Breaking Bad Habits: Neuroscience Hacks You Need to Know - Nicole Vignola

💬 “If you're feeling a particular way - sad, upset, angry, thirsty, hungry - your automatic reaction is ‘I've got comfort in my phone’. So it becomes a pattern that is ingrained. Not deeply ingrained, because we can break it.” -Dr Nicole Vignola

⚡️ Dr Nicole Vignola is a well-known neuroscientist and brain expert, and author of Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change. 

⚡️ In this episode, Nicole and I explore how to break bad habits, phone addiction, negative self-talk, anxiety and rewire your brain for happiness, health and performance.

🎧 Stay tuned to find out:

➡︎ A simple trick to break smartphone addiction and why you should avoid it in the morning

➡︎ How to keep your brain adapting and developing at any age

➡ The science of how walking resets our brain by quieting fear receptors in the brain

➡︎ How to reframe negativity and reinforce positive self-talk

➡︎ The true extent of poor sleep on brain health

📕 Chapters

(1:42) How neuroscience affects you

(4:30) How to avoid cognitive decline

(10:21) Meditation and mental breaks

(12:04) Breaking phone addiction

(16:02) Properly dealing with stress

(22:07) Reframing negative self-talk

(31:27) Healthy dopamine hits

(34:47) Improving brain performance at any age

(39:25) Manifestation

(41:53) Benefits of doing nothing

(44:38) How Nicole optimises her brain

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📱 Connect with Nicole:

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Website: https://www.nicolesneuroscience.com/ 

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