Embracing Self-Acceptance
Loretta emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance as a foundation for personal growth, highlighting that our brains are wired to prioritize survival behaviors over traditional notions of happiness. She shares her personal journey of transforming crises into opportunities for positive change. The conversation also touches on the application of clicker training in dogs to counteract negative experiences, illustrating how understanding behavior can lead to healing.In this clip
From this podcast
Untangle
Loretta Breuning - Retrain Your Brain to Boost the Happy Chemicals
Related Questions
How have you integrated self-acceptance and the understanding of negative brain circuits into your life after listening to the episode Encore - Loretta Breuning - Retrain Your Brain to Boost the Happy Chemicals and the clip Embracing Self-Acceptance?
How can you "learn" new ways of being, such as being kinder, and how can you trigger neuroplasticity to change and improve personality traits?
Can I use cognitive rewards to imprint my brain's reticular activation system and shape it according to what I want? For example, if I want to see more happy people, if every time my brain finds a happy person I congratulate myself, will it become a default pathway instead of spotting unhappy people? Similarly, if every time I have a positive thought instead of a negative one, and I reward myself cognitively by saying things like, "Yes, well done, I'm so happy now, that's what I like, that's what I want to keep seeing," will that work?