How to Manage Your Mind When The World is Falling Apart

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Braintrauma, Healthtips, Sleep, Obesity, Anxiety, Braininjury, Depression, Ptsd, Mentalhealth, Mood, Brainhealth, Health & Fitness, Energy, Disease, Addiction, Mental Health, Healthadvice, Adhd, Memory, Focus

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When chaos hits the world, how do you protect your inner peace? In this episode, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen share real-life tools to manage your mind during turbulent times. From global conflict to personal crises, they reveal how to avoid being hijacked by the 24-hour news cycle, reduce worry and panic, and build true mental resilience. You’ll hear how Tana’s mindset shifted after facing one of her biggest fears—and why prepping for disease, dementia, and depression might be more important than prepping for doomsday. This is your guide to staying grounded when everything feels like it’s spinning out of control.

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0:00.0	People who start the day with the news are 27% less happy.
0:05.0	When the world seems like it's in turmoil, how do you manage your mind?
0:13.0	Today on Change Your Brain, Dr. Amen and Tanna discussed three strategies on managing your mind when the world seems to be in chaos. So number one in dealing with your mind is what do you want? On one piece of paper, write down
0:26.6	what do you want? Relationships, work, money, physical, emotional, spiritual help. And then
0:32.6	you go, does it fit? The second thing, notice what you like way more than what you don't.
0:39.6	We publish the study on negativity bias, being negative bad for your brain.
0:46.4	So that's why you have to turn off the news.
0:48.8	And then not believing every stupid thing you think.
0:52.5	When you're listening to this, write down a strategy because it's easy to go, oh, don't
0:56.4	let this stress be your excuse, but you've got to have a plan.
0:59.8	The ultimate question is this.
1:04.8	Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.
1:10.2	Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain
1:13.4	for the better every day. Autism. What is? How do you know if you have autism is not one thing?
1:22.9	It's many different things. There's so much to know about autism. It's not hard to understand.
1:30.3	Hi, this is Dr. Daniel Eamon. I'm so excited to tell you about our new course,
1:36.3	Healing Autism, a New Way Forward, that I did with my friend and really autism expert, Dr. Jerry Cartsena.
1:47.0	It's a completely new look at autism.
1:51.0	This course is for parents of children or adults who have autism,
1:57.0	but it's also for professionals.
2:00.0	We hope you'll join us with healing autism,
2:04.6	a new way forward.
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