Dr. Caroline Leaf: Neuroplasticity and How Your Thoughts Can Influence Your DNA
Align Podcast
Aaron Alexander
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What is a thought? Where are our thoughts located? What weight do our thoughts have?
In this episode of the Align Podcast, Dr. Caroline Leaf and I discuss what defines the concept of thoughts and how exactly they affect our body and our DNA. In fact, the human brain is capable to identify toxic and negative thoughts and treat them as foreign invaders, similar to how our bodies react to foreign invaders that attack our immune system.
Plus, Dr. Leaf shares with us a proven 5 step process that is designed to help us overcome trauma, depression, anxiety, and more.
Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. She has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. Dr. Leaf is also the bestselling author of Switch on Your Brain, Think Learn Succeed, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, and many more.
What we discuss:
02:02: What is a thought? Where are thoughts located? What weight do our thoughts have?
06:12: How much control do we have over our entire thought process?
08:01: Dr. Leaf’s path to engaging in the knowledge of the mind
14:4: How do we experience things through our mind?
18:29: An explanation to why we don’t have a negative bias
19:18: Why are our brains drawn to the negative?
23:16: What is consciousness and unconsciousness? How do they relate to each other?
36:55: Where does shame come from?
43:27: Breaking down the NeuroCycle
51:55: The advantage of multi-perspective
To learn more about Dr. Leaf:
Website: drleaf.com
Instagram: @drcarolineleaf
Podcast: Cleaning Up the Mental Mess
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the line podcast, my name is Aaron Alexander. |
| 0:04.3 | This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and |
| 0:08.3 | wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement. |
| 0:11.8 | Today's conversation was with a human being that I appreciate. body and |
| 0:15.0 | this conversation was with a human being that I appreciate greatly Dr. Carolyn Leaf and this conversation was all about |
| 0:19.0 | neuroplasticity how plastic or malleable our minds actually are. |
| 0:25.0 | Dr. Leaf is one of the pioneers in developing the conversation |
| 0:29.0 | around neuroplasticity and the mind-body connection. |
| 0:32.0 | She's in studying the nature of mental health in the formation. plasticity and the mind-body connection. |
| 0:32.6 | She's been studying the nature of mental health |
| 0:34.5 | and the formation of memory for the last 30 years |
| 0:36.9 | and she is an absolute boss. |
| 0:39.0 | This is one of my favorite conversations because I am just so darn interested in defining |
| 0:46.1 | what the hell the mind is in the first place. That's a big part of what this |
| 0:49.6 | conversation is about what is it, where is it, what it what it tastes like smell like feel like and how is it governing our lives |
| 0:58.8 | We get into the subconscious mind and the conscious mind and the conscious mind and the differentiation between the two and how to take |
| 1:04.5 | some semblance of control on navigating that wild ride that we refer to as the mind. |
| 1:12.1 | So really fun conversation. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm very grateful for Dr. Carolyn Leaf |
| 1:15.8 | to share her time. |
| 1:17.3 | She has a new book out referred to as cleaning up |
| 1:20.5 | your mental mess. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron Alexander, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Aaron Alexander and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.