Emily McDonald
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2 Jun
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So they all kind of work hand in hand, right?
Like the brain is a part of the central nervous system.
We've got the peripheral nervous system as well.
So these two work hand in hand.
But I think that, you know, through processes like
meditation and practicing mindfulness meditation we can start to become aware of these patterns and build the awareness of them and actually begin to heal these things so that we maybe have more agency over these choices and in those moments where you're waking up or maybe for example you have this habit of eating unhealthy foods and you're always doing that
If you're opening up the fridge and you're really hungry and you're really stressed, so your impulse control is not as strong when you're stressed or tired, and you're opening the fridge and there's a dessert or there's a salad, it's like your nervous system, if that's a part of your identity to always be eating unhealthy foods, then your nervous system probably would subconsciously motivate you to go and eat that food.
dessert or the unhealthy snack or whatever it is.
But when you kind of practice mindfulness and you kind of expand that gap where you feel the desire and the motivation, but you can actually kind of override it, that's when you can start to choose differently.
And I always say you're always doing one of two things, reinforcing your current reality or creating a new one.
And just from the kind of neuroplasticity perspective, right?
Like you're always either
strengthening the pathways you've always strengthened in your brain or lighting up new ones and strengthening new pathways in your brain that can then help you build a new reality so yeah I think that we are always kind of being subconsciously motivated and we're always moving in the direction of our focus we're always moving in the direction of our identity because our identity is our destiny but so yeah I think
To answer your question, yes, but we do have agency to kind of change what those subconscious motivations and desires are.
I think it's only harder if you don't have a super clear vision of the future reality.
And this is where I think practicing the art of, I call it identity shifting, but sort of constructing that version of you that has it all, I think is the most important thing.
Like everybody has a to-do list, but how many people have a to-be list?
Like, do you know who you're being called to become?
And I always think, you know, in every great movie or book, there's this hero's journey.
It's like they don't achieve the goal as a version of them who started.
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