#137: Dr. Caroline Leaf - Cleaning Up Our Mental Mess

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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I am so excited to have Dr. Caroline Leaf back on the podcast! Dr. Caroline Leaf is a neuroscientist specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s, she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input. This week we chat about her new book, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking. ~ Discover: What is the main differentiator between mind and brain? Mind is the generator, brain/body is the responder The mind is 99% of who we are You can learn to control your mind, you are never stuck How do we deconstruct toxic thinking Awareness is the first step in healing How to handle acute traumas faster Triggers will always be there, it's about how you react to it What is neuro-cycling and brain building? How to be the observer of self How to perform a mental "autopsy" and change your life Who doesn’t want to learn how to do that?! Be sure to pick up a copy of her new book and find out more about Dr. Leaf online at www.drleaf.com or on Instagram. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mark Groves podcast. I'm always really excited about our ability to change,
0:16.4	like our ability to transform, to take patterns and behaviors that have been holding us hostage
0:22.1	and changing them finally whatever it takes to get us there to actually go through that
0:27.7	transformation to initiate it and i think it's tony robbins who says that people change for
0:33.5	two reasons one that they learn so much they have to, and two, that they experience so much
0:39.1	pain that they have to. And maybe the argument about learning so much that they have to
0:44.6	is that there's too much dissonance with available knowledge that's just been learned. And I really do
0:49.9	believe that, that once you have too much knowledge that you're not living, the weight of
0:55.2	knowing that there's a better behavior available to you, a better choice, one that's going to
1:01.1	lighten the load, you know, so to speak. And I think that that is under the premise that for
1:07.0	humans, we wait till this moment of have to. And you know. I talk about this a lot of like waiting until we
1:13.1	have to versus waiting until we choose to, which is really just things are uncomfortable or I don't
1:18.1	like the way I've been, boom, change. And I think to get there, we have to have first sort of hit
1:24.5	the end of the road or hit the wall or the rock bottom. But then we realize
1:29.3	that there's so many minute bottoms far before the real bottoming out. And the ability to change
1:35.1	our brains, change the way we think, learn how to relate to feelings, learn how to relate to other
1:41.3	people. These are just such important aspects of awareness and knowledge
1:48.0	and things that we need to develop a deeper understanding about. Because when you realize that you
1:53.4	can do it, then it's possible. Then we don't feel imprisoned by a behavior or a pattern. You know,
1:58.5	the truth is, is that you can change anything. You can change any
2:02.1	behavior. You can learn any skill set. You know, when someone says I'm a bad communicator,
2:07.2	one, I always say to them that's a convenient sentence because it means your identity is,
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