285: How to manage negative thoughts | Neuroscientist Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.: “We spend between half to three quarters of our day in our minds time traveling between the past, present, and future.” Leaf, a cognitive neuroscientist and communication pathologist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to increase your mental fitness, plus: - How to measure your personal formula for happiness - Why millennials are more prone to anxiety - Why it doesn't actually take three weeks to form a habit - How to tap into your mind's optimism bias - Why you're never really living in the present moment Referenced in the episode: -Leaf's book, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess. -mbg Podcast episode #237, with Leaf. -Leaf's clinical trial on mind management with millennials. -mbg article on Leaf's 5-step mind management process. Don't forget to use the code HEMP25 for 25% off your first month subscription of mbg's hemp multi+. Our formula combines European Union Certified Organic hemp oil with vitamin D and other potent botanicals to help support a sense of calm and wellbeing—without getting you high.* To learn more about the supplement Jason swears by to wind down, visit mindbodygreen.com/hemp25. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or taking medications, consult with your doctor before starting a supplement routine. It is always optimal to consult with a health care provider when considering what supplements are right for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Caroline Leif is a communication pathologist and cognitive
0:51.9	neuroscientist whose passion is to help people see the power of the mind to change your brain
0:56.5	and find their purpose in life. Her new must read book is titled Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
1:02.4	and her message of hope and optimism with regards to how we manage our mind is needed more than
1:07.9	ever given the mental health crisis we're facing. It's an honor to have her back on the show.
1:13.4	Caroline, welcome back. So great to see you and congrats on a must read,
1:20.4	a very important book for 2021. Cleaning up your mental mess. Congratulations.
1:26.8	Thank you, Jason. It's so good to be back with you and we definitely do need to clean up our
1:31.2	mental mess. Yeah, we do. So let's start there. Pre-pandemic, we had a mental mess and
1:38.2	I think we'd all agree. It's a lot worse and so the big question, how do we begin to clean up
1:45.6	the mental mess? We're in a serious mental health epidemic and it's sad, it's overwhelming yet
1:51.6	we have to deal with it. We need to come out of it. Absolutely. Well, that's a great place to start
1:56.8	and when I wrote this book, Jason, it was actually prior to COVID. COVID hadn't even hit the
2:01.2	scene yet. I was doing my last lot of research trials and sort of the data analyses and
2:06.2	writing up the documents and then COVID hit so but just prior to COVID hitting, we were really
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