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- Season 3 Episode 9 – Mindset, Purpose & Neuroplasticity: Career Insights & Perspectives
A quick episode that covers some insights gained over the course of my career in human communication and psychology, child development, teaching, and neuroscience. Highlights include the importance of: mindset, purpose and effective teachers anti-disciplinary thinking and teams...
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44 min - Season 3 Episode 8 – Warriors Heart: Courage, Connection and Healing
“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” ― Shannon L. Alder Listen on Blubrry Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify How we distract ourselves...
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1 hr 26 min - Season 3 Episode 7 – Danger, Attachment and Navigating our Neurochemicals with Loretta Breuning
Danger - and how it is dealt with - is the central theme of attachment - and therefore human interaction. Who we turn to and who we have around us during times of uncertainty and threat affect our abilities for information processing and preparing and responding to future events.
The concept of how we regulate ourselves and with others, and how we deal with social danger, rejection, status, comparison, the need for acceptance, and how we diversify our abilities to navigate our neurochemicals are topics we cover in this Episode of the Mindset Neuroscience Podcast, where I interview Loretta Breuning of the Inner Mammal Institute.
In our interview, we explore:
-The neurochemicals associated with how it feels to have social support - and how this differs from social dominance
-The fluctuations of neurochemicals, feelings and behaviors tied to threat, rejection, and constantly seeking external rewards and short-term gratification-Being more realistic about the ups and downs of all of our neurochemical states, rather than believing we should feel good all the time.-The biological purposes to the fluctuations and varieties of states we experience and why it’s helpful for us to understand this so we can get better a-t making choices that are good for our mental and physical health-The life-threatening feelings people experience when it comes to social rejection, and social comparison-How our brain and body store information about threats, and how this can significantly influence our current reactions to people-The idea of ‘dopamine droop’ and our constant urge to seek reward and avoid discomfort"We have inherited a brain that compares itself to others to promote its survival. It creates has a sense of urgency about how it measures up. If you don’t know you are creating this feeling yourself, you think the world is doing it to you. You feel bitter, resentful, and victimized. Instead, you can accept that the people around you are mammals, and you are a mammal too." -Loretta Breuning, Inner Mammal Institute
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1 hr 43 min - Season 2 Ep 6: Love, Purpose and Relational Realities
“Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.” ― Esther Perel “And what is true for human beings is true for every living thing: all organisms require alternating periods of growth and equilibrium. Any person...
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43 min - Season 3 Episode 5: Why social rejection is so scary – the science of communication, maturity and purpose
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” * ― Leo Tolstoy Listen on Blubrry Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts We are in the most interconnected period that humanity has ever experienced. The...
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1 hr 11 min - Embodied Cognition and Learning with Drs. Sheila Macrine and Jennifer Fugate
Learning is a gateway to power and freedom Learning increases our degrees of freedom by giving us new ways to move, communicate and adapt to challenges and capitalize on opportunities. Listen on Blubrry Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple...
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1 hr 28 min - Season 3 Ep 3: The socio-biomechanics of resilience, trust and flow
“Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.” ― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Studying human brains while a person is immobile and alone in an mri machine can only get us so...
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1 hr 41 min - Season 3 Episode 2 – Interview with Jason Knight: Natural Intelligence and Embodied Mindsets
To update our algorithms and enhance our brain functioning, there is one key thing we can do: Intentionally add experiences into our weekly routine that engage our sensory-motor systems in ways that are completely unfamiliar to us.
That is the essence of my interview with Jason Knight, director of Alderleaf Wilderness College. In this interview, we discuss:
-Jason’s journey to becoming a wilderness expert and his desire to connect people more deeply with nature and the types of thinking that come with those experiences;-How people’s mindsets get disrupted when they experience a learning environment that challenges what they are used to;-How our awareness expands as we spend time in nature: we begin to see allies, tools and individuated beings;-A truly embodied perspective of empathy: working with natural systems requires us to move out of our self-referential networks and expand into neural territories that recognize how another living organism can perceive the world differently than us;-High-level pattern recognition: how get the best possible solution and sustainable way of achieving a goal by expanding the space-time horizon and creating maps to see multiple systems working together across long periods of timeThe post Season 3 Episode 2 – Interview with Jason Knight: Natural Intelligence and Embodied Mindsets appeared first on StefanieFaye.
46 min - Season 3 Episode 1 – Biomechanics of Human Communication and Social Intelligence
In this episode, I explore:
-the difference between our autonomic and somatic nervous systems and why knowing the difference gives us power to change
-biomechanisms we use to protect or defend ourselves that are tied to our past and may not be helpful to us in our current situation (as I am learning, these can be hard habits to break)-how we can experiment with new patterns using skeletal muscles to control our breath, voice, eyes, hands and body within our social interactions-10 key mechanical adjustments we can make to move in this world in ways that optimize our functioning and sense of fulfillment-how our hyper-focus on words & devices makes us lose touch with our bodies, with our environment and with all the non-verbal aspects of lifeThe post Season 3 Episode 1 – Biomechanics of Human Communication and Social Intelligence appeared first on StefanieFaye.
59 min - Season 2 Episode 12 – Moral Injury, Forgiveness and Cognitive Flexibility
What is moral injury, and how can we use it as a path to cognitive flexibility, sense of purpose and forgiveness?
In this episode, we explore the following:
- what is moral injury
- what is morality and how it can be used to improve energy efficiency and resilience of the human species- how forgiveness and flexibility help us activate highly sophisticated and evolved neural mechanisms- that brain activations that are different in trauma compared with moral injury- how the human species is an interconnected network of nodes that requires social signaling for trust and cooperationThe post Season 2 Episode 12 – Moral Injury, Forgiveness and Cognitive Flexibility appeared first on StefanieFaye.
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