221: How to Train Your Thoughts & Tame the Hidden Dragons with Dr. Daniel Amen

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Education, Brain, Memory, Jimkwik, Productivity, Business, Kwikbrain

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Can you train your thoughts for a positive mind?

Your brain is always eavesdropping on your self-talk. And “now more than ever,” according to today’s incredible guest, Dr. Daniel Amen, “we need a manual for our mind.”

The incidents of depression have increased more than 3 times since the start of the pandemic, while self-harming behaviors among teenagers have quadrupled.

Dr. Amen is here to discuss the mental health crisis and shed some light on the power of your thoughts. He is a 12-time New York Times bestselling author, psychiatrist, neuroscientist, brain imaging expert, and the founder of Amen Clinics.

In this episode, Daniel teaches us that thoughts come from chemical reactions, the food you eat, memories you focus on, and what happened to your ancestors written in your genetic code.

Listen as he shares the power of training your thoughts with “positivity bias training” and discusses his phenomenal new book, Your Brain is Always Listening: Tame the Hidden Dragons that Control Your Happiness, Habits, and Hang-Ups.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jim Quick and I have a quick update for you. I'm proud to announce my very first book, Limitless.
0:07.0	Upgrade your brain, learn anything faster, and unlock your exceptional life.
0:13.0	This book is not only based on the latest neuroscience, it is field tested for over 20 years of working with some of the most amazing minds on our planet.
0:25.0	Just go to Limitlessbook.com and enjoy this book.
0:29.0	Welcome to Quick Brain, bite-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. I'm your coach Jim Quick.
0:37.0	Free your knowledge. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brains capacity.
0:44.0	I wasn't high and wasn't wired, just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. I know Kung Fu.
0:51.0	Show me.
0:55.0	Welcome back, Quick Brain. Your question for today, it's a big one.
1:00.0	How do you shut down self-defeating thoughts? Those thoughts that are ruminating.
1:07.0	That's how you can to do this. You're not enough.
1:11.0	We always talk about your mind as always, eavesdropping on your self-talk.
1:15.0	We quote Dr. Daniel Aiman's work about killing those ants, automatic negative thoughts.
1:22.0	We want to address this topic today. We brought you the man, the myth, the legend.
1:29.0	Number one, York Times best-selling author, psychiatrist, the world renowned, the brain expert.
1:36.0	He's done so many brain scans on individuals, including my own.
1:40.0	Dr. Daniel Aiman, thank you. Dr. Aiman for being back on our show.
1:45.0	What a joy to be with you. As always, my friend. Yes, yes. So we've been on each other's podcast numerous times.
1:52.0	We've been on our stages for a good goodness. It's been 10 years.
1:57.0	Now it's like the blink of an eye lately. Almost a lifetime ago.
2:02.0	No, you know, with everything that's been going on this past 12 months plus, you know, we live in a very turbulent times.
2:10.0	And I want to congratulate you on a very timely book. This, this book that we're trying to talk about today is that your brain is always listening.
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