Four Steps Change Your Brain Wiring in Healthy
Jeffrey M. Schwartz has spent his career researching the human brain as a renowned neuroplasticity researcher and writer of the seminal books Brain Lock and The Mind and the Brain. He developed the first insight meditation treatment programme for OCD sufferers, educating them how to attain long-term relief from their habits.
Schwartz collaborates with psychiatrist Rebecca Gladding to perfect a software that explains how the brain works and why we frequently feel besieged by hyperactive brain circuits (i.e., bad habits, social anxieties, etc.). The key to accomplishing the desired life changes—to having your brain work for you—is to intentionally choose to "starve" these circuits of focused attention, reducing their power and strength.
You Are Not Your Brain thoroughly lays out their method, showing readers how to detect unwanted thoughts, divert them via the power of concentrated attention, and eventually live more satisfying and powerful lives.
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The Four Steps Change Your Brain Wiring in Healthy, Adaptive Ways
Step 1: Relabel
Discover your false brain signals and unpleasant feelings; name things exactly what they are.
Step 2: Reframe
Adjust your viewpoint of the significance of the false brain signals; explain why these ideas, cravings, and emotions continue to affect you: Incorrect brain signals (It's not ME, it's
my BRAIN only!).
Step 3: Refocus
Even if the incorrect and false cravings, ideas, impulses, and feelings remain and are upsetting you, divert your focus onto a healthful and beneficial task or conscious mental.
Step 4: Revalue
Recognize feelings, desires, and emotions for what they actually are: feelings created by false brain signals that are not real and are of minimal to no value (these are anything to avoid rather than concentrate on).
