#6: Being Unmindful?

Also, the future is now

Eli Kravitz

Jun 08, 2025

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In full transparency, I’ve noticed an interesting shift: While I no longer feel uber-anxious about hitting “send,” now, my challenge is maintaining consistent.

What keeps me going is the satisfaction of offering thoughtful, quality mental health content for readers like you.

Thanks for reading, as always. 💛

Popcorn time

Let’s journey together into an imaginary world:

You stretch and open your eyes as you wake up.

Immediately, the weather and your day’s reminders appear, beautifully displayed across your neural dashboard, and seamlessly integrated into your visual field.

You head to the kitchen for breakfast. As you sit down, you feel a jolt, and the familiar tension creeps in.

You remember [insert personally overwhelming thing here]. That big upcoming thing—completely hypothetical and undefined for the purposes of this story—starts to loom over you.

You blink twice. Your mind clears. Instantly, you feel calmer and more relaxed.

“Thank goodness for neural implants!” you say, accepting a steaming coffee from your humanoid robot

“Existential dread again, sir?” asks the butler.

Aaaand scene. 🎬

Fun, right? I’ve always thought I could be a movie script writer.

As terrifying as that futuristic world sounds, wouldn’t it be nice if we could just switch off those stressful TV channels in our brains? If we could magic away those mental whirlpools that pull us down?

It turns out… we actually can.

No implants required.

With practice, we can redirect our thoughts with less energy than it takes to click off the TV.

This skill is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

And it’s not just a clever idea. It’s evidence-based and rooted in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a treatment method developed to help people with managing overwhelming emotions. (#NerdFlex)

It goes something like this:

Step One: Be mindful.

Tune in during the good moments. Pay close attention when something feels meaningful, enjoyable, or worth remembering.

Save the feel-good vibes for later, like a deposit in an emotional piggy bank. (You can even put stickers on yours, if that’s your thing. Mine has glitter.)

Step Two: Be unmindful.

When your brain starts spinning into stressful, negative loops, you can learn to intentionally shift your focus away.

Spoiler: Many of our negative thoughts usually follow the same pattern. With time, we can learn to spot them, and stop them.

The takeaway:

Think of those negative thoughts like the first five seconds of an ad you can’t wait to skip, and enjoy the reruns of your favorite memories.

So, get out there and start building your mental streaming playlist.

Oh, and never trust the robot butler. It probably tells your smart fridge everything.

Till next time,

Eli

P.S.

It takes me hours each week to make these editions chock-full-of value and (hopefully) entertainment.

If each of you could think of just one person who might enjoy The Chill Report and share it with them, I’d be incredibly grateful. 💛