This week, I offer you 2 videos that discuss how the brain works and how to help it help you. Your brain is powerful and brilliant but sometimes, in its attempt to keep you safe, it is misguided. You can override this when you need to. I offer a couple of tips about how this works.

Focus on an Outcome, Not on the Problem

In today's video, I talk a bit about brain science. If we can understand how the brain works, we can support it to work for us instead of against us. There are three parts to our brain: the cerebrum, cerebellum, and the brain stem. The brain stem (also known as the reptilian brain) can sometimes wreak a bit of havoc on us when it gets triggered because it is desperate to keep us safe. It can feel threatened even when there is no real threat. So, we have to bring our cerebrum online to override our trigger happy brain stem. I talk about one way to do this.

Train Your Brain to See the Good

Today's video is a follow-up to the last. We go a bit deeper into how your brain works and how to override some of its limitations. The brain's primary functions are to keep you safe and to conserve energy. Overall, it does a great job but sometimes it works against what's best for us and we have to intentionally override it. The good news is that we can!