How To End 60,000 Negative Thoughts a Day

Inside: a 5-minute exercise to expose your inner critic

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What you'll learn in this video:
Your stress isn't coming from your to-do list – it's coming from the 60,000 critical thoughts attacking you every day
Instant stress relief techniques (humming, sensation, breath) that work in under 60 seconds
Why downregulation can become dangerous avoidance
A 5-minute exercise to expose your internal critic
How to recognize the critical voice isn't actually yours
Why you have 50-60,000 thoughts per day (and most are repetitive attacks)
The "coming to your senses" technique you can use anywhere
A take-home practice to trace where your self-criticism really comes from

Joe Hudson (coach to leaders at Apple, Google, SpaceX, OpenAI) guides you through immediate techniques to calm your nervous system and how to dismantle the critical voice that keeps bringing stress back.

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📖 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction - Immediate Stress Reduction
00:19 Part 1 - Humming Exercise
00:55 Simple Stress Reduction Techniques (Texture, Feet, Silence)
01:45 Understanding Nervous System Downregulation
02:32 Three Categories of Stress Reduction
02:36 Breathing Techniques Overview
03:14 Guided Exercise: Coming to Your Senses
05:27 Making Stress Reduction a Habit
05:58 The Danger of Avoidance
07:14 Guided Exercise 2: Thought Awareness Exercise
08:41 The Internal Critic - Your Biggest Stressor
10:32 Understanding the Critical Voice Isn't Yours
11:37 Different Ways to Respond to Your Inner Critic
12:09 Take-Home Exercise - Tracking Your Critical Voice
13:02 Conclusion & Resources