How to Rewire Your Brain for Positive Thinking with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Caroline Leaf, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist and expert on mental health, dives deep into the fascinating topic of the power of the mind to change the brain and find mental peace. She recounts her personal journey and how her passion for understanding the mind-brain connection, mental health, and memory formation led her to become one of the most accomplished cognitive neuroscientists of our time.

Dr. Leaf emphasizes that the brain is not a fixed organ, and that managing the mess in our minds is crucial for our mental health. She goes on to explain how our thoughts can affect our brain chemistry, and how we can use this knowledge to our advantage by training our minds to think positively. Dr. Leaf also discusses the importance of understanding the different types of memory and how they impact our mental health.

Some highlights we explore:

How our mind changes our brain
The importance of managing our mental mess
The 5-step Neurocycle process for healthy mind-management
The impact of unmanaged stress and toxic thoughts on children's mental health
Why social media curfews and bans won't protect your child from mental health issues
The need for a scientific approach to mental health interventions

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The big picture is that at our core, we actually very wise, we're very organized, we very
0:04.9	productive, we're very creative, we're brilliant.
0:07.7	And that's the core of who we are, which is in our mind and reflected in our biology of our
0:11.9	brain and our body.
0:13.6	But as a human, we are experimental.
0:17.0	We are like an experiment every moment of every day.
0:19.5	We don't know what's coming up in the next moment.
0:21.6	We can anticipate, we can guess, we can all those things because we use to certain things,
0:25.6	but we're not 100% sure about anything in the next moment. We are designed to be messy,
0:31.6	or structured, I should say to be messy. It's normal. It's part of how our brain and mind and body work. But we are designed or structured to manage the mess. So it's not a case, as you said, of if we have a mess. It's the level of mess that we're in.
0:47.6	Hello, hello, hello. And welcome to another episode of the show. That piece of wisdom was from Dr. Caroline Leif. If you're familiar with Dr. Leif's work,
0:57.2	you probably know her podcast called Cleaning Up the Mental Mess. She is a mental health expert,
1:05.6	highly sought after. Since the early 80s, she's researched the mind-brain connection,
1:10.4	the nature of mental health,
1:11.8	and the formation of memory. We're here today to talk about cleaning up our mental messes
1:18.2	and explore a little bit about her new book called How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess,
1:24.7	a guide to building resilience and managing mental health.
1:28.5	Now, notice that in both of these, you know, her previous book and this one, it's not if we have
1:35.4	a mental mess, right?
1:36.9	It's that we have a mental mess and how we ought to think about cleaning it up.
1:41.4	Just a couple of bullet points in today's episode. We talk about
1:45.4	unmanaged stress and how toxic it can be. We talk about the concept of a neuropsychle. That is five
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