Reduce Anxiety by 81% With This 5-Step Process | Dr. Caroline Leaf
episodePreviously titled “How to Rewire Your Mind in 63 Days | Dr. Caroline Leaf” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 12, 2026
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What is the difference between the mind and the brain?
I love that you're in this field of understanding the mind brain connection and how it plays into our thoughts and our emotions, our feelings, our mental health and everything else that's happening in our lives. My first question is, What is the difference between the mind and the brain? And does the brain control the mind or does the mind control the brain?
You've asked one of my favorite questions there. That's a really great place to start. I've got some props. Is that okay? Can I use some props to show you?
Show me. Show me. Explain. I need to understand in a simplified way.
Okay, so here's a brain, not a real one, in a skull. And the terminology for about the last 40 years is that the mind and the brain have been used interchangeably.
How does the mind control the brain?
So most people think when you talk mind, you're talking brain, and when you're talking brain, you're talking mind. And most of the popular literature, even the scientific literature that the media tends to put out, talks about how the brain produces thoughts or the brain produces the mind. But your brain actually can't do anything on its own. So if you did, and if I was holding up this, if this was a real brain and I just took it out of someone's head, which I wouldn't do, but if it was bleeding and whatever, and you looked at this brain, we could stare at this all day long, but it would never do anything. So what is the difference between a dead brain and yours and mine and the listeners and the viewers is that you are actually thinking, feeling and choosing.
You're alive and your aliveness is your mind. And your mind is this ability that of what you're doing right at this moment as you're listening to me, you are processing the auditory sound waves, the electromagnetic light waves through your ability to think and feel and choose, which is mind. So your mind is like processing, unique, brilliant processing field, gravitational field around and through your brain and body. And you convert what you're hearing and seeing into actual meaning. And that meaning is formed from trees that you actually grow into your brain. So 400 billion actions per second, you're using your mind to translate auditory and visual signals into protein tree-like structures in your brain to make sense of what I'm saying.
And then each new thing that I say, you're growing more and more. And everything I'm saying is in the root section because it's the source of the information. And the tree trunk and the branches are your interpretation of what I'm saying. And you're linking it to other existing, whatever I'm triggering at the moment that you know about whatever in your life related to a subject. And that keeps going. And that's what we do all the time. Your mind is always with you and your mind works through the brain and the brain then responds. So here's a little model. So your mind is the gravitational field and this is not woo-woo science this is hardcore nobel prize winning science that this discovery of the gravitational field in fact einstein spoke about it back in the early 20th century how we each human has this gravitational field this electromagnetic field around us
And that is basically through us. And when you die, that's not there anymore. And that's the thing that's kind of keeping you alive. And that's the thinking, feeling, choosing, the psychological version. And the science-y version is this gravitational field. So it's a little bit like a magnet. This is a super easy way to understand it. If you imagine a piece of white paper and you put a whole lot of iron filings on the paper, you may have done this at school. And then you bring a magnet and you put that in the middle of this mountain of iron filings. And suddenly you've got this beautiful electromagnetic field. the iron filing arranges itself into this field around the magnet. So you can't see the electromagnetic field, but you can only see it because it's invisible, but the iron filings follow the tracing of the field and therefore you can see it.
So the relationship between the magnet and the field
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the difference between the mind and the brain?
0:00–0:43
2
How does the mind control the brain?
0:43–4:39
3
What role do traumatic experiences play in mental health?
4:39–9:02
4
How can we manage our minds effectively?
9:02–51:02
5
What does Dr. Caroline Leaf say about the 21-day myth in mental health?
51:02–51:55
6
How can we effectively rewire our minds in 63 days?
51:55–53:26
7
What role does self-regulation play in mental health?
53:26–56:15
8
How can parents support their children's mental health?
56:15–1:41:44
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