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John Assaraf

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

whenever there's any real or potential immediate danger or danger coming up that can cause you to get hurt mentally, emotionally, physically, financially, spiritually, any real or imagined scenario where this is so important right here, you might be embarrassed, ashamed, ridiculed, judged, rejected, unloved, or disappointed.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So when you're getting ready to go up on stage, and let's say you've done this a few times, you feel confident, right? You know what you're saying, but there's another part of your brain that says, well, what if they don't receive my message the way I want it? What if I forget something? What if, and we usually will place a what if negative

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So when you're getting ready to go up on stage, and let's say you've done this a few times, you feel confident, right? You know what you're saying, but there's another part of your brain that says, well, what if they don't receive my message the way I want it? What if I forget something? What if, and we usually will place a what if negative

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So when you're getting ready to go up on stage, and let's say you've done this a few times, you feel confident, right? You know what you're saying, but there's another part of your brain that says, well, what if they don't receive my message the way I want it? What if I forget something? What if, and we usually will place a what if negative

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

in the subconscious that gives the electrical signal to release the neurochemicals of stress, which is cortisol or epinephrine or adrenaline. So all of a sudden our heart starts to beat, we start to narrow our focus and our brains think about all the what if negative stuff.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

in the subconscious that gives the electrical signal to release the neurochemicals of stress, which is cortisol or epinephrine or adrenaline. So all of a sudden our heart starts to beat, we start to narrow our focus and our brains think about all the what if negative stuff.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

in the subconscious that gives the electrical signal to release the neurochemicals of stress, which is cortisol or epinephrine or adrenaline. So all of a sudden our heart starts to beat, we start to narrow our focus and our brains think about all the what if negative stuff.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

And then what happens is we focus on that negative possibility that might happen in the future, but we're feeling the neurochemistry of it right now. So I've often said there isn't a person alive that's afraid of public speaking. Nobody's afraid of public speaking. They're afraid of what might happen if they speak in public and they're embarrassed, ashamed, ridiculed, judged, rejected, accepted.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

And then what happens is we focus on that negative possibility that might happen in the future, but we're feeling the neurochemistry of it right now. So I've often said there isn't a person alive that's afraid of public speaking. Nobody's afraid of public speaking. They're afraid of what might happen if they speak in public and they're embarrassed, ashamed, ridiculed, judged, rejected, accepted.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

And then what happens is we focus on that negative possibility that might happen in the future, but we're feeling the neurochemistry of it right now. So I've often said there isn't a person alive that's afraid of public speaking. Nobody's afraid of public speaking. They're afraid of what might happen if they speak in public and they're embarrassed, ashamed, ridiculed, judged, rejected, accepted.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

That's what they're actually moving away from. Well, what if I shared with you that in that nanosecond, the chemicals that are released will only last in your body for 90 seconds if you just stay present and focused on releasing the energy, the energy in motion. Think about it. Chemicals are released in your blood. It changes the vibrational field of your body.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

That's what they're actually moving away from. Well, what if I shared with you that in that nanosecond, the chemicals that are released will only last in your body for 90 seconds if you just stay present and focused on releasing the energy, the energy in motion. Think about it. Chemicals are released in your blood. It changes the vibrational field of your body.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

That's what they're actually moving away from. Well, what if I shared with you that in that nanosecond, the chemicals that are released will only last in your body for 90 seconds if you just stay present and focused on releasing the energy, the energy in motion. Think about it. Chemicals are released in your blood. It changes the vibrational field of your body.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

That's why you say, I feel stressed. I feel anxious. I feel worried. I feel, right? The feeling is our awareness of what's happening in our body. Well, what we know from a science perspective is that means that the sympathetic is the automatic reactive stress system. The polar opposite of that is the calm to respond system.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

That's why you say, I feel stressed. I feel anxious. I feel worried. I feel, right? The feeling is our awareness of what's happening in our body. Well, what we know from a science perspective is that means that the sympathetic is the automatic reactive stress system. The polar opposite of that is the calm to respond system.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

That's why you say, I feel stressed. I feel anxious. I feel worried. I feel, right? The feeling is our awareness of what's happening in our body. Well, what we know from a science perspective is that means that the sympathetic is the automatic reactive stress system. The polar opposite of that is the calm to respond system.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So how do Navy SEALs get trained to stay calm under pressure or firefighters or astronauts or athletes at the Olympics? How do they learn that in these stressful situations where those neurochemicals are rushing wild, How do they use that neurochemistry as their fuel to succeed? Well, most people are not aware that if they take, and I call this take six, calm the circuit.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So how do Navy SEALs get trained to stay calm under pressure or firefighters or astronauts or athletes at the Olympics? How do they learn that in these stressful situations where those neurochemicals are rushing wild, How do they use that neurochemistry as their fuel to succeed? Well, most people are not aware that if they take, and I call this take six, calm the circuit.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So how do Navy SEALs get trained to stay calm under pressure or firefighters or astronauts or athletes at the Olympics? How do they learn that in these stressful situations where those neurochemicals are rushing wild, How do they use that neurochemistry as their fuel to succeed? Well, most people are not aware that if they take, and I call this take six, calm the circuit.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

And if I take slow, very, very slow, deep breath in through my nose, fill up my diaphragm, fill up my lungs, And then if I take my focus on my lips, and as I'm breathing out, I pretend there's a straw in my mouth, and I breathe it out as slowly as I can. If I do that five or six times, take 60 to 90 seconds at most, we can actually in an fMRI machine,