What if the mental chatter, anxiety, and rumination you can't switch off isn't a sign your mind is broken — but proof it's doing exactly what it evolved to do?

Buddhism figured out something about the brain thousands of years before neuroscience had a word for it. In this episode, I sit down with Saw Mint (Saw S.K. Yin) — a CPA-qualified finance broker, property developer, and founder of a Buddhist-inspired mental health charity in New South Wales, Australia. For over 30 years she's guided people through some of the most stressful decisions of their lives, blending hard financial pragmatism with a deeply practiced, Buddhist-informed approach to the mind.

We talk about her own story — being locked away as a child in Myanmar before the age of 10 — and how she turned that suffering into a lifelong practice of service and self-mental healthcare.

In this episode:
✅ What Buddhism actually says about the mind — and why neuroscience is catching up
✅ How suffering is created in the brain, and how it can be interrupted
✅ Why only 25% of what you worry about ever comes true
✅ What "self-mental healthcare" looks like stripped down to something anyone can do
✅ The one thing to say to yourself when you can't stop your thoughts at night
✅ How impermanence ("this too shall pass") maps onto real emotional regulation science

A significant amount of emotional pain is generated not by what's happening right now, but by memory, reflection, or imagination. Your brain is often suffering over something that isn't even real in the moment. That's not weakness — that's neuroscience. And it can change.

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I'm Rosabel Zohfeld — Neurology Nurse Practitioner & Neuroscience Educator. Real neuroscience. No toxic positivity. No jargon.

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