracting an idea or challenge as a person reminded me of another philosophy. In Marie Kondo's book, it explored what she called the Japanese art of decluttering. She at one point imparts how the Japanese cultivates a respectful relationship with material items. Generally, with this idea, you would use an item to its fullest value, respect it while you have it, and essentially impart appreciation for the item and those who spent the time making it. Therefore, discarding an item would be a big deal, where you would express to it gratitude (even in your mind), as you would another person that has helped you and been part of your life. She adds to this philosophy to help people manage hoarding tendencies, big or small. In this way you can create a path to closure, respect and responsibility when you donate or discard something. People who have chronic hoarding problems already internalize shame and disappointment when they catch wind of the money, potential and time they have wasted when it comes to the material. And so, abstracting the material as an entity or partner that is deserving of respect, can be a strategy to facilitate releasing the item back into the world and away from its "prison,' where it can be properly utilized or appreciated. This externalizes the problem and, again, makes it easier to find a way to learn and move passed it. PS: The edits and pacing of your videos are phenomenal!

How does this only have 63k views? Seriously one of the best youtube videos i've ever watched.

Programming helps my focus. Tackling a difficult problem draws me in and makes the distractions fade.