Foundational Neuroscience Principles to Live Free
Foundational Neuroscience Principles to Live Free presented by Karen Tibbitts.
November 14, 2023
Notes:
Neuro-empowerment - to act and not be acted upon - live in an elevated flow state - agency is power
3 Powers: focus, meaning, action
Brain: receive stimulus (input); apply map (program); determine action (output)
Maps: belief system - how we perceive and interpret the world, how we meet our needs
Healthy and unhealthy maps
Six human needs: Certainty, variety, love & connection, significance, growth, & contribution
Examining our need fulfillment
Confined state - fight or flight or freeze - looks like stress, fear, scarcity, loss of power, past failures, etc.
Triggered - meaning a map has been triggered in our brain
Costs of confined state - give up access to 3 powers - tries to meet the six human needs externally, limited brain power
Free state: unhindered by limiting beliefs, empowered by limitless potential, energized - looks like challenge & opportunity, we see what we do have, faith, curiosity, abundance, endless possibilities, clarity
Reticular Activating System (RAS) - absorbing everything around us - filters through our brain -
Prime your brain in the morning with gratitude - creates opportunities for the brain -
Goal: to raise awareness of being in a confined state - raise awareness of maps getting triggered
Can still fight, flight, or fright in a free state - can find a better solution or choice in a free state - more access to the brain
3 key skills for maximizing time in free state: get back to free state; catch the flip, maintain free state
Stress is good for our brain—it’s the duration that isn’t good
Creating a vision statement using the worksheet
Once you know what you want, you will bump into maps
Doesn’t have to be work-related — can be something such as wanting more joy and peace or wanting to have more patience - or respectful communication with others.
Will see this in President Nelson’s 2016 talk - Joy and Spiritual Survival
What you feed your brain before you go to bed stays in your brain - 30 minutes before you go to bed, focus on how you flipped your brain/attitude -
Reframe or reframe - look at brain and heart -
Hack - 8-hour working day - get the hard thing done during the first two hours of the working day
Sometimes it helps to look at worse case scenario
Questions to ask yourself from Byron Katie
Is it true?
Is it 100 percent true?
Who am I because of that thought
Who am I without that thought
What is the turnaround?
Circumstances are always neutral until you put a thought into it
Language defines our experience