Do you want to lighten the load of overthinking and free your emotions? To rewire your impulses and expand your tolerance for what’s hard so that living and creating come more easily? Here’s how.

Do you ever feel like your worst enemy is your own mind?

Maybe there are times when you want to take action but fear, anxiety, and negative patterns of thinking hold you back. You try to reason your way out of the rut—you’re smart, after all!—but you stay stuck.

What if your mind isn’t the solution here?

What if, instead of trying to think your way out of negative thoughts and painful emotions, you could find a new way to deal with them—and in the process, discover how to do your best work and live a damn fun life? That’s the joyful path that Josh Pais lays out for you in Lose Your Mind.

As an actor, teacher, and coach, Josh has decades of experience in opening people’s creative channels. His Committed Impulse program, which forms the basis of this book, is designed to help you step into your own spotlight—whether that means being a brilliant actor, an engaging speaker, an inspiring leader, or whatever your work and your life require.

You’ll learn:

• That feelings aren’t intrinsically “good” or “bad,” just as there aren’t “good” or “bad” trees in the forest
• How you can stay present with difficult emotions rather than trying to suppress or dispel them
• Practical tools grounded in somatic experience—the “wisdom of the body,” right down to the atomic level—that are easy to understand and use
• How to convert the feelings you’ve thought of as intolerable into energy that powers your best possible life

This work isn’t just for actors. In one way or another, everyone has an audience in their life. The question is: How will you step into your spotlight?