Daniel Erichsen > Quotes

“as anxiety or sadness are identified as threats, in the way described above, they become more and more dominant parts of your life as you try to escape them. The same applies to pain and fatigue.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“But simply by understanding how it works you can now easily deploy kindness (thank you brain for having my back) and detachment (I get what you’re saying but I think sticking to the program is best for me) when these thoughts pop up.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“Not judging yourself even when you do things that you think probably aren’t in your best interest.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“Your brain does not want to leave you on a hill as wolf fodder.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“Desire causes Trouble and Trouble causes Desire in”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“Teaching the brain to no longer think of human experiences such as being awake, uncomfortable emotions or unpleasant sensations as threats leads to a place where none of them bother you. And that’s what all the teaching in Natto sets out to do.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“although you are special and unique, your troubles aren’t.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“Just gently remind yourself that when you think of your insomnia as strange or unusual, different from that of others, it has more power over you. It appears more scary and you may think that what has worked for others (education and habit change) won’t work for you.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“A type one error is a false alarm. It is believing that there is a problem (or correlation when used in the world of statistics) when there isn’t one.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“A type two error is not believing that there is a problem when there in fact is one. The villagers committed a type two error when they didn’t believe the boy who cried wolf that third time. And this, the type two error is something your brain is very afraid of committing.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?

“When emotions such as anxiety or sadness are identified as threats, in the way described above, they become more and more dominant parts of your life as you try to escape them. The same applies to pain and fatigue.”
― Daniel Erichsen, This is Natto: Are you ready for the journey within?