This Brain Surgeon Will Teach You How To REPROGRAM Your Mind (End Negative Thinking & Habits)

I used to work in an Alzheimer's Clinic when I was trying to get into medical school and once in a while these older folks they would have dementia parts of the brains would literally wither like the flesh would wither it's not just the thinking and the electricity and hidden painting abilities would come out and I'm not talking like they're gonna be at in a museum at some point but a dramatic change in their in the way they wrote in their ability to paint landscapes and those kind of things make me think there's a lot of untapped potential so those examples when I take you know when I take care of brain injured it's not all of sad cases they can be phenomenal in some ways and you learn that there's so much going on in the brain that we are not seeing on the daily level so I think there's a lot of potential we haven't we haven't tapped into that we could if we structured things better anything difficult where you have to think is good for your brain if you ask you saying bol how do I get stronger legs to run its intuitive but the flesh in our skulls it's meant to think and feel and that is the power of self growth and it's a Thinking Machines of thinking flesh that you actually have to use or to protect itself because it's an energy hog right it's three pounds the use of 20% if you're not using parts of it it'll program itself to let those parts of the garden with it so the diversity of thinking and the depth of thinking just one level past what you're used to is the way to keep the whole garden flourishing and it is a garden when there's chemicals there are things moving there different types of brain cells it's not just neurons so I would try to give that metaphor analogy if you will that it's a garden and you have to irrigate it and stimulate and tend to all the corners particularly the ones you're starting to neglect then the creative things happen you can just sit down have them happen you got to work and dream and go hard and on top of that something creative comparable so now we have the understanding that the brain is meant to think the brain is also meant to command your body to move and absolutely the minute you don't use your left hand the right parietal lobe of the motor strip says and I could have used much I'll shave down that I'll shave down that density of those brain cells a little bit so that's what movements in court and then the other thing is navigation when you see old people and they lose their way home well that is a particularly address also many things are global in the brain but navigation is in the temporal lobe and they have dementia in that area navigation also is a spatial awareness is a function of the brain and sometimes when we're on our phones too much we don't have that so my kids that some don't look down not religiously or adamantly but try to just remember our route I just looked up and see how see how far you can get I think those habits will help us as we get less young and those are practical things we can do during the day and as far as the the other element is brain training it doesn't have to be some weird game that's not intuitive I think brain training just means learning as a habit one step past where you're comfortable if you're reading and you know it your pains and it's an idle if it's too hard it's not even engaged I'm like I'm not gonna win this race I'm not gonna pick in a second gear so just just like video games just good enough to get to the next level right they don't hit you with the fifth level the tilt level upfront its level 1 to level 2 level 2 to level 3 that's what learning is so despite your knowledge and intellect it's just that level right beyond you that is brain training so you don't have to bind you just have to challenge yourself in thing brains a hybrid vehicle it grew it evolved through thousands and thousands and thousands of years of lots of food scarcity you didn't eat all the time and so it's got a backup mechanism called ketone so after 16 hours if you don't put blue goes in and the liver is done the releasing the glucose that's held onto through backage reserve then I'll start burning fat clip off those oxygens and hydrogen's and they'll make key tones out of it intermittent fasting can also help you lose weight I think that's why most people aren't interested in it but it's the way the brain prefers to get its fuel source and it's based on a diet lessons about dieting learn through controlling epilepsy and seizures and kids in areas where there's no medicine now intermittent fasting is back and forth glucose and then ketones glucose and then ketone but for kids if you just get them almost nearly all ketone as the source that goes up to the brain through an all fat diet their seizure you know so that's proof that food changes mind so this whole myth about you only use 20% of your brain no we use on a present brain and pictures show that but to get things done we might only use 15 because efficiency it's about ruts like dominoes falling in a certain path and the best way I can explain it is as you grow the brain the the way the electrical electricity flows the way the connections a prioritize is a bit like skiing down a mountain creating these electrical grooves of sort where if you see something you see a cliff and fear it goes down a certain path and every time you do that and you've reinforced it it actually becomes less expensive energy wise to follow and fall into that habit so these pathways these habits in our mind these rituals these things that are good for us we want to hold on to those but a lot of them have become deeply carved you know routes down the mountain and filling those in burying them and finding healthy ones is gonna be an energy expending process the effort will be harder in the beginning and then as you create a new route down the mountain you can condition yourself to have a more favorable and constructive responses that's the best way I can explain is why effort will lead to change and your most effort will be spent in the beginning and then you can change your emotional and cognitive responses by conditioning yourself to find a different different route dynamo depression OCD and and obesity the drive to eat it can all be modulated and they're all housed near each other that speaks to what they are is is an imbalance of the emotional drive with the ability for the frontal lobes to tamp down some of these instincts it's instinctive to eat sometimes it can feel instinctive to be depressed and sometimes obsessive compulsion is is a part of our brain and it's a natural part of our brain if it's okay to have those feelings when you have too much the imbalance isn't just electrochemical in those emotional hubs it's a it's the frontal lobes not accessing their potential to tamp down some of the emotions that thinking of creating new habits and creating new values creating less triggers in your life that's the opportunity that we all have I think that's the project you're working on what's the stuff we do control without zapping ourselves and without putting pills in us those things set the boundaries but the frontal lobe regulation of how we feel is in your own command thought can change how fat your heartbeat why wouldn't we believe that thought can change those subcortical structures about anxiety and depression if you get depressed you're sort of you know that you can get stuck but people who aren't having those mental health issues but just want to be better and live a more rich life in the sense of personal experience we can think about our lives and our habits and triggers and create effects inside that's the mind-body connection is is mind down the body and many people feel you know body back up to and that's where meditation and meditative breathing come in it's not a simple one it's not a quick fix it's not gonna be a bullet it actually takes work you mentioned repetition it takes work it takes effort and there is no shortcut to it but it's a glacial change that can happen over a few months to a few years and I think once you know people go to the gym they can't not go to the gym anymore I think people who find these rituals and habits that make them feel better they become addictive to that and they're constructive and they're not pharmacologic you exercise it releases it at shower itself the brain says hey I'm feeling good this is good I like this I'm gonna create a new rut I'm gonna remind you feel good when you run the brain will shower itself with growth factors there are growth factors brain says hey you know the electrochemical balance is better with those so I think that's where you get the runner's high it's not just a drowning it's not dopamine's a happy chemical I'm jacked up I'm on adrenaline it's just such a complex ecosystem and rather than feeling intimidated by that to me I just see opportunities on how people can you know improve their lives changing what shows up on the counter is powerful and if we ate less and if we ate efficiently and we did you know it's a less carbon imprint I think all of those things it's good for the planet it's good for us it's mind and body and and then it's also communal you know then then it goes to the next generation it's not just something I did and then I think it can perpetuate so it's not just an individual thing