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Mind reset quotes9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I would argue that sleep is by far the most powerful reset you have for your brain. Here are a few simple yet effective ways to push the reboot button. If you think of your genetics as the computer’s hardware, and your physical, mental, and emotional environments as software that impact its performance, suddenly changing patterns seems much simpler. In fact, the environment can impact and change your genes. As Simon Gregory, an associate professor of medical genetics and codirector of the Duke Epigenetics and Epigenomics Program, explains, not everything about how your genes operate is programmed at birth. Some things are genetic, some are environmental. Like most things, the brain involves both nature and nurture. These first whispers that lead you to think differently are powerful, and like an itch that must be scratched, once you start to wonder, you become primed to take action to press the reset button. Maybe your perfectionism is bordering on obsession or perhaps an opinion you have had since childhood has been disproven by something you have heard or read or witnessed. The first step to rebooting is recognizing that something about the way your brain processes isn’t supporting you to live your life the way you want to. The trick to this is knowing how to press the reset button and get a fresh start. The fabulous thing about the fantastic elasticity of your brain is its ability to “reboot” and remove patterns, bad habits, biases, and limits that no longer serve you. Have an addictive personality? Many believe this is predetermined by your genetics. ![]() This process is called neuroplasticityand every repetition of a thought or emotion can reinforce a neural pathway that hardwires the way you form your beliefs, shape your likes and dislikes, create limits that you place on yourself, and reinforce the conscious and unconscious biases you have.įor example, don’t like cilantro? Many who don’t believe it has to do with their taste buds and outside their realm of control. Throughout your life, your brain is being shaped by experience. ![]() The trick to this is knowing how to press the reset button. The elasticity of your brain is its ability to “reboot” and remove patterns, habits, biases, and limits that no longer serve you. ![]()
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