Taking Control of Your Brain: An interview with Puja Aggarwal
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Your brain is programmed to be negative and not for joy.
While your heart and spirit wants to soar, your brain is trying to keep your default comfort zone, which can be based on the negative stories from childhood, past relationship and negative self chatter.
So, how do you take control of your brain to live a life of Joy?
In this week's episode Christina is joined by Puja Aggarwal, aNeurologist/Epileptologist, Neuroscientist and Certified Executive Coach.
Puja specialises in the neurological process of mindfulness and understanding how to truly Train Your Brain.
In this episode, Christina and Puja discuss:
- Harnessing the power of your brain
- Why the brain wants to keep you safe and comfortable
- Why the brain resists change
- What's happening when you Overthink
- How you can be programmed for Anxiety
- The Science of Anxiety
- The Thought Download process
- Your Negativity Bias: how we are naturally negative.
- The Science of Gratitude and how to program yourself for Joy
- Training your brain for and with mindfulness
- Changing your default
Dr. Puja Aggarwal MD MBA is a Board Certified Neurologist/Epileptologist, Neuroscientist and Certified Executive Coach. She completed a 6 year B.S./M.D. program and then completed her residency at Ohio State University in Neurology and a fellowship at Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital. She has been a practicing Neurologist for 14 years in addition to leading cutting edge clinical research about the brain. In 2021, she became a Certified Executive Coach to help others learn the importance of brain health and how to boost brain power.
Now, she coaches other professionals to change their mindset, reflect more on life and make self care a priority.
Puja has been featured in Forbes, Authority magazine, Medium magazine, iHeart Radio and Radio America, ABC 15, WebMD and several other media outlets
For more information on her amazing work, please visit:
www.zenfulbrain.com
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Christina Fletcher is a Spiritual Alignment coach, energy worker, author, speaker and host of the podcast Showing Up Whole.
She specialises in practical spirituality and integrating inner work with outer living, so you can get self development off of the hobby shelf and integrated as a powerful fuel to your life.
Through mindset, spiritual connection, intuitive guidance, manifestation, and mindfulness techniques Christina helps her clients overcome overwhelm and shame to find a place of flow, ease, and deep heart-centered connection.
Christina has been a spiritual alignment coach, healer and spiritually aware parent coach for 7 years and trained in Therapeutic Touch 8 years ago. She is also a meditation teacher and speaker.
For more information please visit her website www.spirituallyawareliving.com
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