Brain Fact Friday on ”Using Neuroscience to Repattern Our Brain”

<p>DID YOU KNOW that research from the Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Germany, led by neuroscientist John Dylan-Haynes has shown that the decisions we make daily to act on something, begins “automatically and without involvement of our consciousness”<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a> up to 7 seconds BEFORE we take the action we are thinking about? I learned this from Adele Spraggon,<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> the author of Shift, in this week’s interview #184, while talking about her 4 STEP re-patterning process to break habits for an improved 2022 and it got me thinking about how we could use and understand this brain fact to take our results to new heights, especially as we are preparing for a New Year.</p> <p>If you are like me, and have ever done something and then wondered “why did I just do that?” then this episode is for you!</p> <p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast for BRAIN FACT FRIDAY and EPISODE #185 on “Using Neuroscience to Repattern Our Brain.” For those new, or returning guests, welcome back! I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments.</p> <p>This week’s Brain Fact Friday took me back to the late 1990s, when I worked in the personal development industry<a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a> and first learned about how our results were all determined by our thoughts, feelings and actions. I’ll put an image I want you to see in the show notes.</p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p>I used to have this picture taped to my wall so I could see it every day from the speaker I worked with. I’m sure he used to carry it around when he would speak to people one on one, explaining that our thoughts come first. We think an idea (I really want this goal) and then we add emotion or feeling to this g