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 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 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 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 The hippocampus is the area of the brain that looks like a seahorse and is responsible for storing memories. It makes 700 new hippocampal stem cells everyday aka by Dr. Amen as baby seahorses. Our behaviors as well as what we eat and ingest either keeps these
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog With consistency new practices begin to become habits. People with unhealthy habits may criticize your attempts to get better but the more you notice all the brain dysfunctions around you your conviction will grow. Your brain healthy routine will become second nature and mistakes rare. Exercise: Answer
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Some people can make big lifestyle changes at the drop of a hat. Others (like me) do better with an incremental approach. This is commonly referred to as the 1% better mentality. It is discussed in length in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Nancy started
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog New love is like cocaine and people can actually get addicted to it. This can actually lead to breakups because of the lure of the newness of new love. Lasting love is life a drug to but a less addictive one. It brings on calm hippieness vs
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