English transcript

Here's a neuroscience trick to stop negative thought loops. You're gonna love it. It's gonna get your mind off the merry-go-round

If you're new here, I'm Michael

I'm a licensed acupuncturist specializing in neuroscience and I'm gonna tell you something that most people misunderstand about their brain

You don't actually have a thinking problem. You have an algorithm problem. You're like what my brain has an algorithm?

Yeah, your brain works like an algorithm

Whatever you give your attention to and engage with it sends you more of and right now if you have regular negative thought loops

You're training your algorithm for stress every time you rehearse worry or replay worst-case

Scenarios or mentally argue with problems that haven't even happened yet

Your brain marks that as important and your algorithm starts delivering more of that. This is not a mindset issue

This is a neuroscience issue

Your brain is running three major networks all day long your salience network is the system that decides what matters the default mode network

Is like the looping story of your life and the dopamine reward system

is the circuitry that tells your brain what's worth paying attention to when you worry and run negative thought loops all three of those systems work

At the same time and your brain goes this matters

Let's keep thinking about this and let's scan for more things like it and suddenly your feed fills up with negative thought loops

Loops like what if something goes wrong? What if I mess this up?

What if the future falls apart and it's not because life got worse. It's because your algorithm learned that worry gets engagement

So here's how you retrain it step one take out your phone and set a timer for one minute now start naming things

You already have in your life that you appreciate and why you appreciate them and say it out loud or under your breath

But it's important to engage your brain fully with your mouth

For example, my coffee this morning was just perfect then pause and feel that tiny flicker of appreciation that little shift that little flicker

That's hit of dopamine. Your brain is getting then do the next one. My daughter's laugh pause

Boom hit of dopamine do this for one complete minute step two when the timer goes off set it again and go for two more

Rounds and what just happened these little hits of appreciation retrain your brains algorithm

You told your nervous system these appreciation signals are the signals that matter

So your salience network tags them your dopamine system

Rewards them and your default mode network starts playing better more positive loops of your life story and slowly your brains

Algorithm stops delivering you things to worry about and it's not because you forced it. It's because you retrained it

You don't need a better mind. You just need a better algorithm. Follow me like the video and click the link in my bio

I've got a few different programs in there that might be of interest to you vibrant beings. Have a great day