ABOUT YOUR BRAIN Lesson #4 NeuroPlasticity

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  I walk into some stories, Miss Ewing, this is part

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  for the syriza about our brain, and we're gonna be

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  talking about euro plasticity.

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  You're probably thinking streak going.

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  What the heck is neuro plasticity?

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  So before we get started, what do you think neural

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  plasticity is?

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  I wonder what I like to do.

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  If I'm not sure what I know what a word

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  is. Try to pull out a part that I might

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  know. Neural plasticity.

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  What? You guess So, what is neural plasticity?

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  So we break it apart.

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  Euro is the prefix referencing our nervous systems of all

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  the nerves in our body.

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  Plasticity means it's easily shaped or molded.

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  Think about the word plastic.

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  It's actually in that part of the word.

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  So if we put those together, narrow plasticity is the

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  ease of molding your brain.

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  Did you know you could mold your brain?

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  What do you think it means?

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  Smolder brain?

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  I'm not saying that you pull it out and you're

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  gonna mold it like Plato and make some figures or

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  a car.

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  You know something?

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  What does it mean?

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  Have neural plasticity Take a moment to think about So

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  everybody wants a happy brain all right.

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  Not a huge fan of taking pictures that shows the

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  brain having arms, legs and eyes because we all know

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  that in real life a brain isn't a separate part

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  of our body.

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  But we referenced things like a happy brain.

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  That means we're in a good space.

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  But that doesn't mean all the time and a happy

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  brain. If you think about those rubber bands between fingers,

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  there's actually some stretch and give.

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  And if you think about the brain, sort of like

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  the way we work out a muscle, we can actually

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  trainer muscle to get bigger.

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  Well, we can train our brain to be better.

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  Now remember, the brain is an organ muscles muscles who

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  don't confuse them.

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  But there is some plasticity to our brain.

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  No. Have you ever heard someone say, Oh, that's just

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  the way my brain is or I'm my brain can't

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  do that or I've got a bad brain.

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  Those aren't true.

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  Everybody has the same brain in their heads.

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  Just how we use it is different now.

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  There are not all made equal, and they're not all

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  the same, and I'm not going to get into all

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  that. But We all have a brain in your head,

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  and we can all work to use the neural plasticity

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  to change what are brain does.

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  So nobody actually has a bad brain.

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  There's no such thing.

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  It's like saying that's a bad person.

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  No, they've made bad choices, but they're not a bad

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  person just like that.

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  You don't have a bad brain.

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  We talked about the amygdala way back.

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  I think in lesson to now the mandala being hijacked

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  actually makes our brain do things that we don't want

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  it to do.

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  So we've gotta use that neuro plasticity in the Meilin

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  that we learned about to actually re get our brain

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  working differently.

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  So going back to the Magdala hijack remember that fight

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  or flight response or freeze?

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  All right, well, that's because that's what the amygdala hijack

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  Our Miguel has learned to dio, so we've not have

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  to use our neural plasticity toe actually re program, recreate

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  the Milon to get back to a brain that's like

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  we're ready to go, right?

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  But remember, does your brain have eyes?

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  No. Does your brain have hands and feet?

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  No, it's just a picture, not a huge fan, but

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  it gets my point across that we've got a good

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  working brain and the better our brain is the better

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  week and away from the image will hijack.

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  Get away from that fight, flight or freeze.

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  We've got a brain that's gonna learn better.

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  We've gotta get our brain toe where it wants to

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  learn more by creating more What?

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  What's the thing that we want to create more, but

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  sort of like a fireman holding the hose?

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  Do you remember violence?

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  And again, we're not gonna put a hat on her

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  brain that go on top of our school.

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  But it goes back to creating more mile on on

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  the accident accident that is going to control our dendrites.

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  Remember when you got the myelin sheath on their It

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  controls it like a firemen.

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  When it's not, it's like the hose just going all

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  over the place, and we don't want that.

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  We want this smiling to start to develop so that

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  we can learn more and learn more things.

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  So remember that's not a thing.

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  Don't ever say, Well, that's just the way my brain

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  is. You can say, Well, that's the way my brain

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  is right now.

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  But I'm working.

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  I'm growing more my line and changing the amygdala.

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  So it wasn't get hijacked all the time.

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  But you're doing that.

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  How? What is it about our brain that could be

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  moulded neural plasticity?

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  That is how we're going to make a stronger brain.

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  Now, remember, brains, not a muscle, doesn't lift weights, doesn't

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  have eyes in the mouth and it doesn't wear red

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  shoes. But we can make our brains stronger by using

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  the neuro plasticity and developing new milon so we can

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  change the way our brain works now, once my island's

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  created, we can't get rid of it.

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  But we can develop new Meilin.

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  That's actually stronger than the other Milon and it overrides

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  it. So once we've learned something, we can actually unlearn

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  it and then re learn something.

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  So if you have learned to go into a Magdala

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  hijack when you walk into school immediately to run yeah,

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  you have to unlearn that behavior.

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  I know that when you walk into school, you've got

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  to come up with a new path that's gonna be

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  the relearning fleet piece.

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  That's because you have in your neural plasticity you can

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  relearn behavior.

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  You can change it.

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  You are in control of changing that behavior.

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  No one else.

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  I can't do it for you.

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  Your family can't do it for your teacher.

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  Can't do it for you have to take what you

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  learn. I learned it and then re learn it because

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  of your neuro plasticity.

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  You could do that.

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  And you can change your Aunt Magdala hijacked by using

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  what material?

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  Think about the fireman not going to tell you again.

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  We learned something.

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  It's like a puzzle.

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  I'm learning.

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  We got to take that puzzle pieces of the puzzle

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  pieces apart and then we gotta put him together, kind

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  of in a different matter.

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  But we can do it.

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  You can do it.

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  That's how we re learn something.

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  So it's sort of like brain hypnosis.

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  Do you know hypnosis is?

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  I don't look it up, but learn, re unlearn and

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  relearn is basically kind of like brain hypnosis were hypnotizing

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  the brain to think something else.

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  Now we're not really hypnotizing your brain, but we can

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  think about reprogramming creating more milon because our neural plasticity

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  allows us to do it.

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  Just because you've got something set into your brain doesn't

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  mean you can't unlearn it.

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  So I'm gonna give you some five easy steps how

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  to do a brain hypnosis.

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  All right, Our first step.

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  Close your eyes.

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  Take a deep breath in hold it for two seconds.

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  Completely excelled through the nose trying to push out every

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  drop of error in your lungs and smile.

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  That should do it.

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  Step two say out loud.

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  I am safe.

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  I am calm.

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  I am love you See this five times and smile

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  between each time.

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  Step three Keep your eyes close Thinking picture of the

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  happiest or funniest time you could imagine for a minute.

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  So for now, say out loud and ask your brain

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  Why am I so relaxed?

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  Why am I so happy and then take a minute

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  to answer yourself?

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  Why are you so relaxed?

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  Why are you so happy and then step by toe?

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  Hold this in your praying.

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  Repeat, Step one again.

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  If you do this in a situation that you know

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  that you're going to go into a middle hijack your

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  using your you're a plasticity to create new Milon to

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  override the old Milon, that would have put you into

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  a Magdala hijack wanting to try this.

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  Find a situation that, you know, upset.

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  You use this brain hypnosis to change that so we

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  can build stronger brain.

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  You've got this.

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  You can do it.

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  Neural plasticity.

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  It is the reason our brain is such an amazing,

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  strong Oregon that does amazing things.