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We can change our brain activity to work in our favor and move us into an improved state that helps us achieve more of what we want.

We can re-wire our brain based on WHAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO.

To re-wire our brain away from negativity and self-criticism, we must re-direct our attention.

This video will give you 3 specific ideas to help you do this.

Give these three ideas a try and let me know how it goes in the comments! Also share your own ideas of how you get out of your own negative thoughts.

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“The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact: moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.”

― Michael Merzenich, Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life

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How to rewire your brain to lower self-doubt and self-criticism

I often get asked ‘what is a mindset in terms of what is happening inside the brain? ‘

Mindsets are a set of beliefs and predictions that reflect the activity of brain circuits that are well used and repeated.

When it comes to building brain networks, it’s survival-of-the-busiest.

Because you were around a small set of people during critical years of brain development, you were likely surrounded by similar behaviors and emotional responses over and over again.

The words that surrounded you were data that your brain gathered to create cause-effect models.

That is the basis of a mindset. It’s a set of cause-effect models of how the world operates and why things are the way they are.

Notice what happens if you don’t do well at something. Is there a voice that motivates you? Or does that voice beat you down and make you feel small, like giving up? That voice may have a lot to do with what you heard when you were young and what you surround yourself with now.

The good news is that you can update your brain networks and mindset… find out how in this video

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Get the new free tool kit - mindShift: how to cultivate paradigm time shifts using embodied social neuroscience (go to :

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Embodied Neuroscience to enhance your expertise:

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my Talks @Google also doves deep into this topic: https://www.youtube.com/@talksatgoogle

#mindset #predictions #growthmindset #talksatgoogle #mindsetmatters #brainhealth #algorithms

The neuroscience of growth mindset: how your past affects your present

“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness,
which unites your body to your thoughts.
Whenever your mind becomes scattered,
use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh* , The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

*Years ago, while studying with a professor at NYU who was looking at brains scans of monks, I decided to stay for a few months at various monasteries. One of them was under the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh. It was an eye-opening experience. We engaged in many meditation and mindful breathing practices.

#mindfulness #mindfulbreathing #breathing #meditation #emotionregulation #neuroplasticity #neuroscience #executivefunction #selfregulation #selfcare #brainhealth #brainpower

The science of mindful breathing to improve brain functioning

Taking things too personally can lead to over-amplified emotions and reactions that distort our thinking and relationships.

There are forces occurring under the surface for both you and the other person. Those forces may distort how you and the other person are interpreting each other’s behavior and may lead to reactions that are over-amplified and in many ways inaccurate.

When we don’t understand that these things are affecting ours (and their) response, we may end up continuously repeat the same type of negative interactions over and over again.

We can get better at navigating challenging interactions, feelings and relationships when we understand three particular unconscious influences.

#relationships #relationshipadvice #overpower #emotionalstatus #emotionregulation #emotional #subconsciousmind

*please note that the suggestions and exercises offered in these videos are not offered as a substitute for professional mental health care or medical care and are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any mental health or medical conditions.

How to not take things too personally (the neuroscience of stimulus-response)

How did the words you hear as you were growing up affect how your brain solves problems and deals with challenges now?

There are 2 kinds of speech that affect how we moved into different stages in childhood, and they affect how we perform on tasks, regulate our emotions, and direct our attention. Those 2 types of speech were influenced by the people around us. Learn more about them in this video.

#useyourwords #mentalhealth #emotionregulation #emotionalintelligence #neuroscience #vygotsky #neuroplasticity #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #attention

How words from childhood change your brain and behaviors

We are not born with many of the skills we need to reach our highest potential. We are born with the potential to develop them.

The malleability and adaptability of the human brain is what makes our intelligence have limitless potential. However, the sensitivity to our experiences and environments also means that our childhoods matter and may bring with them challenges that we must learn to navigate in new ways as we get older.

Learn about two types of neuroplasticity that affect how our brains develop and function.

My book is currently still in the proof stage at the publisher! Hopefully will be easy in a few weeks!

#emotionalintelligence #neuroscience #neuroplasticity #mentalhealth

Neuroplasticity: 2 ways life changes your brain

Empathy plays an important role in adaptive social relations, self-esteem and social competence

However, if we don’t understand the different types of empathy and how we can navigate them, being too empathic can lead to challenges in our own mental health and relationships.

Find out what we can do to use empathy in ways that help us connect, without falling into the traps that can happen when we over-use it.

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Neuroscience Workshop October 3!

Neuroplasticity: how early experiences shape the brain and life trajectories

Learn how brains develop over the lifespan and how early experiences shape brain architecture. We’ll explore how this knowledge can help us increase our understanding of our own past, and how the concept of neuroplasticity can empower us to take charge of our present conditions and ongoing evolution - as individuals, families and as a species.

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Empathy: why too much can hurt and what you can use instead

We all have emotion regulation strategies. We all have strategies for navigating stress and communicating with others.

The question is… are those actually working the way we want them to?
Are we achieving the state that we really want and the outcomes we really want?

To answer those questions, AND get better at not repeating behaviors that don’t serve us, there is an important two-part formula we can use, which I explain in this video.

Because we are energy-conserving creatures, our natural preference will generally lean towards doing things the way we’ve always done them, without questioning them.

Unfortunately, this can lead us to experience unwanted patterns over and over again in our relationships, decision-making and daily life.

To get the full article plus research citations, go to: stefaniefaye.com/articles/emotion-regulation-skills

#mentalhealth #neuroscience #emotionalintelligence #emotionregulation

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October: Neuroplasticity and early childhood: How life experiences affect brain development and life trajectories

November: Emotion Regulation: Mastering our nervous system across the lifespan

December: Attachment and Affiliative hormones: how our drive to connect can impair or enhance our lives

January: Distortions and filters: Why communicating and understanding others is harder than we think

February: What are emotions? A look at appraisals and coping

March: Vibrational Beings: How others’ frequencies affect and reflect our hearts and minds

April: 'Use your words': How language helps us regulate

May: Empathy and Social Understanding: Dangers, myths and benefits

June: Relational resilience: How to use neuroscience to build thriving families, partnerships and communities.

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Emotion regulation won’t work without this

Boundaries and a sense of power reflect important nervous mechanisms that play a role in relational dynamics and emotional strength.

The idea of anger & aggression is controversial. On the one hand, when we don’t have control of it, particularly when it is driven by unconscious forces, - such as unresolved trauma… aggression & anger can be projected to the wrong people at the wrong time.

There are many things in life that are not threatening. But because of our lack of awareness, we may see them as that, and become angry and aggressive for the wrong reasons.

Sometimes empathy is required. Empathy and compassion are elements that help us get along with others. But many of us have been taught to focus almost exclusively on empathy. To be polite and agreeable. Unfortunately, in certain situations, such as when someone wants to do harm to another, the sympatho-excitatory circuits involved in fighting or running away, are needed.

Anger can be a powerful force for change. It is what mobilizes our system into action, rather than submission, cowering or defeat. Neurophysiologically, the systems we use that are associated with anger have to do with perceiving an obstruction to a goal, and a perceived ability to remove or navigate that challenge, threat or obstacle. These systems activate blood flow to neural circuits and skeletal (voluntary, striated) muscles that change our voice, body movements and decision processes. When used as a power for enhancing life, these elements of anger can be a wake-up call for others and a source of strength for ourselves.

Flexibility & access to a VARIETY of responses is the key to healthy social & psychological functioning. Completely suppressing our access to a feeling of self protection & anger robs an essential sympathoexcitatory ‘gear’ from the mechanics of that system.

When we know we have an ability to protect our personal boundaries using a wide range of responses - whether psychological tactics, voice, gestures, posture, presence and training - this creates stronger internal working models that have a higher number of choice points in each situation.

All of this adds complexity to the brain and requires deeper psychological understandings of ourselves, our triggers. It requires us to learn about and rehearse scenarios mentally and physically ahead of time to activate those complex circuits.

More complexity = more choices, which means more sound reasoning used to make decisions instead of reacting from an exclusively primitive, unconscious state.

Range and repertoire are key.

Extremely grateful to the empowering communities of @fieldcraftsurvival & @sbgmontana for what I’m learning. I just finished a personal security course with Fieldcraft survival and it was a great experience. More training & insights to come!

Oh and full YT video on this YouTube.com/c/stefanieffaye link in story!

Reflection: If you’ve been taught to only be polite, not speak up.. has this affected how you react to situations that make you uncomfortable?

The neuroscience of boundaries & power - and why we need them

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