022 - How To Rewire Your Brain and Change Your Subconscious Beliefs

Mind Less

“You are not your brain, you are not your ego.”

Have you ever made a self-deprecating joke about yourself and really wondered where the hell it was coming from? Or perhaps you’ve had a bad habit that has stuck with you like glue since, well, forever? And what does the placebo effect have to do with any of it, anyway? This week join the ever loquacious Lorena and Kelly in picking apart what it really looks like to rewire your brain and, as our dear Dispenza says, break the habit of being yourself! Sound weird? It’s not as weird as you think - get ready for a conversation that’s two parts science and one part self-love in the most transformative way.

The episode starts with the dyad digging into the science behind the idea of rewiring your brain. Does decentralising yourself from your personality mean that you’re not good? Or is it more about figuring out who you are outside of your ego? Lorena helps us out by explaining a bit of the science-y parts (say it with us, NEUROPLASTICITY) while Kelly chimes in with their perspective on the similarities to the theories and their experience with cognitive behavioural therapy - otherwise known as CBT.

From there on the discussion centres on how we can distance ourselves from the negative pathways our brain has set us up to follow, most, of which, have been cemented into habit due to experiences and events from our childhood and upbringing. Kelly continues to gush about how dang important therapy is to them by allowing them the outsider perspective to the cluttered space in their mind. For Lorena the key element here is having someone to reflect back to her the story she’s telling herself so she can understand where she is in her own narrative and then change it. Both agree that out of all of this, the language we use to describe, think, and talk about ourselves has so much more power than we imagine.

The episode concludes with the two exchanging stories about how these concepts can work in practice and the differences they’ve made in both of their lives. Lorena can better take control of her emotions and feelings now that she understands how those habits were formed in the first place, and both agree that we can all be our own biggest heroes by simply deciding that the negative monologues running through our head aren’t worth listening to anymore.

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