“Your brain will play games with you,” says neuroscientist and psychologist Albert Mukaiber.
In this week’s episode of the Mental Health Podcast, Mental Lee Yours, Albert teaches us how our brains “reset reality” in weird ways. All in the form of an attempt to understand a strange and confusing world.
He said this could lead to patterns of prejudice, anxiety, and unhappy thoughts that are not important to our mental health.
Good news: just being there to know About how our brain works, and knowing that our thoughts and emotions are not as simple as we might expect can make a positive difference.
And even better news: we can use this knowledge about weird tricks on our brains to our advantage.
“This is the subject of my book. Your brain is spinning around you,” Albert Yvette and Ellen shared on this week’s episode. “This is an introduction to how our brain restores reality. For example, listeners hear our voice in the brain, not the ears, and readers read us in the brain, not the eyes.
“Our senses are just receptors on and off information that trigger electrical signals generated by the brain.
“There are some things that can happen between these perceptual mechanisms that can trick us for better and sometimes for worse.”
One of the “bad” tricks our brains play is how the emotions of stress and anxiety shape our perception of the world.
“Our brain constantly reshapes reality,” says Albert. But the way we create reality can vary, for example, depending on the condition of our body.
For example, when we are under stress, our brain goes into a pattern called hypervigilance and catastrophe: our brain thinks that it is dangerous and that everything is equally important and appropriate.
For example, if you’re stressed about a presentation at work, it might take 10 minutes to change the font size of your speech from 10 to 11, 12. And again at 11 p.m., dive into the details. This is the first change in the reproduction and interpretation of the universe.
“The second part is the catastrophe. Our brain is a predictable organ that is always trying to predict what will happen in order to prepare us.
When we are under stress, we predict that the future will not be so great. Imagine we failed, the presentation didn’t work, the boss isn’t happy with my work, or the date I was going to go on was rejected, or my friend was talking behind me, etc.
“All of these predictions are shaped by stress.”
Being suspicious of these automatic thoughts and questioning their relevance can be a game changer. We begin to realize that anxiety and depressing views of things may not be true. We are hopeful and positive, and everything can turn out well.
In this week’s episode, Albert details the tricks our brains perform and provides tips on how to solve them. You can listen to this on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Audioboom.
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Source: Metro
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