EFR 504: Your Mind is Not Your Brain and How to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking with Dr. Caroline Leaf, PhD

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Chase Chewning

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5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

“You can transition from just being aware of your chaotic and toxic thoughts to being empowered to catch these thoughts in their early stages, manage them. From there, you can improve your overall peace and wellbeing.”

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist who for almost 40 years has been doing research into the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory.

Dr. Leaf is the host of the podcast Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess and the author of the book Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking. We talk in-depth about the book in today’s conversation.

Her overall message? You are not your brain. Your mind, in fact, controls your neurophysiology. When you understand your mind, you can begin to drive change in your brain and in your body. It’s all under your control.

She says that, contrary to popular belief, emotional and even physiological symptoms that result from stress are not the result of an irreversibly “broken” brain. Rather, it’s a question of your paradigms or the narrative lens that you see the world through.

“Because our brain is neuroplastic and we make a million new cells every second, we have a lot of power to influence and change” the stories we tell ourselves.

Listen in and learn how you can become empowered to manage your “messy mind” so that you can then give the podium to the “wise mind”.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leaf. I'm a cognitive
0:02.8	neuroscientist and I researched the mind-brain connection
0:05.6	and have you in this field for 38 years
0:07.6	and I can tell you that your mind is not your brain,
0:10.0	you are not your brain, your mind actually controls your neurophysiology.
0:14.0	So when you understand your mind you can actually drive the changes in your
0:18.1	brain and your body it's under your control. You can be empowered to manage your mind
0:21.7	and this is what we're going to talk about in today's episode.
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