No.1 Brain Scientist: Your Brain Is Lying To You! Here's How I Discovered The Truth!

You've bought a present for me in this box and I feel nervous and excited. So this is the human brain with a spinal cord. Such a masterpiece. But what people don't know is that we have four different structured parts of our brain that automatically shape how we think, feel, and behave. But what if it's not unconscious? What if we could pick and choose on how we want to be in any moment on purpose? Like we can manifest our own. mental health. And by the end of this conversation today you're gonna teach me how to do that. Absolutely. You're gonna so get it. Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor has transformed how we understand the brain through her research and own traumatic experience. She's teaching the world how to unlock every part of their brain to regain control of their thoughts, emotions,

And behavior. We have a problem. We are skewed as a society to the two parts of the left brain, which focuses on me, the individual. How do I fit myself into a society? And trauma is living in there, as is cravings and addiction. And we need this. It protects us. But we get in trouble when this is the only portion of our brain that we value because look at the world. we currently live in. So is there a strategy for making sure that you don't act upon it. Well so many people are trying to get rid of their emotional reactivity. But the way to heal it is not to get rid of it. I mean we're wired for this! Why do I want to just put myself in a little box and say I don't wanna have pain, I don't wanna be mad, I wanna be a robot, I don't wanna be a robot, I wanna be a whole human with a whole brain. Like this is life! And it lasts this long and then it's gone. And it took me losing the left side of my brain for eight years to realize just how how precious this thing is. So how do I control and protect my brain at all costs? Well there's a lot. So you ready? Bom on some hot stuff!

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