Neuroscientist's Guide To Completely HEAL Your BODY & MIND | Dr. Caroline Leaf EP 407

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0:53What was the process that you broke down of feeling more peace, groundedness, calm? This is what I initially developed for people with traumatic brain injury. It was my first time that I developed it and developed my theory. And then from there, I refined it to all the different types of situations I worked with. And then it's been refined over the years. This is the most updated research. So a good scientist should keep learning and changing and improving, which is what I've tried to do. The neurocycle is how you get your mind, which is always working, under control. Acute trauma creates a red brain.

1:25I showed you that picture of a red brain. That red brain means that I have a tidal wave in my brain going on. or that the left and the right brain will be out of harmony. I'll have a drop of blood and oxygen to the front of my brain. I'm going to have things like the delta. We've heard of things like delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma. All those waves are supposed to flow like waves in the sea. And if you think of the sea, you've got the big swells, which is delta, slightly smaller swells, which is theta. Then they build, which is beta, the crest, which is high beta, and the gamma, which is the ripple on the beach.

1:54And so we want that through the brain in this nice kind of even way. That's kind of the why state. X plus Y, X is what happens to us, Y is that state. So X happens and then that Y state gets thrown off. So what we want to do is because mind works through brain and body and mind is experiencing this trauma, which is a mess, our brain and body just do what the mind's doing. So then there's a mess in our brain and our body. But if I have that kind of chaos, I can't think straight. I'm not going to have any wisdom. I'm going to fall apart. And I talk about that this neuro cycle can improve how you manage anxiety and depression by 81%.

2:30That's a massive claim. And I've shown it scientifically. What I did was to try and get myself back under control. Now, in that state, you don't know what to do in a tremendously acute traumatic state. But I knew from my science and from my knowledge, so I'm proactive, so I could go into two modes. The one mode was the mental mess that I was in, which is the pilot, because I'm driving, I'm in this time. Imagine yourself being in a helicopter that's like a time capsule. And you're flying over this forest. and the forest is your mind with all these trees. And this acute trauma has just grown because it's instant.

3:02And your helicopter is drawn to this because you are in shock and terror and fear and deep panic and anxiety. That is all the smoke signals. My pilot's going like this. The co-pilot is also me, but it's my wisdom because inside of each of us is our survival. And that's our instinct. You know when you give someone great advice and you just think, oh, wow, where did that come from? You get that. There are, that depth, like we know what we know. We know how much we can handle. We will say, I know this, that kind of thing. That's the co-pilot, this wisdom. So what we want to do in those states is to get ourselves into the co-pilot.

3:36Remember the co-pilot and the pilot, and you use the you language. So here you're flying this plane all over, and the co-pilot's saying, okay, let's calm down. Let's land it at that tree. So you land the plane. You land this time capsule, whatever. And you get out, but you're with the co-pilot, so you're safe. So you've created a distance. But this is the mindset that I have trained myself to come into so I can go into an acute trauma in that mind. I'm still crying. I'm still freaking out. Right. But I'm freaking out in this zone where I now know because I know that I need wisdom. I need to be able to tap into it.

4:07And I cannot get through this chaos, this chaotic brain and body and mind unless I've calmed it down. Because I'm stuck in that black tree and I'm stuck in this chaotic brain. Would that be considered like fight or flight, whether it's someone cutting you off in front of you on the street in the car or someone yelling at you or someone, whatever, an event happening which is causing you to react in fight or flight, whether it's a massive T trauma or little T trauma, right? Exactly, exactly. Or an acute trauma, which is the blind signing stuff, the stuff you don't expect. That just hits us out the blue.

4:39Yes, absolutely. So you're going into a level of fight and flight. So everything physiologically, 1400 neurophysiological responses are activated to help you focus. But they can't work for you unless you do what I'm telling you to do, which is to shift your perception. So this is the how-to. Because as soon as you shift your perception, in an instant, I was able to manage it more and more.

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