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Dr. Tara Swart

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937 total appearances

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

your relationship pattern will stay the same and you'll reinforce it further with more breakups and more, you know, sort of choices of partners aren't ideal for you. The third one is the magnetic desire that I already discussed, which means that it has to be really authentic to you, but also aligned in simple terms in your head, your heart and your gut. But

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

In the source, I talk about six ways of thinking, which are logical, emotional, physical, intuitive, motivational and creative. So if you think of something that you want and you ask yourself in six different questions, you know, why do I want this logically? Why do I want it intuitively? And you can get a really good answer to those.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

In the source, I talk about six ways of thinking, which are logical, emotional, physical, intuitive, motivational and creative. So if you think of something that you want and you ask yourself in six different questions, you know, why do I want this logically? Why do I want it intuitively? And you can get a really good answer to those.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

And it's likely that, you know, you will be able to manifest that. Then there's patience, which has to do with neuroplasticity. So until we had sophisticated scanning technologies, a lot of this work, cognitive science work, was all thought to be psychological rather than neurological. So it would kind of be like, oh, you know, Jay, you're not mentally strong enough. You gave up too quickly.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

And it's likely that, you know, you will be able to manifest that. Then there's patience, which has to do with neuroplasticity. So until we had sophisticated scanning technologies, a lot of this work, cognitive science work, was all thought to be psychological rather than neurological. So it would kind of be like, oh, you know, Jay, you're not mentally strong enough. You gave up too quickly.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

And it would kind of infer an intangible psychological weakness that is kind of your fault. And I think that's another criticism of manifestation as well, that if it doesn't work, then there's something wrong with you.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

And it would kind of infer an intangible psychological weakness that is kind of your fault. And I think that's another criticism of manifestation as well, that if it doesn't work, then there's something wrong with you.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

If you understand that it's actually physical work, when you're changing something, when you're striving for something, you're actually connecting up neurons or nerve cells in your brain that weren't connected previously. You may even be growing new nerve cells from little embryonic baby nerve cells that then connect up with ones that already exist.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

If you understand that it's actually physical work, when you're changing something, when you're striving for something, you're actually connecting up neurons or nerve cells in your brain that weren't connected previously. You may even be growing new nerve cells from little embryonic baby nerve cells that then connect up with ones that already exist.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

And you may also be adding an insulating coat around existing neural pathways to make them faster, to make them more efficient. So the patient's piece is because a lot of hard work goes on, You know, that feeling of I'm trying to manifest, but nothing's happening.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

And you may also be adding an insulating coat around existing neural pathways to make them faster, to make them more efficient. So the patient's piece is because a lot of hard work goes on, You know, that feeling of I'm trying to manifest, but nothing's happening.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

That's in the patient's piece, because when you get to a critical mass of neurons that have created a new pathway that is stronger than the pathway you had before. So let's say it's just the things like that never happened for me pathway changes to a, well, actually I've seen Jay do it. So maybe it could happen for me pathway. That takes a lot of effort.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

That's in the patient's piece, because when you get to a critical mass of neurons that have created a new pathway that is stronger than the pathway you had before. So let's say it's just the things like that never happened for me pathway changes to a, well, actually I've seen Jay do it. So maybe it could happen for me pathway. That takes a lot of effort.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

But once you get to the critical mass of enough neurons, suddenly it feels like everything's easy and everything's manifesting. And I do feel like people have to get a taste of that before, you know, at least once with a quick win to have the courage to take it to the next level.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: If You’re Feeling Stuck Use These 4 Methods To ACTUALLY Manifest What You Really Want (Ft. Roxi Nafousi and Dr. Tara Swart)

But once you get to the critical mass of enough neurons, suddenly it feels like everything's easy and everything's manifesting. And I do feel like people have to get a taste of that before, you know, at least once with a quick win to have the courage to take it to the next level.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Most Shared Moment: Neuroscientist Reveals 4 Hacks to Rewire Your Brain For Growth & Success! - Dr Tara Swart

So the first one is myelination and anyone who does a lot of sport who repeats a certain, you know, weight training will understand that that's what's happening in their muscles. You know, when I said, you know, you come here pretty much every day and you sit with someone and you interview them and you're really great at asking questions.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Most Shared Moment: Neuroscientist Reveals 4 Hacks to Rewire Your Brain For Growth & Success! - Dr Tara Swart

So the first one is myelination and anyone who does a lot of sport who repeats a certain, you know, weight training will understand that that's what's happening in their muscles. You know, when I said, you know, you come here pretty much every day and you sit with someone and you interview them and you're really great at asking questions.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Most Shared Moment: Neuroscientist Reveals 4 Hacks to Rewire Your Brain For Growth & Success! - Dr Tara Swart

That's like something you're super good at that because you repeat it, it becomes like a superpower. And that means that what's happening there is myelination. So myelin is a fatty substance that coats some neural pathways and those pathways become fast pathways. Now, there's a reason from evolution why we have some fast pathways and some slow pathways.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Most Shared Moment: Neuroscientist Reveals 4 Hacks to Rewire Your Brain For Growth & Success! - Dr Tara Swart

That's like something you're super good at that because you repeat it, it becomes like a superpower. And that means that what's happening there is myelination. So myelin is a fatty substance that coats some neural pathways and those pathways become fast pathways. Now, there's a reason from evolution why we have some fast pathways and some slow pathways.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Most Shared Moment: Neuroscientist Reveals 4 Hacks to Rewire Your Brain For Growth & Success! - Dr Tara Swart

And the reason is that if you put your hand in the fire, your reflex to snatch your hand out is a fast pathway. But your pain reflex is a slow pathway, because if you were incapacitated by pain, the minute you put your hand in the fire, you wouldn't be able to get away from it. One of the mechanisms of neuroplasticity is becoming even better at something that you're really good at.