Hi, welcome back to my podcast. I'm Havala Cunnington. I'm your host and we are jumping into a brand

new series for the beginning of the year. It's called Intentional Living. Now, this podcast has some

serious core values. Some of those core values are we want it to be practical. We want it to be

concise. We want it to be actionable. So all those things are

what you're going to get here. And the goal is to uncomplicate, seemingly complicated topics,

whether it be spiritual or just lifestyle things. And so I'm really glad you're here.

Last week we talked all about moving in our brains from the automatic brain to more of the

deliberate brain and understanding the difference and how they both have a part that they play.

And when we get it right, we function better.

Today, we're going to talk about how to keep our brain in a discovery mode.

And it's very, very important. This was revolutionary for me.

I'm taking this out of a book, one of my favorite books called How to Have a Good Day by

Carolyn Webb. Most of the intellectual property of what you're going to hear is from her,

and she's just phenomenal. You can see, I've really enjoyed this book. But this was really important.

So the second thing we want to talk about is the discovery and defend access.

So the idea that you kind of have to keep your brain in one of those, and one of them is more

productive, and one of them is limited.

So we need to understand that when our brain is at its healthiest,

it stays in discovery mode. But when it is attacked or it feels threatened, it goes into

defend mode. And when we defend ourselves, it basically means that we're looking for threats.

Now, I understand that we live in a world where we don't

have to go hunt for our food. We don't have to make sure that our children are safe from like

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