The ability to make the good decisions, that apparatus, the wiring of the brain has been sabotaged.

Our brains tend to get locked into acting impulsively using an area of the

brain called the amygdala. And there is so much about our modern world that is locking us into making poor decisions,

short-sighted decisions, based on impulsivity, whatever it is that we know isn't necessarily in our best interest, but we do it because

we don't have the ability many times to access the other part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, that allows us to basically

let the adult come back into the room and help us with our decision making that would say,

you know as a matter of fact, you need to eat less refined carbohydrates and

guess what maybe getting out for a 15 minute walk would be a good thing for us

to do. That's Dr. David Perlmutter, and this is episode 367 of Wellness Force Radio.

Well, on this Force Radio.

We discover the physical and emotional intelligence to move life well.

You can have the same brain states as someone who's done an hour of

meditation every day for 40 years. There's a lot of losses that we go through so

the ability to be able to cope with those losses is very important to build

skill in it because loss will happen.

You know you have to have spiritual courage to really grow spiritually because if you

really want to take guidance from your soul you have to be ready to realize that many of the things

that you're asking for guidance on your ego has some kind of an addiction to or an investment

in.

What's up everyone? It's Josh. You made it to Wellness Force and today we're talking about two distinct subjects

One of them is the mind the other one is the emotional body. I mean, we all want to be healthier.

We all want to be more productive,

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