402: Dr. Caroline Leaf on Eliminating Anxiety, Depression, and Intrusive Thoughts by Managing Your Mind
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/drcarolineleaf402
Dr. Caroline Leaf (IG: @drcarolineleaf) is a bestselling author, communication pathologist, and cognitive neuroscientist. Since the early 1980s she’s researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. Caroline was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input.
Her new book is Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Your mind can change your brain
- Cleaning up your mental mess
- Your mind is always with you
- Thinking, feeling, choosing
- The gravitational field of your mind
- Thoughts look like trees inside your brain
- Depression & anxiety are not mental illnesses
- The psychological side vs. quantum physics of the mind
- Behaviour change occurs in cycles of 63 days
- People are dying 8 to 25 younger from preventable lifestyle diseases
- Addiction is a response to try and deal with pain
- When toxic thoughts aren’t dealt with they increase inflammation in the body
- Acknowledge patterns in your life
- It’s ok to make a mess
- Understanding the differences between the wise mind and a messy mind
- Practice self regulation
- You have to go beyond mindfulness to awareness
- The brain mapping study
- The 5 steps of the neurocycle
- Start to gather awareness
- How to use neurocycling to break a smoking addiction
- Metacog is a way of writing
- Reconceptualize the toxic patterns
- Treating mental health with mind management and therapy
- Never be scared to ask for help, but also learn to help yourself
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Related links:
Dr. Caroline Leaf - Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess (book)
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Dr. Caroline Leaf - Switch On Your Brain (book)
Cleaning Up The Mental Mess Podcast with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Science of Thought - Ted Talk with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Listen to Dr. Jud Brewer previously on TUHP (episodes #374 and #397)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | 86 to 95% of people that have got severe addictions |
| 0:06.4 | get out of addiction through choice, |
| 0:08.1 | through synchon feeling and choosing. |
| 0:09.8 | But it starts with recognizing why I'm doing it. |
| 0:12.6 | It's how I'm showing up. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm showing up within addiction. |
| 0:15.2 | It's not that I have a disease. |
| 0:16.5 | It's a distraction. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a way of coping, no judgment, no condemnation, |
| 0:22.7 | acceptance, embrace it to process it and reconceptionize it. |
| 0:26.8 | So we really talk about no judgment, |
| 0:28.1 | no total acceptance, |
| 0:29.4 | which is the mind from this language. |
| 0:31.0 | We've got to also remember that you can't just stay there. |
| 0:34.1 | So I'm not saying accept to stay, |
| 0:35.4 | I'm saying accept to move forward. |
| 0:37.0 | That's why I talk about the concept of embracing, |
| 0:39.3 | which means bring it into your fold, |
| 0:41.0 | then you control it. |
| 0:42.3 | There's nothing worse than being uncontrolled. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast, |
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