BRAIN CHANGE

3 IMPORTANT Takeaways

1. Change is scary to our brains, so they sabotage it by defaulting to fear.
2. Change is also craved by our brains to learn and grow.
3. Change requires taking control of your mind instead of letting your mind control you.

This final episode of Season 7 of the Cultivation Podcast wraps up our season of change by giving you the important topic of navigating change in our minds.

There’s a lot happening upstairs as we go through change. Change begins inside of us with visualizing it before it manifests externally. 

Our brains HATE the unknown and our brains are programmed to automate as many processes as possible. They are trying to automate instead of burning calories by thinking. That is why we often jump to conclusions and make assumptions.

When it comes to navigating change, our brain goes to the fear factor, and we start thinking about all the things we will lose or how it will fall apart. We tend to fill in the gaps with the negativity of what we’ve experienced in our past. 

What our brain wants us not to do is the same thing it simultaneously craves - change causes our brain to grow new connections and patterns. 

Knowing that neuroscience of how our brain works allows us to approach change with a more mature understanding. 

You must take control of your mind instead of letting it control you. You will have to think through whether it’s an imaginary outcome, a made-up scenario or if it’s a real possibility.

The downside is that with any change comes the risk of it failing. But as I’ve said before on this podcast: Any time you fail, you grow. You learn how to do it better next time and that is how you can choose to embrace failure. 

Don’t be paralyzed by the fear of the unknown or anxiety of making a change, because failure to make changes in your life will result in your greatest regrets.

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