Getting the User's Manual to Your Brain - Part 1
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Understanding the user's manual to the brain helps understand emotions and others' thoughts and feelings. Stress and overstimulation affect the prefrontal cortex, leading to a loss of patience and empathy. Self-care, stress management, and naming emotions can regulate empathy and patience.
Change requires rewiring the brain and can be frustrating, but building relationships, using humor, and practicing self-compassion can make it easier.
The brain has two working modes: focused attention and mind wandering/creativity. Balancing these modes is important for productivity and creativity.
Emotions are constructed based on physical sensations in the body. Creating a safe environment and giving choices helps people discuss emotions and challenges.
The brain predicts future outcomes based on past experiences, impacting emotions and reactions. Misophonia is a condition where the brain struggles to filter out annoying noises, causing heightened emotional response.
The next session, User’s Manual to Your Brain - Part 2, will focus on the impact of the right and left hemispheres on structure, freedom, chaos, and rigidity.