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Mindset Reset Toolkit: How to Make Your Mind Work for You (Using Simple Neuroscience)

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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The Retina Activating System (RAS) Is Changing in Real Time

There is a filter in your brain called the reticular activating system. The RAS has to determine in real time what information it should allow into your conscious mind for you to see and register. Another way that you can think about the RAS is like a bouncer in your brain. It determines what is it that is important enough to Mel Robbins that we are going to let it right in? That's how the bouncer inYourMind works.

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