Episode 486: Protecting Your Brain from Social Media, Improving Your Business Performance, and How to Overcome Negative Thoughts with Dr. Amen

The Mind Your Business Podcast

James Wedmore

Business, Entrepreneurship, Management

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Would you like to tame the hidden dragons that control your happiness, habits, and hang-ups? If so, today's episode will be of interest to you! My special guest is Dr. Amen, one of America's leading psychiatrists and brain health experts who has written over 40 books, including his latest work, Your Brain is Always Listening. In this episode, Dr. Amen reveals what we all need to do to manage our thoughts in an impeccable way, so that we can harness the true power of our brains!

I encourage you to get a copy of Dr. Amen's latest book at https://yourbrainisalwayslistening.com/, and let us both know what you think of it! Post a photo of yourself holding the book on your Instagram and tag us, @jameswedmore and @doc_amen.

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In this episode you'll hear:

The importance of brain health specifically for entrepreneurs [9:12]
What Dr. Amen says are the 11 big risk factors to prevent or treat to optimize your brain's performance
Helpful tips for protecting your brain from the effects of social media, and how he manages his own brain health daily to combat this
Why active listening is such a critical skill for parents to have to connect more effectively with their children
His concept of "ANTs", or "Automatic Negative Thoughts," and an exercise you can start doing to overcome yours
How positive thinking differs from accurate thinking
Affirmations you can use to tackle your "dragons"
The role our ancestry plays in the thoughts we have today
What role spirituality takes in the functioning of a healthy brain

For full show notes and links, visit: https://www.mindyourbusinesspodcast.com/blog/486

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Mind Your Business Podcast today. I'm speaking with New York Times best-selling author, Dr.
0:06.7	Aiman on how to hardwire your brain for more success. So stay tuned
0:18.8	Hi, I'm James Wedmore and with 13 years on loan
0:22.0	I've built my business to over nine million dollars in sales per year and this is the first
0:28.6	non-business business podcast that shows you how to apply the principles of
0:34.0	spirituality energy and mindset to create true and lasting success all from the
0:40.6	inside out. This is the Mind Your Business Podcast. What is up ladies and
0:49.6	gentlemen, James Wedmore here. Thank you so much for tuning into another
0:53.6	episode here on the Mind Your Business Podcast. I feel like this week we should
0:56.6	be calling it the Brain Your Business Podcast because that's exactly what we're
1:00.8	going to dive into today with my very special guest, Dr. Aiman. He has written
1:07.0	over 40 bucks. That is just insane to me and I have in my hand his newest book,
1:14.0	which is fan tabulous by the way, called your brain is always listening. You
1:18.4	can actually go to your brain is always listening.com and get your copy.
1:22.2	Grab your copy, take a picture with your copy, Kindle or the old school
1:27.1	physical version. I got a physical version of my hand here. It's nice to touch and
1:30.2	feel things every once in a while. Take a picture of it, tag us, post on Instagram.
1:34.5	I want to know that you got the book. It's a fan tabulous book, read it, cover to
1:38.3	cover, devoured it, love it. It's so simple and so powerful, so important. So we're
1:44.3	going to get into so much today. I just got off the interview with Dr. Aiman
1:48.8	and we dove deep into the conversation of the dragons, as he calls them, that affect
1:56.6	our life and there's a lot of them. And what was so fascinating, interesting as we
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