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Dr. Russell Kennedy

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Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So what I would do with you is I'd say, okay, grab that feeling sense that felt really good. Close your eyes, relax your shoulders, relax your jaw. Just really get into that feeling sense of this is really amazing. I'm really loving this. And then we go back into that place in the solar plexus, that red hot place, and we sort of go back and forth between the two.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So what I would do with you is I'd say, okay, grab that feeling sense that felt really good. Close your eyes, relax your shoulders, relax your jaw. Just really get into that feeling sense of this is really amazing. I'm really loving this. And then we go back into that place in the solar plexus, that red hot place, and we sort of go back and forth between the two.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So a lot of people say, oh, you have to sit in your pain. It's like, no, you don't. Actually, you can really make yourself worse If you have that sort of mandate for yourself, I've got to just sit in there and deal with it. And really, you need a way out. You need a way to change it.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So a lot of people say, oh, you have to sit in your pain. It's like, no, you don't. Actually, you can really make yourself worse If you have that sort of mandate for yourself, I've got to just sit in there and deal with it. And really, you need a way out. You need a way to change it.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So a lot of people say, oh, you have to sit in your pain. It's like, no, you don't. Actually, you can really make yourself worse If you have that sort of mandate for yourself, I've got to just sit in there and deal with it. And really, you need a way out. You need a way to change it.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So often I will get people to breathe into it, to put some pressure over the area, sometimes tapping over it makes a difference. So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to change the brain's representation of that alarm, which is held in what's called the insular cortex. The insular cortex is a part of the brain that kind of maps the body onto the mind.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So often I will get people to breathe into it, to put some pressure over the area, sometimes tapping over it makes a difference. So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to change the brain's representation of that alarm, which is held in what's called the insular cortex. The insular cortex is a part of the brain that kind of maps the body onto the mind.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So often I will get people to breathe into it, to put some pressure over the area, sometimes tapping over it makes a difference. So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to change the brain's representation of that alarm, which is held in what's called the insular cortex. The insular cortex is a part of the brain that kind of maps the body onto the mind.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So it also links into the default mode network. So if your body has this sense of alarm, it goes up to your brain, enters the right side of the brain first, right insula, and the right insula sends a message to the default mode network, we're in trouble. And then this whole default mode network thing, machinery starts up, and it goes into this loop.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So it also links into the default mode network. So if your body has this sense of alarm, it goes up to your brain, enters the right side of the brain first, right insula, and the right insula sends a message to the default mode network, we're in trouble. And then this whole default mode network thing, machinery starts up, and it goes into this loop.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So it also links into the default mode network. So if your body has this sense of alarm, it goes up to your brain, enters the right side of the brain first, right insula, and the right insula sends a message to the default mode network, we're in trouble. And then this whole default mode network thing, machinery starts up, and it goes into this loop.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And part of the default mode has this sort of self-appraisal, self-worrying part of it. It's protective, so you get into this loop, and that's why I call it the... And anybody who's dealt with anxiety, and I know you have, and it's stuck around for hours at a time, You're in this kind of autopilot loop that I believe is in the default mode network.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And part of the default mode has this sort of self-appraisal, self-worrying part of it. It's protective, so you get into this loop, and that's why I call it the... And anybody who's dealt with anxiety, and I know you have, and it's stuck around for hours at a time, You're in this kind of autopilot loop that I believe is in the default mode network.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And part of the default mode has this sort of self-appraisal, self-worrying part of it. It's protective, so you get into this loop, and that's why I call it the... And anybody who's dealt with anxiety, and I know you have, and it's stuck around for hours at a time, You're in this kind of autopilot loop that I believe is in the default mode network.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And we need to pull you out of that default mode network. And we do things by improving your anterior cingulate cortex, which I call the Goggins cortex because it's the self-discipline cortex. It's the ability to say, hey, you right now are drowning in worry. And what we need to do is we need to change your focus from internal

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And we need to pull you out of that default mode network. And we do things by improving your anterior cingulate cortex, which I call the Goggins cortex because it's the self-discipline cortex. It's the ability to say, hey, you right now are drowning in worry. And what we need to do is we need to change your focus from internal

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And we need to pull you out of that default mode network. And we do things by improving your anterior cingulate cortex, which I call the Goggins cortex because it's the self-discipline cortex. It's the ability to say, hey, you right now are drowning in worry. And what we need to do is we need to change your focus from internal

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

This is what I was saying earlier about why we're in such difficult shape in the world because when we put our focus externally, it feels good when we blame somebody else, but we're just creating more alarm in the long run. So it's really finding this alarm when you're worried. this is coming from your body. It's not coming from your mind. Your mind is a symptom. It's not the underlying cause.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

This is what I was saying earlier about why we're in such difficult shape in the world because when we put our focus externally, it feels good when we blame somebody else, but we're just creating more alarm in the long run. So it's really finding this alarm when you're worried. this is coming from your body. It's not coming from your mind. Your mind is a symptom. It's not the underlying cause.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

This is what I was saying earlier about why we're in such difficult shape in the world because when we put our focus externally, it feels good when we blame somebody else, but we're just creating more alarm in the long run. So it's really finding this alarm when you're worried. this is coming from your body. It's not coming from your mind. Your mind is a symptom. It's not the underlying cause.