to get to the other side where those thoughts are a bit nicer, we can't push them away.

Because they're going to come at us in different shapes and forms late at night,

when you're driving, when you're not, you know, expecting it when someone cuts you off in traffic.

It all then builds up.

Welcome back. We are in part two of our two-part series with the brilliant Nicole Vignola.

She's a neuroscientist, author, and speaker who specializes in rewiring the brain to just make life better. Seriously, decision making, resilience, less stress, living with more

peace, and making the long-lasting changes that we want to make in life. We're talking about how to

break free from procrastination, how to de-stress, what will really help us throughout the day,

how do we break our bad habits?

Things that once we understand this, once we know how our brain needs us to care for it

and what is going on in our brains can completely change our lives.

Again, this is part two of two, so we're going to jump in right in the middle.

And now without further ado, here's part two with Nicole.

Basically, we want to think about external versus internal focus and inputs.

Can you break that down a little bit more?

Yeah, so one of the biggest things that I talk about, and I'm talking about this in my next

book as well, yes, I'm writing another one. Very exciting. Yeah, thank you. Is that I don't think we

spend enough time in our own thoughts with ourselves. And so what happens is at nighttime, those thoughts all come flooding in just before

bed. And what's happening in the brain on a neuroscientific level is that we've got the default

mode network and we've got the central executive network. So those two networks are your two most

prominent networks in the brain and they work in tandem.

What that means is that the central executive network is responsible for external thinking,

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