
Neuroscientist: How To Reinvent Yourself Today - Live Longer, Healthier & Happier | Tara Swart
Rangan Chatterjee
Jun 21, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Sleep on your side to enhance brain detoxification
Sleeping on your side is the best position for your brain's glymphatic system to work efficiently and flush out toxins linked to diseases like Alzheimer's.
Practice 12 minutes of daily mindfulness meditation to boost resilience
A study on US Marines showed that just 12 minutes of daily mindfulness meditation is the minimum effective dose required to increase resilience on the battlefield.
Utilize Tetris effect with a vision board for positive impressions
Placing a vision board by your bed utilizes the 'Tetris effect,' making your brain more impressionable to those images in the impressionable states of falling asleep and waking.
Feed your brain positivity to combat negativity bias
The brain is naturally two to two-and-a-half times more likely to focus on negative information than positive, so you must consciously feed it positivity to stay confident.
Train interoception to enhance health awareness
You can train your actual sixth sense, called interoception, which is the awareness of your internal bodily state, through practices like body scans to better understand your health.
Identify core values through personal dislikes
To identify your most strongly held value, think about the characteristic you most dislike in other people, as the opposite is likely your core value.
Manage chronic stress to preserve cognitive flexibility and emotional regulation
Chronic stress literally makes you a different person by rerouting blood flow away from your prefrontal cortex, which impairs flexible thinking and emotional regulation.
Manage stress to combat stubborn belly fat
The stress hormone cortisol encourages the storage of visceral fat in the abdominal cells, which is why you may struggle to lose belly fat even with diet and exercise.
Change ten things by one percent for greater impact
It is more effective to change ten things in your life by one percent than to try and change one thing by ten percent.
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