Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Good Ruler Strategies: Prevent social media monopolies. Teach people how to deal with traumas past and present. Minimize negativity. Encourage meditation. Make psychotherapy easy to enroll in especially if they have a history of trauma. Encourage the population to connect with parks and nature. Evil Ruler Strategies: […]
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Exercise: If you or someone you know does bad things consider that an unhealthy brain my be the source of the problem. Oh I’ve considered it. The person I’m thinking about is not violent. That’s a plus. They are just a murderer of relationships. I’ve even bought
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Damage to the PFC can cause anger issues, poor planning, and impulse control. In this chapter a man with damage to his PFC murdered his neighbor of a dispute over some trees. Exercise: Read the news and see if you detect evil behavior in an event. Consider
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog The idea of this chapter is that an evil ruler would promote unhealthy activities while a good ruler would promote healthy ones. The evil ruler would target the biological sphere of mental illness by encouraging behaviors to keep us tired and sick. Examples the evil ruler might
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog In one word distractions. The chapter reviews a Canadian study where groups gambling men were shown pictures of women while playing cards. One group was shown attractive woman and the other less attractive woman. The men shown the attractive women were less lost more money than the
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Butterflies are a symbol of transformation. Be following the lessons of brain health people transform both mentally and physically. Exercise: Spend some time reflecting on these spiritual questions. WOW! These are some pretty heavy questions. Lets see what I’ve got. What is the meaning of my life?
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog In this analogy the elephant and the rider represent two different brain systems. The elephant is the emotional limbic system and the rider is the thoughtful PFC. The rider can tame and control the elephant. If the elephant gets spooked or is not well trained the rider
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog People crave attention…even if it is negative attention. Particularly when there is an uneven power dynamic to often we give attention in the form of disciple instead of praise. Dr. Amen collects penguins as a reminder of the epiphany he had when talking to a penguin trainer.
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog As discussed in the last few chapters a damaged PFC (pre-frontal cortex) can lead to poor decision making skills. In this chapter Dr. Amen was able to help a serial cheater with PFC issues hold his marriage together. He did this by getting his patient Jose to
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog ANT stands for automatic negative thought. Dr. Amen uses the tiny 6 legged creatures as a symbol for automatic negative thoughts. ANTs can be quite toxic and lead to panic attacks and a just a generally pissy attitude. He uses the anteater animal to symbolize that we
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