Billionaire’s Brain vs Your Brain: Morning Routine, Focus & Addiction | Dr Sweta | FO403 Raj Shamani

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Is the brain of a billionaire designed differently?

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Everything is all here. There is that spark in them. That whatever it is, I will solve it. What should my morning routine be like

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so that I become ultra successful?

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Our technique is here, Movers. M for meditation, O for oxygenation, V for visualization, E for exercise, R for reading something positive, S for scribing, writing out what is not serving you.

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Dr. Shweta Adatia, a leading neurologist and the founder of Limitless Brain Lab. She's also a best-selling author. Today, we'll learn from her how you can train your brain to be stress-free and successful. Can I rewire my brain? I'm not lazy. I'm excited to do a hard task.

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So, I'd say, rewire your reality, not your brain. If you work for the first 5 minutes, your brain will automatically get into gear.

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I want to understand if men and women have different brains.

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There is only one difference. Women have a big mouth, while men have a small mouth. That's why in a conversation, you'll only hear women's voice and the man is always shut down.

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Are there any tools or techniques to get out of pain, to get out of breakup?

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Awareness, then breathing and commitment to do all the daily habits, automatically the brain will get better. If the brain gets better, life will get better.

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For example, if someone is activating their brain 100%

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is it possible?

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I heard you're going to scan the brain as well.

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Yes, of course.

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We're going to scan it. Is it possible? And the audio experience of this show is available on Spotify, where you can follow us. Enjoy the show. Tell me, what should be my morning routine so that I can prime my brain in a way that I become ultra successful.

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Beautiful. And I lead a stress-free life. What should be my first thing to do in the morning? According to neuroscience, tell me. Beautiful. Amazing question. So, first we understand this from the fundamental of the brain.

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There are four waves in the brain. Alpha, beta, theta, gamma and delta. Delta happens when we sleep. When I am talking and you are talking, the fast wave is beta. So, you know my mind is engaged,

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your mind is engaged, your mind is engaged, question, problem, so it is called beta, fast rhythm. When I close my eyes, a slow rhythm comes which is alpha. When we sleep, it becomes delta, but before sleeping it comes which is theta. Now when we sleep, it becomes delta, and when we are about to wake up in the morning, people suddenly wake up in beta. They set an alarm, they you ran away. So you are on a neutral gear, and you made the car run in 5th gear.

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So what will happen to the car? Obviously, it will crank. It won't function properly. So the first hour, you go from your comfortable wave, delta to theta to alpha to beta. So this powerful phase between theta and alpha, if you hack it, it is very useful.

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So, what should you do first? Hack this theta and alpha. And how to hack that? Sit for 5 minutes, eyes closed. Go deeper into that thing. All your auto suggestions, visualizations,

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whatever you want to do in a day, in a week, in the next month, in a year, whatever you want to do, include it in that morning, in the week, in the next month, in the year, whatever you want to do, include it in that morning. This is the first thing to do in the morning. The first thing is to go to the sun.

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There is a very nice thing about it. The sunlight actually activates your suprachiasmatic nucleus. There is a nucleus in the brain which sets our circadian rhythm. Like you went to ancient times, in ancient wisdom, where the sun used to do Arrgh. So you are bowing down to the sun. The salutation for what?

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So that my supra-chiasmatic nucleus gets that raise. And my whole system gets kick-started. That is the very first thing that should be done. Caffeine should not come in the coming entire hour. That bedtime tea, bedtime coffee. What are you doing? Coffee is caffeine.

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It's a stimulant. It will give you beta. So already you came from delta to beta. Now you have added more beta. You have added more problems of your life. So it should be a very very dedicated routine.

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Of course, there is a huge science of waking up early. 45 minutes of Muhurat, 45, which we call Muhurat, 45 minutes before that, which we call Brahma Muhurat, it's a superfluous scientific this. Because when you wake up before sunrise, 45 plus 45, that is, before 90 minutes,

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all these chemical reactions are at their peak. So that's why you can harness the natural chemistry. Endorphins as well. So you don't need to take painkillers. You have already accessed them. So when we studied these peak performers,

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their daily, and a very interesting thing came to light. What is a habit? What is a ritual? And what is a routine? So ritual is, die hard. I will do this as a ritual.

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And what is a habit? So, ritual is die hard. I will do this as a ritual.

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Habit is autopilot. We won't say it's a ritual to brush. Because as soon as you brush, you get it in your hand. The brain doesn't have to think. The brain is not attending to that. It's happening by itself. So, the ritual you do, you do it with your full attention. So, their rituals were very powerful.

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And all the things I am saying about the first hour, they had integrated all of it. So, we thought that if we present all these things in a simple way, how the morning should be, then our technique came, MOVERS. M-O-V-E-R-S.

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M for meditation, O for oxygenation, V for visualization, E for exercise, R for reading something positive or affirmative. Because the subconscious is open. So put it in. And S for scribing, writing out what is not serving you. So we say catharsis, psychologically. Release it. So, this is the movers.

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In the first hour, doing so much sounds complicated.

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No, 5 minutes is enough. That's it. 5 minutes each. To go out in the sun won't take less than 5 minutes.

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Get up, go to the sun,

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do 5 minutes of breath work, and come back. Absolutely. Close your eyes and visualize. Visualization is super powerful. There was a study which was done. There were piano players.

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One physical group was playing the piano and the other was mentally rehearsing it. After 3 months, both the brains were studied. The people who were playing physically and the people who were imagining playing the keys, both the brains were similar.

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The growth of the brain their brains were similar. The growth of the brain cells was almost equal. Think about the role of visualization. There was again another study and I think if I am not mistaken it was a Harvard study to increase the power of the little finger. So there was one group which only imagined that my little finger is getting powerful.

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The other actually did some exercises. Again, three months of a follow up and the little finger's getting powerful. The other actually did some exercises.

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Again, three months of a follow up and the little finger's power was almost comparable. Insane believer. And I do this a lot. Every time I have a high stake meeting or speech or podcast or whatever.

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I sit down with myself or I just walk on my treadmill and while walking I'm just thinking about, okay, this is going to happen, this is going to happen, this is going to happen, this is what I'm doing, this is what not. Like everything is picture perfect for me. In fact, if I'm going to give a speech,

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I know where I'm going to put the first step on stage and then where to exit from there. Beautiful. I just visualize every little thing.

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Beautiful. Now what did you do? All your circuits, you primed it. All your chemicals already is prepared. Pre-prepared that yes, this is going to happen, this is going to happen. So, the brain has already done a scenario analysis.

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So, your stress will be lessened to significant effect. So, what we call sympathetic nervous system. If we have to do anything, there would be a little stress. So you stress. A little stress is good because you need it. Otherwise, you will come completely.

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So a little challenge is fine. But when it becomes too much, then obviously you start to feel nervous. Palpitations start to occur. Sweaty hands, palms. We have all taken exams. At that time, I wish someone would have explained us that take a few deep breaths, the work will be done.

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And we keep giving a lot of exams in medical. As you know, it's a never-ending process. But I think these fundamentals are very small, but powerful, as you rightly mentioned. How much is the power of visualization? Now, what people do is they make a board.

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Vision board. Vision board, vision board. I make it. But they don't bring the feeling. Like you said, you have to practice. It has to come within you often to build those circuits.

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First you become here, then you become there.

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Absolutely. Beautifully said. First here, then there.

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Tell me what am I doing wrong? I will tell you my. Absolutely. Tell me what am I doing wrong? I tell my morning routine. Tell me. Which 80% of the time I follow, 20% I am a lazy person. The first thing I do is I check my phone. That's the first.

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Because it wakes me up. Okay. That whatever notifications are there, whatever xyz things are. I use then I read something while I am in the bathroom.

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Perfect.

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Through phone only.

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Okay.

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Then I get up on my treadmill. I walk for 10-15 minutes.

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Beautiful.

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When I am walking for 10-15 minutes, then I see some motivational speeches or learning speeches. Something that I really really like. 15 minutes.

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Okay.

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And then straight to gym.

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OK.

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And then after coming from the gym, shower, breakfast, then come to work, and then my rest of the work starts.

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Beautiful.

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What should I do in this? Now changes in it. Those 15 minutes that my listeners give me, I get lost in that and visualize what I'm doing.

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Lovely. And sometimes it doesn't happen. Sometimes I get lost and I visualize what I am doing.

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And sometimes it doesn't happen. Sometimes I am so involved in what is happening, then I don't do anything else. Tell me how to fix it to make it better.

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First, let's do something about that delta beta alarm. You'll have to make sure that you are not getting up very suddenly. There have been many studies like this. Your heart rate rises, your blood pressure shoots up. Because it's sudden, right? So you shouldn't do anything sudden.

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It's jerking for the brain. So gradually, you'll have to find some alternative solution. Now we were talking about chronotype off studio. There are four chronotypes of sleep. But if I don't set an alarm, I won't be able to wake up.

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I know that.

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But the mind has a capacity that we never harness. You try it. The day prior, just tell your mind that look, I have to wake up at this time.

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And it works.

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It genuinely works.

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It genuinely works.

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And then you wonder, does it listen? Obviously, it listens.

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I call it in my notes. I call that principle pillow talk power. So I tell my pillow to wake me up at 8 in the morning.

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Correct.

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Wake me up in the morning. And I don't know what's the science behind it.

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I'll tell you.

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You're telling me. I don't, but it works.

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Yes.

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It wakes me up. I don't know how it happens, but it works.

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So see, that is called priming of your clock. Our body listens to us. First of all, when you see how many people have cured their cancers. How is that possible? And they talk about psycho-neuro-physio-immuno-endocrinology. Psycho-neuro-physio-immuno-endocrinology. It goes on for a long time. It starts with the mind, goes to the brain, goes to your hormone system,

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goes to your immunity and then it works like an entire axis. So, all your power, thought is the beginning for everything. Thought only converts into what? Mostly action. Mostly your repeated actions becomes what? Your character. Then slowly that becomes your destiny.

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But somewhere or the other, it starts with thought. So, thought is very important. So, if you tell that, you are priming that clock, that look, this is how I have to wake up, now it's your thing and if you do it just before sleeping,

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when you are in that theta state, because that is a suggestible state. In that state, if you follow the manifestation, they say that you have kept a water bottle, tell that water what you want to do and then drink that water. Essentially what you are trying to do is, you are giving a second line of this to the

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body that now I have ingested it.

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Does it work?

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I mean, you see all the experiments which has been done in that space, right? One is Dr. Rimoto's experiment, that's a very popular experiment, that when you talk to the water, the chemistry of that is changing. And there is something called the placebo effect. As a doctor, I always feel that I am curing migraines, but 40% of the people who are on placebo have also been cured.

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So how did they get cured? I am more interested in 40% than 60%. Imagine, without any medicine, even after giving you a sugar pill, you are getting cured. So what happened? There was a switch in the brain, there was a switch in the mind, which you just ignited, it just followed,

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it is a genie, it keeps doing its own thing, it has done its work. So yes, it is possible to prime the clock. So if you are able to do that pillow talk, wonderful. There is nothing like it, you know. That's one, number one. Second is, you said you check your mobile, you check all the notifications. Now, what happens is, sometimes it's pleasant,

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sometimes it's unpleasant, because you cannot control what people are doing. But you can control what you want to do. But I've gotten good at ignoring. Oh, very good.

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If you are... It doesn't affect me.

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Beautiful. Because you are Rajshamani. Not many people can do that. The moment they read that, their processing starts. Someone said this, someone said that. The brain has three layers.

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We can show it to the audience. According to me, it's a mathematical formula. This is the brain stem. I am breathing, my heart is beating. Everything is coming from the brain stem. Then once you go up above, that is the brainstem. So, I am breathing, my heart is beating, everything is coming from the brainstem. Then once you go up above, that is the reptilian brain. From an evolutionary perspective, which is still present in us,

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that is more also called the limbic brain or the emotional system. So, what does it do? It works like a scanner. Threat scanning. What will I do now? Self-doubt also creates that, oh, I have to fix this. So it's always in the state of, I have to fight, I have to flight, or I will run away. Fear, I'm always fearful of the things. Or freeze, I'll be just stuck there, what should I do now?

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So F, F, F, F, all Fs are here, fight, flight, fear and freeze are there. Now the biggest thing that we have been given is frontal cortex. The person who is able to hack the power of that frontal cortex, which we have already been given as humans, we have a bigger cortex, if you look at the rat's cortex, it is 7%. About chimpanzees, it is 11-12%. But humans have been given 40%.

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So it is given by some logic. Because that is where emotional control. So I call it all Cs. Emotional control, your commitment, your choices, your command, everything is there. What are you going to do?

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How do you connect the past and the future? How do you regulate yourself? If a threat comes, how do you convert a reaction into a response? So, you have made this over time. That's why you can ignore. But most people cannot. What do studies say? 80% of the time,

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we are only being controlled by the limbic system. Amygdala. Amygdala is a small little structure, almond shape, which is inside. Its job is to, you know, watchman, you can't go inside,

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you can't do this, what happened? Suddenly, 13 seconds it takes to convert into rage, anger. So, if you do that 13 seconds, and do that 13, even those 13 seconds, and even count from 13, then its power is over.

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It's like a bubble, it's all gone, out. But most people cannot do that. 80% of the times people still live in that limbic loop, rumination. They are thinking about the past, the cassette of the past is still playing. All the things run past by, and you can't leave that thought. If you can't catch that thought, then your random RAM is busy.

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90% of your RAM is occupied in something which is not serving you. So how will you think about the future? So that limbic loop has to be broken. So you are able to do it because you can ignore and that is the reason why you can this message is not important, this is not important. Whatever is positive for me, affirmative, something which is going to help me,

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you take that. And then you go on to your trade meal, which is your physical exercise, which should be the case.

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And then the gym.

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And the gym, which is strength building. And all the components of exercise should be there. Cross lateral training should be there. You know, wherever you are crossing your this because it is very important for the brain growth. Strength should be there, coordination. Now, when we do coordination exercises, it is very interesting. You stand on one leg, you assume that you stand for 30-40 seconds,

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you command your brain that I have to stand for 2 minutes, that will be done. So, coordination, also cerebellum, also is essentially connected to your command center. All are connected to your frontal lobe. So, the switch is there. So, that is great. So, your strength is building,

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coordination is also happening, your balance exercises are also happening, endurance is also happening. And muscle is everything. There is a very nice study which is published, published 2-3 weeks ago.

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The connection of hand grip is directly connected to your neuronal strength, to your memory. If you don't have a good grip, then likelihood of you getting dementia is more. Think about it.

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Yeah, you age faster if your grip is not there. Absolutely. But you said prefrontal cortex. Yes, absolutely. Right? And you said that maximum low is not strong. Yes.

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Because of this, all the things in the world let them affect themselves. Absolutely. And because of this, they are not able to become achievers in life

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or successful. Correct.

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Maybe they have a lot of potential but this part is not strong Now, a little bit goes back to your childhood also. In this, what has been given to someone? Everybody has the same way, the brain, the physiology. Everything is given well. Now a little bit goes back to your childhood also. 0 to 5 years is a critical window, a critical development period for the brain.

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Because the speed of growth of neurons is astronomical. 700 synaptic connections are being made per second in 0 to 3. And if we study the learning of that, the peak learning, the sensory learning, whatever I can process, I can see, I can hear, that happens in 3 years. And we think that the child is not understanding,

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the child is not understanding anything. So, the seeds of the prefrontal cortex development start from there, in 0 to 3. The seed of it starts there. So, the child's development is not like, many people will say that my child has left,

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or my work is over, it's not like that. Then there is another period which comes in between the age of 13 to 20. You can influence it a lot there too. Now, the interesting thing is that the age of voters is negotiating that it should not be 18.

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Because the frontal cortex is not fully developed then. So, you are not able to make a good choice. So, at that point, if you start habit building, you started to work on yourself. Then you are working a lot externally, but you are not working internally. The moment you start to work at that age, whatever you're listening to at this age, if you start building these kind of practices,

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then your frontal cortex remains sharp. Now, assume that you're between 13-18 years old. If you're that age and now you're 30, between 30 and 50.

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I'm 28.

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Perfect.

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And my audience is maximum in this age group. So, this is very important. 25-35 is the most important. Tell me. I will bracket it as 25-40.

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Okay, let's say that both of them were left out.

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Now that we are gone, we can't do anything.

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Now we have to start from the beginning. There is nothing wrong in it. Because of the neuroplasticity, the day you start working on the brain, plasticity is such a beautiful gift from God. You don't think that I have a hard-wired brain. I have genes like this.

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Blame everything. My genes were bad. My parents didn't raise me properly. Intergenerational trauma.

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They did everything.

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They did everything.

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I'm done.

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I won't do anything now. I'll just get angry at everyone. And my life will be cut in fight, flight, fear, freeze. But it's not like that. The day you decide, the day you commit that you want to build this frontal cortex strength, that is possible. The first stage is awareness. Are you aware about your limbic and frontal cortex?

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So, both of these work like a seesaw. If my limbic is on fire, fire, fire, I get angry at everything, I feel threatened, I cannot control my emotions, I fall in love. That's why it's called fall in love.

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I fall in love.

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Because that is what your limbic system is doing, right? And if you are constantly in that limbic, your frontal cortex is not working. But the moment your frontal cortex starts to work, your limbic goes down. So be aware. As you rightly mentioned, my car goes ahead of me. So what is my reaction? If somebody did something wrong to me

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How am I taking it? In my whole day, right from morning So do something called the day audit Audit your emotions Audit your actions Audit your responses

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Audit your relationships Audit your work, your profession When you come to the stage of awareness Then you understand that yes, I am in limbic or I use this a lot, so that is the first step now what is the second step after that

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start doing activities which is making it strong what comes in that, the very first thing which comes is all these four waves that I have told you alpha, beta, theta, delta, you have to practice all of them. If you ask anyone in the whole day, Raj, if you ask anyone between 25 to 40,

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and I can say this with confidence, how many times a day do you sit with your eyes closed? People's answer is shocking. Some say never. Some say maybe under a minute. Some say maybe I go to pray once in a while. So you are not building your alpha.

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If I want to build my biceps, I don't look at the biceps. I have to work for it. Same thing, if you want to work for a calm response, a balanced response, a frontal cortex which is allowing your emotions to be under control, you want a good alpha. You want a very good theta because theta is giving you creativity,

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vision and future. So, what do you have to do for theta? You can't do it with your eyes closed. You have to go deeper. That is meditation. Suppose you find meditation a very big word and hoola. So, do you listen to music that can make theta?

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Do you live with people? Because you imbibe the qualities of the people that you live with, right? Which we call mirror neurons. If I come to the studio like this, I can transfer that. Its emotions are contagious. So are you living in that environment?

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Now you live in an environment of anger all of a sudden. And you say, no, I want to make you Theta. How will it happen? Not possible. So then you have to change your environment. So you have to change your environment, you have to change your daily habits. Now suppose you take alcohol,

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smoke, have nicotine, have caffeine and then you say, no, no, I want Alpha Theta. Now how will you be able to make Alpha Theta with so much beta? So how

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important is addiction to you? You have to let go of all these things. You have to let go of something. If we hold ice, after a time, we get jealous. If a small child holds it, then mom will say, leave it.

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Why are you holding it? So we want to hold it and then keep complaining that my brain doesn't work. How will it work? So you said alpha, beta, theta, gamma, and delta.

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Okay. Delta will come with good sleep.

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Yes.

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That is one.

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Yes.

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For alpha, if I have to train my brain a lot, I have to increase the power of my brain. So how long should I sit with myself every day?

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At least 5 minutes. 5 minutes eyes closed. Is it like the more you sit, the better? Absolutely. Tell me an ideal, if I have to do it today.

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What is the ideal?

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Either you go to grounding. That is the best way to build the alpha. What is grounding? Grounding is just walking barefoot on the grass, walking barefoot on the beach. Because the moment you touch the earth,

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it automatically calms down.

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You are saying there are two ways to build alpha. Yes. First is, I sit at home, anywhere.

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Anywhere.

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And what do I do with my eyes closed?

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You don't have to do anything. That is the beauty of it. Nothing. Let the thoughts flow. You are just sitting with your eyes closed. You are sitting and you are just watching your thoughts flow. Whatever is happening, that is fine.

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No problem, it's fine. Totally fine.

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So, this is alpha. Yes. The second way was to walk barefoot on the ground.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Without thinking about anything. Can I listen something while walking? Yes, there is something specific music which are being created. So, this music as a frequency, you change the frequency of the brain. Give me an example of music. So I will tell you Limitless Brain Lab has collaborated with Mauna TV Germany and we have made all the pieces of music lab tested.

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For example, I am not able to relax. No matter how much I do, and the number of times you tell the brain to relax, it will do the opposite. Because you have never done that, so the brain is not primed for it. So, you are the binaural beats of alpha. So, binaural of alpha frequency, which means I am giving different frequency

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in one ear and different in the other. It gets cancelled and gives me alpha. So, that you can use it for five minutes. Like we take pill, we get headache. So, take this five minute pill. Listen to it. It is a frequency and it will help you to get into the groove. There are so many companies.

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Raj, I did my MBA in Cambridge. So we used to go on field visits. I've been to all these company campuses. So I found one company very interesting. They have a headphone and a big screen in a corner. And you pick it up and it says stress, rejuvenation, focus.

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So I thought this is our brain's work. So you just pick it up, 5 minutes you spend there because when you watch a frequency and when you tune in the audio, the brainwaves frequency can be modulated. So we call this neuromodulation. So big companies are already doing hacks for neuromodulation. So, big companies are already doing Neuromodulation hacks. Already this is happening.

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So, it is very easy. There is nothing impossible for the brain. In fact, we are doing the trials on the children on Limitless Brain Lab. There is autism, autistic spectrum, attention deficit disorder. You can modulate their brain with light and sound. So it is all there. You know, these are hacks. Very simple hacks.

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Can I listen to a podcast while...

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Yes. Now depends on what is it doing to you. Okay. So there is something where you get consumed and something where you create. So is it an inspirational value for you? Is what you have to do matching? So for example, for me, anything related to neuroscience is helping me build my brain. But anything which is completely, let's say, you are consuming something else,

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it is not helping me. Just by sitting for 15 minutes a day, I can improve my brain's alphabet.

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What will happen in my life by improving the alphabet?

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Cognition, speed of reasoning, problem solving. Now, what does anyone need in life? If we see, to be successful, it's a simple thing, what do you need to be successful? A magician's idea.

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What does a person need?

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So, what comes after that? His implementation, which is rock solid. Resilience, because failure is a sure thing. One try, two try, three try. how many times I tried to change the brain, nothing happened, back to rumination, back to depression, then failure will come, the strength to get out of that failure is resilience

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and then continuing that journey without giving up. This is the formula of success, and all these four steps are related to the brain. Why do only few, if it was so simple, then why only few people are successful and why lot of people struggle? Because at these, whenever this frontal lobe comes, whenever situations come, you fail in that,

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then you are not able to face it. So, success essentially is how well you have trained your brain. So, when you have made it by doing all these practices, it is a rock solid circuit. If you fail tomorrow, what will a successful person say? Oh, it was a stepping stone to something else.

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If this didn't happen, we will find some other way. So, that is how the thinking then happens. So, you are bending your ability to think and to challenge and look at a problem.

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That is success. This is all trained by alpha.

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Everything is trained by building the frontal lobe. In frontal lobe, you are talking about alpha. Alpha increases focus, problem solving skills, challenge ability, overall cognitive ability. Cognitive ability increases. That is one.

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Now let's come to beta.

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How to make it strong? So beta is useful for problem solving. Cognitive abilities. That is one. Now let's come to beta. How to make it strong? So beta is useful for problem solving. There should be a small beta in the front which is allowing you to engage in a task and activity. So like we said, focus and concentration exercises

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builds your good beta.

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Okay.

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Is there anything else that people can do at home? Tratak is very easy. I mean anyone can do it. You just have to do it with the light. So, first I have to sit for 5-10 minutes with my own thoughts.

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Then I have to do that.

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So, first you finish the tratakhanav. See, you have to go with the formula. Either you go from beta to delta or from delta to beta. So, if you are finishing beta, then you go to alpha, then you go to theta, then you go to Alpha, then you go to Theta, then you go to Delta. You have to fix these three only when you are conscious and aware. Either you do meditation first, then close your eyes and sit like this

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and then do Tratak. Largely, going from top to bottom is better. So you finish your Tratak and focus, then you get on to your meditation practice, then you get on a little deeper. So you go like this.

30:41

Interesting. And we missed the part. We were talking about how I can't wake up early in the morning. A lot of people can't wake up. And you told me in the beginning that there are 2-3 types. What are those types? Tell me that.

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I think you and I are the same. I can't wake up early either. Although my spiritual teachers are very early morning. And that's very scientific because as we said, cortisol, adrenaline, endorphins, all the best chemicals come in the morning. Your circuit is almost primed to think better, create better, function better. So early morning is definitely playing a role.

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So the chronotype is nothing but how is your clock primed. So there are few people who are lions. They can get up early in the morning. They find their most energy peak during 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock. Then there are bears, who wake up at 8 o'clock and get energy at 10 or 11 o'clock. So those are bears.

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And then there are some people who don't get energy till 3 or 4 o'clock. Then they stay there till midnight. They are like wolves. Okay, this is my type. And some are random. Sometimes they get energy, sometimes they don't. They don't know how their day is going.

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Those are dolphins. This chronotype is very simple. Anybody can, it's Dr. Bruce's study. So, anyone can do a sleep chronotype. Do a simple question. Now, I am a bear.

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So, sometimes people call me at 7 o'clock and ask me to tell them the solution. I tell them that I am a bear. Call me at 10 o'clock. Call me at 2 o'clock. So, because that is how you have kick-started your brain. That is how the brain thing comes.

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Now, the beauty is, can you shift these chronotypes? The answer is very much yes. So we don't have to remain that I am a bear so all my life I have to die as a bear, I lived as a bear. You can go into being a lion if you want to. Depends on which phase of your life you are in. Now I am in a phase of my life where I feel that no, I have to be sincere in my spiritual practices, I have to be sincere with my brain. I have to reach to wider audiences. I have to prepare my Ferrari. If you want to prepare your Ferrari, you can't put kerosene in it.

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Your Ferrari is your brain, right? You have to feed it well. You have to feed with all the right things. So, I think getting up is that feeding part of it.

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And then is it different that the lion, the chronotype, that wakes up at 5 in the morning, versus the wolf, who works 3-4 hours a day, or the bear, who works 10-11 hours a day, or the dolphins, who don't know when they get a good job, when they get sleepy, they sleep at any time, and wake up at any time.

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How successful will they be in life, is there any difference in that?

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There was a study which was done, If you match their successful people and their chronotype, then what they found is that people who are aware that this is my optimum utilization of the capacities and then they were matching as you rightly mentioned. So, their success was more. Most people are unaware, right? They don't know what is happening in my day.

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Life is going on. Life is not happening. You are not making life. Life is making you. So, not making life, life is making you So this is a very significant difference between when you take the control over Versus everything around takes the control over you

33:52

I remember a story, there was a young guy who was a very dashing 25 year old guy in Dubai He called his uncle, he was coming from a small village in Gujarat So uncle was like wow, he is in Dubai, he has a Ferrari. I will take you to Sheikh Zayed, future museum. He is showing a lot of things. The uncle is very happy to see the kid.

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The kid is riding in all the fashion, you know. Now, they are going, going, going, going and the car stops. There is an accident. The car stops. And the boy is perturbed. Oh my God! There is an accident, Ferrari, what will uncle think? Suddenly, he is sitting very happily, uncle is not bothered. So, he is saying, uncle, so much has happened, why are you not bothered?

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He said, son, you called me, I came from such a small village, beautiful, loved your car, the way you drove, we were going, we were all watching. I was thinking for a long time how will this stop? It stops like this. So in our life, there is a break inside and outside. Now most people walk with the outside break. They get tired. What happened?

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Suddenly they fell sick, got stressed, got burnt out. What happened? The got a break outside. What you need to do is understand the breaks inside. And that is through the frontal cortex. The power of the brain, the moment you harness that, everything becomes possible.

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Everything becomes potential. Everything is possible. Limitless potentials are there. 24 hours, everyone is the same. Everyone's physiology is the same. Everyone's capacity is the same. So, awareness. The first step in life is to understand.

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Understand all your habits, understand your performance, understand your power, and then start applying. I like your quote, try again and again and again and again. Which is all what life is all about.

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So, understand your chronotype. And if anyone wants to understand their chronotype, I will put a link. You can send me the test. I will put a link in the description. So that people can test it now. How long is the test? 5 minutes.

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Ok, in 5 minutes people will know whether it is a lion type sleeper, wolf type, bear type or dolphin type. Absolutely.

35:58

Amazing. And put another link because it is also very important that what is the fitness of your brain, what is the strength of your brain. Very, very simple thing. Depending on your lifestyle, your score may be very high, but try it.

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We will try what we know. So, brain fitness score decides how well you are taking care of your brain. I am sure people have taken kidney tests. I am sure everyone knows their hemoglobin. But does anyone know the capacity of their brain's fitness? So that is what the mission and vision of Limitless Brain Lab was.

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That what you can measure, you can manage. If you don't know, how will you manage? So, 5 minutes, literally 5 minutes. So, we have validated this. Thousands of people have done it. It's a very simple and easy test to do. But it tells us what changes I have to bring in my lifestyle.

36:49

Is it free?

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Yes, yes. The entire tool is free.

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So, give me that link. I will put it here in the description again. And we will check our mental fitness score or brain fitness. Amazing. Very interesting thing. Let's change gears. Because I want to understand that we were talking about brain power, morning routine. If I am activating my brain 100% for a person, is it possible?

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Great question. That movie Limitless, I took a pill and all my brain was activated. And I am fully capable.

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I activated my brain 100%.

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So, technically, let's put it that way. First, let's eliminate the myths. My brain only works for 5% and 10% is a myth. All your brain is always engaged. As I am looking at you, my visual cortex is engaged. If I hear a sound, my auditory cortex is engaged.

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If I have to move and take this, my kinesthetic system is also engaged. Now, if I don't see you, it won't go in my nose. I will still make sure that the coordination is such that I will be able to drink it. So, all the time the brain is working. But when we are talking about performance optimization, so that 40% which we said is all that, that is your mutual fund, the moment you will keep into it, compounding will happen and your growth of your life or whatever you want will happen.

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Two things, the frontal cortex plus multi-sensory challenges, now what we do is, mostly if you do this for a normal person, from point A to point B, you have to go to the office, you are going from the same route, eating the same food, doing the same thing, watching the same thing that is being shown on TV, going to the same bank, doing the same things. So, monotony actually kills the brain. So, if you want an optimized brain, then you need multi-sensory challenges. Now, I go to grocery shopping even after such a busy schedule.

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I tell my maid, no, I won't go. Why? You take the smell, you touch the thing, you are walking past an ally, there are so many people of different things. Because now you are constantly sensory challenges. So in our language, it is called neurobics. How you have aerobics, that is Neurobics. And very simply, let's say I have a desk of my own. I have a phone here.

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Change it in the next week. Change the left side. My brain has to change the entire circuit to get up from here to here. And that's it. Where I gave the opportunity to continuously work. One day, it comes when the-sensory is also prepared, frontal cortex is also prepared for it. Now you can bring any challenge. It will work.

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I read this about Neurobic very long time ago. Yes. And since then I have been doing left hand. Brush. Same thing I do. Yes.

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Morning is right, left. But now it has come to that position. I have been doing it for so many years. Now you have learnt. In fact, if I do it from the right, at night my brain thinks I am doing it from the left.

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Yes. It has gotten used to.

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But now you start mirror writing. I just met one major Vikram. Amazing young army officer. And he says that I do mirror writing. What does it mean? Exactly. So I was like, I had heard about reverse writing. What is mirror? So you write in reverse and when you look in the mirror, it becomes straight.

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That is called mirror writing. So Leonardo da Vinci...

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From left.

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From left, yes.

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So, in reverse, completely in reverse. Because you will only see straight in the mirror. So Leonardo da Vinci used to mirror read and mirror write. So somewhere the wiring of his brain was fit according to that. So now I told his brain was fit accordingly. So, I told him the story. I asked him why did you need to do mirror writing?

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What prompted you to do that? He says, I was to be posted in Siachen. And someone told me that if I don't do anything there, the brain power will be lost. Because obviously, it's a cold place and very difficult to even survive. He says, I took it up as a challenge. I will go there and learn mirror writing. I said, what a way to emulate the brain.

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So, now mirror writing in a beautiful way. Now, it is okay to go there. I am right-handed, I am doing mirror writing. He can do it with both hands. So, I think you and me should start learning that. After that, he felt that I can do it in English.

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Let me do it in Tamil. Let me do it in Hindi. So, this is the way you challenge the brain. So, as you keep increasing the level of challenges, as you said, now it became an automatic habit for you. The brain is understanding that now only the left will come.

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So, now I have to fire the same circuit. Leave it. Now do something else. Do something else. So, people who want to become successful and specifically your audience, as you said, is this 25 to 40. And I think success is the birthright for everybody. Everyone should be successful.

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There are a lot of people who are successful. Absolutely.

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They should work on personal growth. Absolutely. You should work on personal growth. And the brain is such an instrument. I tell a lot of my patients also that Mozart is singing. Mozart is the top musician, and the music is the best, and that is being transmitted through the radio.

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Now you are saying Mozart is not singing well. Have you fixed your radio? So, you have to fine tune your capacities, your brain. The moment that happens, everything around will transmit. Everything will happen.

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Success, relationship, what is life all about? There was a very nice study which was done. As I'm talking to you, all those studies are coming in my theater. So, that study was very interesting. So, we say that we do think 50 to 60 thousand thoughts a day. Now, a scientist thought that let's audit 50 to 60 thousand thoughts.

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Let's see what happens. So, he went out and shot some 22-23 thousand people's thought audit pattern that you keep on telling what is it and then we will accumulate it and see what happens. So when they entirely completed the study, they were shocked to see that it was the same thought over and over and over and over about the same thing. Finally, they came to three things in that study. People keep thinking about three things.

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So, what were those three things? Number one was relationship. Number two was work and money. Work-money profession. And number three was health. Now, you ask everyone.

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What goes on in everyone's mind all day long, something or the other goes on in these three. So, it is not like solving a lot of things. It is only solving one, two and three. Very few people in that study also thought what is my evolution,

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where I have come from spiritually. That was just actually single digit number. But largely people only had health, relationship and profession or work money.

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Wow! You know what's impressive to me and why I'm writing this down like exact line is a word. Figuring out full podcast from day one is just four pillars. We only talk about four things or we don't talk at all. You will never see any other conversation on my podcast ever.

43:42

Beautiful. What is it?

43:43

From day one till now, we have done 700-800 thousand episodes. Health, wealth, relationships and country insights.

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Oh wow!

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Beautiful.

43:53

These are and so health, because I think if someone wants personal growth in life, then their health should be top, their energy should be very high, otherwise they can't do anything. They need a lot of wealth because that gives them ability to have better and nurture most of the relationships.

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Beautiful.

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Then even after getting money, the relationship doesn't work.

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It doesn't work.

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We need to understand relationship in much better way. The relationship with yourself and with others.

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Beautiful.

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Then, and if you want to do something new and better in health overall, you want to find new opportunities to make money and do something better, you want more empathy in the relationship and want to do better, for all this country insights are very important, what is going on in the country, because the more you understand, the better your overall intuition gets,

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and that's why you can perform better in the three areas.

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Beautiful.

44:44

So these were the pillars. And now when you said that 50,000-60,000 thoughts, but the same three things are being thought over again and again. Absolutely.

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That's what I'm going to write it down using it. Now, there is not much to fix. So it's not like, oh, I have to do overwhelming, I have to do so much. The formula is very simple. You have to do only three things. What else?

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I'm putting this in my manifesto. That we used to say that for personal growth, these three pluses are important. Now I'll give it more logical reasoning. Because the study done on 28,000 to 30,000 people that they think about 50,000 to 60,000 things every day.

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But those 50,000 to 6060 thousand things are only about three things. That is health, wealth and relationships. That's it. And that's what we want to improve in this podcast. I love it.

45:31

Thank you.

45:32

You gave me a good thing to write. But coming back to your point. So you said if someone wants to activate their brain 100%, then these three things should be done. Absolutely. Number one, you should sit with yourself for 10 to 30 minutes daily.

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The more time you can give, the better. Yes, absolutely. You should sit silently and activate your power. Second, bring some mismatch in what you do daily.

45:57

Absolutely.

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Do it differently. If you do something with your right hand, do it with your left hand. If you do something with your left hand, do something else. If you do the same type of workout, shift it. If you take the same route, go from different routes.

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Sensory stimulation.

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Sensory stimulation is needed so that you are challenging the brain in different ways. Right? And third, you said, what did you say?

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So, the third point what we were on was energy management. So, it is not about time management. You know, gone are those times because AI will do a lot of your tasks. So, you are getting free time. But who are you investing your energies on? And wherever there is a very nice Hebbian formula in the brain, it says, the neurons that wire together, fire together. Neurons that fire together, wire together.

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So, wherever you put your attention, wherever you put your focus, your passion into it, you are obviously going to build those circuits. Once your circuit is built, then you don't, that means, now if we talk about cycle, initially I had to learn cycle, I fell a few times, I learned cycle, now do I have to do that before sitting on cycle everyday or before learning car? It happens, right? So, that is exactly what happens in the brain.

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Once your circuit is created, your frontal lobe is strong and this, done. Now you have business loss, now you have any problem in life, you will still become resilient. I had Mr. Rizwan Adatia on my podcast, you know. He is one of those guys who is a millionaire businessman from Africa, went through a lot. He went from millionaire to zero, millionaire to zero. And every time he rose back and he says,

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I have made it here, no one can do anything to zero. And every time he goes back and he says, I have made it here. No one can do anything to me. My internal wealth will definitely create external wealth.

47:31

Wow. So that is true. We're talking about internal wealth and you said about a millionaire. The more I have studied, most of the billionaires and ultra achievers, they are very boring. They don't have any multi-sensory thing.

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They do the same thing again and again and again. Same thing.

47:48

We think like that. If we study in detail, I'll give you some of the peak performers that we have. And we have some of the top leaders of the country such as UAE etc. They do gardening too. They keep reading about all the things that is happening around the world also. They keep traveling also. They keep meeting different kinds of people also.

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So, we think that their task is essentially monotonous and boring. But it is not like that. They do keep themselves sensory stimulated. And that is the only... No, the building years also. Building years is...

48:20

So, let's talk about, for example, a sports star. Yeah. I'm just, I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking out loud. Because I don't want to name a specific person who I know. So, let's say one of the top cricketers in the country.

48:35

Virat Kohli.

48:36

Okay.

48:37

So, don't you think in the building years, he used to wake up every day, practice, go to the ground, play, play, play, then they'll come back and do it. Like Sachin Tendulkar, his story is very heavy, right? And he talks about it. He used to wake up every day and practice for 16 hours. Only bad ball, bad ball.

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Correct. So, in this, he didn't have any multidisciplinary sensors around him.

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Because he was Sachin Tendulkar. No, I'm just joking. See, what happens is they took up that one task and they wanted to be top at that task. So, like you said, remove all that noise, I want to make that one circuit. But if we talk about Sachin Tendulkar, do you think that his strength led him to become a good batsman?

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His physical strength, his strategy led him to become a good batsman? His frontal cortex led him to become that batsman. If we talk about Mahendra Dhoni, he's one of my favorites. If we talk about Virat Kohli, how calm can you be? How much can you stay in command on the pitch? Things will go wrong. How can you modulate that?

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So, where does that come from? It comes from the cortex, okay? So, maybe they are building their frontal cortex. Any sportsman can't win with only strategy, only strength, only that. It is only the frontal cortex. And this study has been done. By the way, in soccer players, basketball players, NBA,

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many such studies have been done that before the game, many brain scans are done before the game. And the game, a lot of brain scanning is done. And what happens after the game, in the middle of the game. So, before the game, people who have a very balanced frontal cortex, whose alpha peak is at the top, they are the ones who perform better. Because they are the ones, I think one of the tennis stars,

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used to play very good tennis, but used to get angry. He used to throw the racket, he used to play very good tennis, but he used to get angry. He used to throw the racket, he used to do this. So, that is where the amygdala hijack, which we were talking about. So, that makes a good sportsman a good sportsman, or a good performer a good performer. So, I think if we talk about general people,

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barring these super ultra-focused performers, sensory stimulation is a must. Otherwise, we will go into dementia. And I feel very sad about it. Why should we be plumbing the brains? We should be kindling the brains, you know.

50:51

And so, what do you call them, anomalies? Or do you think that if there are four ways to develop a brain, then they will focus on three so much that it doesn't matter if one skips.

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Exactly. Exactly. Precisely.

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Absolutely. Because the focus, the art of not getting hurt by anything. Absolutely. It has become so strong that they don't need any other sensory to develop.

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It doesn't make any difference. I was listening to, in fact, Sachin Tendulkar was in Dubai and I was listening to one of his live speeches. And what he was saying is that whatever has affected me the most, whatever improved my game was my mental resilience. Now think, what are you talking about? And you are talking of a mental fitness. So, whatever you take, I feel like, I wish that resilience, building the frontal cortex,

51:35

regulation of the autonomic nervous system, control of amygdala, all this should be taught in school.

51:40

Yeah.

51:41

It is a must.

51:42

I agree. And I genuinely believe the most dangerous people are the ones who can stay calm when they're disrespected.

51:50

Beautiful, beautiful. I had such a situation a couple of weeks back. I called this amazing person and he was giving his lecture. So I was moderating the show and then I had another guy who walks in and completely bashed the whole this of it. Now he's at a very high stature, but he came out of the show and he said, look, this is the test which came in and completely zero changes in his body language, zero change in his physiology. Now that is what I call a peak performer. That whoever it is, even if people are abusing you, or telling you anything,

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but you are not disturbed inside. That is the capacity of the frontal cortex.

52:27

And when you go through a lot of billionaires, does the brain of a billionaire is designed differently?

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So how do they become billionaires? First is nature. So there are some genetic things that we carry. I will give a simple example that there is a loaded gun. Trigger is your epigenigenetics which is your environment. So what you want to become, what is your environment telling you to do? And loaded gun is your gene.

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So combination of nature and nurture will then make your brain flower. So who becomes successful? When they already have that spark in them that whatever it is, I will solve this problem. And there is a why that why do I have to solve this problem? Today if you ask me why do I want everyone's brain to be healthy? Because I feel that God has given you such a good asset and you will just end it by being atrophy.

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So I am very passionate to preserve that asset key. We use it and bring power. So that drives me. So when your motivation, your driving force, your focus, mission, vision, purpose comes on it, then automatically all the genetics of your nature, even if they are successful, then you automatically overpower that environment.

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And that is the reason why you should never feel that my genetics have given me this much Now I will not be able to do anything further. That is a very very minimalist thinking. You know very narrow thinking. So you can design your brain to become a billionaire. Yes, you can do it. Absolutely. 100%. Yes. And I believe in neuro manifestation. People say that manifestation is manipulation and nothing is like manifestation.

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No, everything is all here. Your mind, your brain is all what it takes to get anything that you want.

54:14

Okay. One person, two people, who have a lot of potential in both. One person got tired and nothing could be done in his life. He had potential. He was a smart kid, a topper.

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Nothing happened. He grew up and remained like this. He was left alone. And he became a billionaire. What differences would be there in their brains?

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The same. Frontal cortex would have a lot of power. No matter how many problems he faced, he kept trying again and again. He built up his resilience. He also took the capability to take what is going wrong in his life. He detached. Emotional detachment is extremely crucial.

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He increased his focus and attention. He converted it to purpose. He also perturbed a lot of people by the outcome. Then they decide the outcome. That I want this outcome. So again, you narrowed it down to a limit. Where you could have earned billions, you kept your outcome at millions and came to contentment. We were talking about contentment. Never feel contented because then where will you grow?

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The opportunity and the growth is beyond your contentment. And that's why I like your statement which is right here, right? It's foolish to be satisfied. Don't be satisfied, you know. Go beyond. So, these brains, and the challenges of every brain are going to be the same. Every situation is going to be the same.

55:33

Debt will come, loss will come, failure will come, relationship will crash. This is life. What do you show when all this comes? What comes out of you? That defines you. That destines you. I think that is your destiny. That is your destiny.

55:49

But doesn't that mean that you will be emotionally off?

55:52

No, you are disengaged. You are not off. I am not like that I don't care.

55:57

But that's off.

55:58

No, that is disengaged. You are not taking it inside. Yes, you feel bad. Now, if I talk about 3 days back, a very dear friend of mine had a sudden severe cardiac arrest. You know that night I just could not take it. Earlier, he was much younger than me and I was not able to take it. So, it's not that you don't feel bad.

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Now, how much time will I continue it? That is where the difference comes in. So, I had a loss in my life. Somebody is that. Now what people do is, they spend their whole life in that loss. Then there is an acceptance which you have to at certain point. That it was not in my hands.

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It's an unfortunate event, I cannot help it, it's gone. I wish it did not happen, but that's it, right? I have something in my hands, can I fix it now?

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I can't. The people are not able to come out of that loss, come out of that grief. Even if you have a loss in business, you will keep on ruminating on that loss. You will keep on working on that. And this is nothing. It is all, the cassette gets stuck in the limbic loop. Your cassette got stuck there.

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And finish, your life is gone. Lives are gone.

56:55

So, if I want to know my brain type, how do I find out?

56:58

Yeah, there is a website, website where you can access it. This is not free. How much does it cost? 200 dollars, not too much.

57:08

It's 200 dollars. 16000 rupees to find out the brain type. What will happen if I get to know the brain type?

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Once you understand the brain type, the next question is are you aligned? Are you doing your work according to that? If not, you have to build also. I am driving, so one is my front mirror, one is rear mirror.

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I know about the front mirror, but I also have to look at the rear mirror. So those will be my weaknesses as well. So we call it flow and grow. I want to flow in my strengths. And if we talk about the Indian ecosystem and children,

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they keep doing a lot on weakness. That yes, make have to fix this kid. It's not about that. In the brain, you have to harness the strengths. So, if we talk about the western side, that is where they give a lot of importance to that. If you are in a normal school, the kid writes very well.

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So, they will say, leave everything. The kid doesn't want to study science. You just focus on writing and flower him there. So, that is the beauty with the brain. You do a lot of things in the least effort. Now, here we are on grow.

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Do a small grow. Let there be a rear mirror. But bring the focus of the front mirror on full strength.

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Interesting.

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So, we have built 15 labs, which are very, very specific to building these four parts of the brain. So, now like intuition Lab, Compass Lab, I don't know where am I going, Mental Fuel Lab, Communication Lab, Confidence Lab, because all these are required for your daily life. Now, no one tells you how to develop intuition.

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Yeah.

58:38

Tell me how to do it. People think that intuition comes just like that. But how do you sleep over those decisions that come in? We say gut feeling, the second brain feeling. How does that happen? What type of the data points that you have to scan?

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How fast you have to scan those data points? So there's science into everything. Procrastination. There was a survey which was done. And the survey was shocking. What was a survey which was done. And the survey was shocking.

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What was the survey?

59:06

The survey found out how many people are procrastinators.

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How many?

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Guess? That survey was... Almost a very good guess. Because 95% of the people were procrastinators. It was a huge survey. The scientists wondered that 95% of people are procrastinators.

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That means only 5% of people can work. Why is it that only 5% of people can work? Because fundamentally, the brain is lazy. It doesn't want to work. It's happy where it is. So, there is a way in which you can break the procrastination. There are simple steps.

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Do the shitty draft first.

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Just do it.

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If you work for the first 5 minutes, then the brain will automatically get into a gear. You can even prime a cup of coffee beforehand, I am giving you caffeine. Now work and do it. So...

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Momentum. Yes.

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Absolutely. The first five minutes.

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Can I rewire my brain? That I am not lazy at all. I get excited to do a hard task. Or I...

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Although... You know how I am not lazy at all. I get excited to do hard tasks.

1:00:05

Although, you know how when we wake up in the morning, we don't feel like getting up.

1:00:11

We just go to sleep. Why do we have to go to the gym?

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This is what the majority of people's brain says. Absolutely. There is no problem. We have to get up because of the responsibility. Can we rewire our brain in such a way that it excites us to get up and go to the gym? Apart from 2-3 people who love to go to the gym.

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I am talking about people like me.

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People like me also. So, I would say, rewire your reality, not your brain. You can rewire your reality. And that laziness, first understand, the brain is lazy. 95% of it is procrastinating, I am also a part of it, how do I break this, I have to be having a firm commitment,

1:00:51

so that's why I often tell people to keep a purpose book, if my purpose is that I am just giving a random number, I have to connect with 1 billion people, so that compromise is happening in every 5 minutes of my sleep. So, am I on my mission? Am I on my purpose? And if I continuously keep reminding, because the brain loves meaning by the way.

1:01:13

The chemistry of the neuroscience is such that you connect it with meaning. I wish my 8th standard teacher would have understood that I have been taught Pythagoras theorem of math. He would have told me the meaning of it and how to apply it. The moment meaning comes into the thing, brain is able to do it.

1:01:32

So always attach your waking up in the morning to also meaning. I am a neurologist, so we see a lot of patients who are paralyzed, who lose their eyes, can't speak. So every day I wake up with the feeling that I have got two limbs and two legs and this, so I have to make it happen. So you have to have that drive, constant drive, constant motivation.

1:01:54

First of all, you have to get motivation from outside. You read books, this happens. And sometimes, it is a very interesting thing, everyone talks about positive. Nobody says that we teach negative thinking. Because negative thinking is automatic.

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A & T, automatic negative thoughts. Ants are always crawling. So you are not going to be doing that I have to do negative from positive. The day you rewire your physiology, brain, negative does not exist. So that is the beauty of the mind.

1:02:26

Interesting. I like it. I want to understand men and women's brains are different.

1:02:32

Wow.

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Are they designed differently?

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Beautiful question. So, as scientists, we used to think that there will be a lot of difference. The connection between the two is called corpus callosum. Left brain and right brain connects called corpus callosum. Left brain and right brain connects to corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is very large. The extent of volume will be different in men versus women. But the scientist could not find a major difference.

1:02:53

There was only one difference which most of the studies have shown. If you send a man to a closet, there are socks lying there. The socks are lying just there. He will not see it. He will not see it.

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He went to the fridge and told him to take yogurt. Yogurt is lying there, but he will not see it. That is how he is wired. His attention is wired only monofocal. On one task. He is watching football, everything will end in a while.

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He is watching cricket, everything else goes out. Because they were hunter gatherers. So the way the brain was built was that keep one attention and focus. Now if we talk about women's brain, children are also being taken care of, talking to a maid,

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doing some other work.

1:03:34

So, there is no concept of awareness.

1:03:36

Yes, absolutely. Because that is how their brain is formed. So, largely, women's vocal capacities, vocabulary, the way they speak, that has a big lobe. So, that has been shown about 5% change between the men and the women. Men's is a little less.

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That's why in a conversation only you will hear women's voice and the man is always shut down. These are the major differences.

1:04:00

But one major difference is that, like when you read lot of studies, not from the neuroscience perspective, but from psychology, emotional perspective, if you read a lot of studies, it's mostly men's memory and focus part is more evolved. Women's intuition part and multitasking part is more evolved.

1:04:24

The part to feel emotions is more important, right?

1:04:26

Yes, yes. And also women's memory is better than the men's memory, isn't it? So, the women's memory is more tuned to the emotional. So, their hippocampus, there is a way in which the emotional memories form, right? If I talk about my childhood, let's say my grandmom used to cook amazing cookies. So, I will remember the cookies as soon as the grandmom's emotions come.

1:04:51

So, the emotional wiring of the memories with that hippocampus is strong in women. That's why they remember everything with that feeling. Men don't have that much. Men have more of a general memory not connected to the deep emotions.

1:05:04

And then men have a's amygdala stronger?

1:05:06

Yes. Men's... They used to say, they used to believe that men's amygdala was stronger and hence it fires and all. But nowadays, the latest research is coming that that's not true.

1:05:14

Because of social conditioning, I think there was one research, Mosaic Brain.

1:05:18

Yes.

1:05:19

That unisex... People thought that the brain would be different for men and women. But largely, it was found that it is unisex. Absolutely. Both sides have evolved because of the social conditioning which has been done.

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Correct.

1:05:31

Earlier, when we were hunter-gatherers, maybe we were different.

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Correct. Correct.

1:05:37

Because over the time, the opportunities have become the same. The social conditions have also remained the same. And brain is very quick to change and evolve. That is the beauty of the brain, you know. So, it sets everything very quickly. But isn't it that women have more empathy? It was believed so.

1:05:53

But equally, all the research what is coming through is not showing that that's the case. It's a perception. It's a perception that women, you know, even the technically, if we talk about global standards, then weaker sex and then more emotional, more that and all, but the neuroanatomical correlates are not coming.

1:06:10

But why is this perception then? That boys are more logical and girls are more emotional?

1:06:17

It's just a perception because the way, maybe the way their expressions are, they bring more emotion, they can multitask, they have more expressive demands. So, we get the perception that oh, this is emotional. But the way the men are also

1:06:34

processing their emotions is equally the same. They are not verbalizing it. The difference is that they are using the same emotion process, they are doing the same feel.

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So, they say that a man does not feel pain. It is not like that. It is very much. He is not able to say. Because that greed is not so developed. Why not developed? Possibly because in evolution, they had that you focus and attend to one task perfectly well.

1:06:54

At the time of hunter-gatherer, you just have to do that. So, that was the mission and purpose why the brain was formed, you know. This gets me to the point of men and women, the way they deal with breakups. Hmm. Both boys and girls go to the same intensity.

1:07:08

Then the breakup happens.

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Hmm.

1:07:10

So, girls process at the same time. They will be very sad. They won't like anything for months.

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They won't eat food.

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Their day to day work will have problems. Their work will be affected. They will cry a lot. They will be very affected but they will feel through that process and will be going through it. And after 6, 7, 8 months, she will be over it. Forget it, that was past, it's done, move on.

1:07:34

Some take a year, some take 2 years, but they get over it. And they feel from that time. Versus men, they are ready from the next day, they don't care. They go in the mood. They think that this is the world's heart. Break up is also there. They don't let that emotion process.

1:07:50

They get busy in their work. They escape. And then after 6 months, after a year, they hit that, oh shit! I don't know this was the part of my life.

1:07:59

True.

1:08:00

And then he keeps eating them inside. And then they get into this zone of Correct. And then he keeps eating them inside and then they get into this loan of alone, depression, sadness, feeling stuck, emotional negativity, getting emotionally off. So why does this happen?

1:08:14

See, these are evolutionary perspectives. Exactly the same thing happens for both. And largely people who are listening will also be very much allied to this because this happens. Now evolutionary wise, if you look at the commitment relationship, the chemical changes that are happening are also very different.

1:08:32

Let's say the couple or the friends are meeting for the very first time. The very first time, the girl's oxytocin, oxytocin is like more bonding hormone, it comes a lot, it does not come in men. Even after the sexual intercourse, in women oxytocin increases, serotonin increases, a little bit of testosterone will also come, but in males

1:08:54

only testosterone comes, so the bonding hormones for the women is already pre-anticipatory that he is going to be my partner, the body has already given that signal, physiology has given that signal. So when you invest so much in pre-anticipatory, you have invested so many chemicals, circuits into it, outcomes into it, so obviously you will have the same amount of pain.

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Men don't have this, that's why the way the biological evolution was that I will choose a perfect partner. I will keep, if this is not there, then I will go to the next one, then I will go to the next one, then I will go to the next one. I am not investing in oxytocin there. I am not investing in serotonin. I just did a little testosterone and the matter is over.

1:09:34

So, this entire thing answers your question, that why both of them process it differently. It's a completely different neuro electro chemical reaction what is going on in both the sexes. But that's in the beginning. Yes. After that there is that self ego which comes in right. There is always this back of the brain which is it's not coming in immediately because those chemicals were not there those this was not there then the life passes by then you automatically

1:10:04

stumble upon that friend or whatever happens, you know. Then that little ego thing, because you saw all the other partners. Now you go back to the thing saying that, Oh, that could have been a better choice. Because finally, the entire evolution was to bring better offsprings. It had nothing to do with a man or a woman.

1:10:22

It had all that towards that a man or a woman. It had all that towards my best offspring should come in. So, the entire way in which the man woman psychology, biology, physiology was born to produce good babies. So, that's why it hits them. Now that comparison happens. I think I missed out FOMO. Then the FOMO hits in and then all the entire, then the reverse biochemistry starts.

1:10:49

You're telling me that till date, because of evolution, subconsciously we are choosing only that with whom our children will be better.

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100%

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And not to be involved with anything else.

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Not at all. Love, emotions.

1:11:00

Not at all.

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It's all noise.

1:11:02

Really.

1:11:02

Subconsciously, that is all that we are doing. And it's all noise. Really? Subconsciously, that is all that we are doing. And it's subconscious. That's why we don't verbalize it consciously. We don't even know. But we are doing it. So, who am I getting attracted to? What am I getting fallen into?

1:11:15

What am I getting? This is subconsciously driven from that. On a large perspective. Are there any tools or techniques to get out of pain, break up. Absolutely, A, B, C, awareness, start breathing well. Because when mind over-thinks, I have to reduce the thinking of mind.

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When you don't know what is the length, breadth, volume of mind, how will you be able to reduce over-thinking? The best way is the breath. The breath is the bridge to the mind. So when you calm down, slow down your breathing, you bring the mind. So, when you calm your breathing, you slow it down and bring your mind in control.

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So, awareness, then breathing. And the next C is commitment to do all the daily habits, what we spoke about. From waking up to what you are doing, modulation of all your brains. Automatically, your brain will be fine. If your brain is fine, your life will be fine.

1:12:00

So, tell me, for every emotion, how can I control it? What techniques, tools or breath work can I use to do this? First is anger. If someone is getting angry, how can I control it?

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Beautiful. If someone is getting angry, amygdala hijack. In 13 seconds, blow off and that's it. Very simple thing is deep breathing. Take a deep breath. Take a second deep breath. It is called cyclic sigh and breathe in

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This is done very well by the Huberman lab and Huberman is a great proponent of cyclic sigh Works very well to diffuse that anger or feeling of anxiety feeling of that restlessness It is simple, nothing complex at all or take a deep breath and start to count backwards

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whether you are at 100, 99, 98 you know, so you are taking away from the power of the amygdala deep breath, 100, 99, 98 and then slowly exhale finish

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that's it

1:12:56

parasympathetic system or vagus nerve as soon as it kicks in, it's the powerful this automatically your thoughts work, calms your heartbeat. The interesting thing is that when you change your physiology, you change your psychology.

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As soon as you change your psychology, you change your physiology. If you see a good sportsman, he will always take a deep breath in between. Because he knows that I am parasympathetic. If you see some pole vault, they do it go deep and then they go ahead and shoot.

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Why? Because they know that I have to go ahead in Vegas.

1:13:31

A lot of athletes' physiological connection becomes so strong with their sport that the whistle that goes off, or the time when they have to get ready, they have to go inside, the gun shot happens, their body reacts.

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Like top of the top athletes, Olympics athletes, their body reacts like this.

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Yes, automatic.

1:13:52

They are standing in their mind. It's just their body gets ready to it. Absolutely.

1:13:59

Because of that psychological, physiological reaction. They have trained that. As soon as I change my physiology, my psychology will change, my fear will disappear, my anger will disappear. In fear, the same thing has to be done.

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So, if I have to remove anger, then I have to do this.

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Crying? How can I control crying?

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Why do you have to control? I say it is catharsis, let it go. If it is going for a reason, your emotion is serving a purpose.

1:14:25

Sometimes people are stuck. They keep crying. They are stuck in a situation, but they can't come out of it. Then it's important to control and regulate that emotion. Isn't it?

1:14:33

I would disagree. Because crying is also a way in which you are letting out your emotion. But as you said, let's say, incessant crying happened, you are not able to, which means you don't have to stop the crying. You have to go to the root cause of it. That what you are not able to resolve. So you have to go to the unresolved emotions.

1:14:51

See emotions, there is a very nice book on emotional equations also. Emotions always run like an equation. If we talk about anger, at that time I controlled my anger with physiology. But why did I get angry? Because I had an unfulfilled desire. That person didn't do this to me because I had this desire in my mind. That's why I got angry. So every time if my response is anger,

1:15:13

I don't go ahead and fix anger physiologically. I go ahead and fix the desire. So this always goes like an equation. So crying is because of what? So rather let me go ahead and fix that. How can someone figure out that? What is the reason? Why is there sadness?

1:15:28

What is the loss of power? When you are crying, which means you are powerless.

1:15:31

Some things are inevitable. Someone left you. Someone died. Someone suffered a big loss. Sometimes a human died.

1:15:38

Absolutely. Stay in that state for a little while. The state of grief cannot be lifetime because if the state of grief remains lifetime, that means there is a serious problem. It is necessary to be in initial grief. In fact, in the olden days, grief was done because otherwise, you know, your entire physiology would not take it. So, it was a physiological and psychological process. But if it is incessant, then something is wrong. You need a psychologist, a psychiatrist.

1:16:05

But sometimes, if someone has a breakup or divorce, when you know that the person in front of you is there, at that time, you won't have grief. At that time, you will be sad, but then you have a lot of other feelings, mistrust, lack of happiness.

1:16:24

Ask me. I have gone through it right. I have gone through all of it. And all I had to do was committed that I will get out of this. So we covered anger, crying, how to deal with anxiety. Yeah, anxiety there is a very simple and easy technique. Anxiety, when I say anxiety, let's say it is temporary. Not that it is pathological anxiety or

1:16:45

generalized anxiety disorder. I am just getting into a situation. I am feeling very restless, nervous. I am feeling anxious. 4, 7, 8. I take in 4, I hold 7 and I exhale from the, not from the mouth as we did in the previous, just from the nose. 8, 4, 7, 8 is the quickest way.

1:17:06

Means 4 seconds.

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4 in, yes. You count 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, then 7 you count to hold and then 8 you exhale again counting. 1 is to 2. The magic is in that ratio. When you inhale 1 and exhale 2, your vagus nerve kicks in.

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That is very simple but works like magic. That's anxiety. and exhale 2, your vagus nerve gets kicked in.

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That is very simple but works like magic. That's anxiety.

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It will end.

1:17:30

Momentarily. Migraines? Migraines are very very common. 2 billion people suffer from migraines in this world. So, it's 1 fourth of the population. How do you fix it?

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There is no cure for it but there is control. So, all the headaches, hydration is very important, exercise is very important. When the pain comes in pre-empting, that yes, I am having this from a particular environment, so avoidance of a lot of trigger factors, avoidance of a lot of stress factors.

1:17:58

Is there any such quick hack for migraine?

1:18:00

See, these nerves are very important. These are again the stimulation of the vagus. So, the more you relax it, your head, because finally, eventually it's all muscle contraction and it works very well. A simple thing, if you give a little pressure to the occipital area, it works. There are certain devices now, a simple device comes, cephaly, you just put it up on here, you just press the button, there is a certain frequency which comes in and the headaches come down.

1:18:28

So, it's neuromodulation. So, all these people can use it. Can someone do more? If someone does more, it doesn't matter. No, it's a very safe. There is no hazard into anything. So, you just carry it along. I used to carry it for 7-8 years because I don't believe in popping pills. My mom gets insane migraine attacks. Oh, she should use it, you know. I'll give it to her. It's very simple and it works very good.

1:18:53

Alright, then is there a way that when I feel drained, when I feel very low, I can control it, I can do it better. So, drain is a very common thing, right? We all have busy lives and fatigue, there is something called power brahmari, at least in our lab we have shown. Brahmari is like humming bee.

1:19:14

So, humming bee is like, you take a deep breath and make humming sound. So, nitric oxide, vasodilatory substances are produced in the brain. It relaxes the brain and also focuses it. So, it is like a quick reset. So, when you are tired, just do 2 or 3.

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But at that time, don't focus on anything else. It should be like power as in essentially you are cutting off all the other distractions. Maybe if you turn off the light, it is also good. You can completely darken it, close your eyes and then do the humming bee.

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Very powerful. Humming bee.

1:19:45

Humming bee. It's called humming bee and humming bee has been shown to be also in lot of diseases it helps very well. So, when you pre-scan or post-scan your brain with humming bee technique, you take a deep breath and you are just saying as long as you can, you know, that is humming bee. So when you pre and post brain scan, then your beta, because when you are tired,

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you are losing that focus power, right? Your beta is gone, your alpha is gone, you are just feeling completely low. So it increases that, it does high beta and gamma. The beauty of it is, it gives paroxysmal gamma.

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Now gamma is there, so life.

1:20:21

You know my yoga teacher, at the end of our session, she makes me take deep breath and then she tells me to close my eyes and hum. What happens to that?

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That is Brahmri, that is humming bee. Same, same, same. So, this is called Shanmukhi Mudra and exactly the same. Yes, closing the eyes like that, precisely. And that is super powerful. You can cure a lot of diseases with humming bee.

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Like people with anxiety, lack of focus, ADD, attentional issues, all this you can fix it even as a prescription, even as a therapy.

1:20:55

What happens in the brain?

1:20:56

High beta and then gamma. So, when the gamma comes in, Go ahead, high beta and gamma, in simple language. Efficiency of your brain is improved in anything that you want. Optimizing the efficiency.

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So, before any intense situation,

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I should do this?

1:21:14

Absolutely. You need attention, focus, decision, you are tired, you need power, you want to fight back. Everything. It's just like a

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So powerful. One magic pill.

1:21:24

Actually, when I first studied my brain live, I was surprised myself. I thought this is very interesting and very quick. It's not like your brain changes in milliseconds. And then I went back to the literature. There is enough literature on humming bee technique as a technique

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and then the outcomes in the diseases. So, when we have something very simple, easily available and this, we should optimize the use of it.

1:21:48

And how much should we do?

1:21:49

3-4 rounds, 3-4 rounds every single day. And if there is fatigue, then at least 3. And see, I always say that life is all about experiments and experience. Do it for yourself, check it out what's happening. If it's not serving, it's not for you. But largely, because science has repeatedly seen it with evidence,

1:22:08

90% will be effective. I want to talk about neuroscience of addiction. Why do people get addicted? What happens in the brain? The people who are addicted versus non-addictive people, their brains are different. Absolutely. So addiction is by the way a very common problem.

1:22:26

We think that addiction is only a certain proportion of the people which is there. And addiction can be even in our simple lives. Look at even simple tea, coffee. If you don't get coffee at this time, your brain starts to throw the alarm that Oh! I am addicted to this. If you look at the global statistics also of a lot of substances,

1:22:45

there's a lot of proportionate percentages of youngsters. Specifically, it happens in teenagers and beyond. Why does it happen? Again, we dealt about it that there is no frontal lobe. You don't have your choice, right or wrong. And once you mess it up, once your substance starts to get to a certain level, your wiring of the brain changes.

1:23:05

In fact, there are many studies of Daniel Lehman. They have shown by scanning the spectrum. Because in the spectrum, you actually show the lighting of the brain. In many areas, like your hippocampus, amygdala, frontal cortex, you have seen structural damages. Imagine, to that extent that you are knocking off your brain circuitry and the power.

1:23:28

Now you have frontal cortex, now we are already working on low reserve. In that also you have reduced it completely.

1:23:34

So where is the question of you getting out of it? So when you scan the brain, the person who is addicted to alcohol versus the person who is addicted to another person, versus the person who is addicted to another person, versus the person who is addicted to porn, or is addicted to smoking. Are all these brains different?

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Or is there only one addiction where it is different?

1:23:52

There is only one circuit, no matter what addiction you take, you get to see changes in that. So it is not that yes, it is different, but other bad effects.

1:24:03

So for example, alcohol also has an impact on your coordination. It also works on the cerebellum and damages it. For example, people who consume cocaine, then a certain part of the chemicals, because there are receptors, they connect and there is a chemical reaction,

1:24:21

so it modulates the receptors there as well. Why do some people become addicted and some don't? Again the same thing, you know, that initially when the frontal cortex is not well developed, they get into it and see there was a very nice study which was done on smoking. You never smoke a cigarette, you are given one. So once you start having that cigarette, there is an area in the brain which is talking about the harmful effects of it.

1:24:46

It will always give you a signal that this is not right for you. It is trying to tell you physiologically that this is not right for you. It is giving you the wrong signal, your heart-brain coherence. But when they stop listening to that and that stopping the listening happening only after 2 or 3 times. And then that high, that little chemical high that you got from it, then you want another high and all these receptors work very weirdly.

1:25:10

Initially, you get optimized receptors and then they exhaust. So, the entire way it forms is, you took all the receptors initially, but now the craving is, initially the craving was psychological, then the craving becomes chemical, then it becomes physiological. So, if you don't put a break on psychology, then you have to go to de-addiction on physiology.

1:25:32

Then it's difficult to handle. I was speaking to one of the really good addiction doctors from India. And he has written a lot of books on addiction. I had talked to him.

1:25:43

He says that every person is addicted. Yes. Every person. Some people are addicted to alcohol, some to work, some to something, some to something, some to adventure. Every thing, people are addicted to certain things.

1:25:56

Some people are addicted to routine, whatever. So, when everyone is addicted, then everyone's brain should look the same. No, but what is the outcome of that addiction? See, what is the outcome that matters? I can be addicted to a task which is serving me. I can be addicted to meditation.

1:26:12

Meditation is serving me to build all the capacities. Which is okay. I may call it in the connotation of addiction. But it's actually serving me. So, the question to ask is, is it serving you or disserving you? So, if it is disserving, then my brain's wiring will be different and if it is serving, it will be different. Exactly, precisely.

1:26:30

How does brain know that it is serving or disserving?

1:26:32

Because the internal, your physiology is set in that way. If you do meditation daily, you and I will do it in 66 days, another 66 days, the wiring of the brain will be done, then we will get that motivation ourselves. Because that feeling will change, you know. The entire like compassion, care, the level of our understanding, the level of understanding people, everything will change.

1:26:53

And lot of people are addicted to negative talk.

1:26:56

Right. Big time.

1:26:57

That is a different type of negativity. Big time. That is a different type of addiction. Big time. That people say to themselves that nothing will happen to me. People say that I can't do anything, I am not smart enough, I am not good enough, I can't do it, I am like this.

1:27:07

And automatic negative thinking is the default mode. And default, in fact, I remember from default mode, when we scan peak performers, there is an area in the brain called default mode network. Now this is self-referential. It always talks about what you can do, what you can't do, this is how it is, that is how it do. It is always self-referential. The peak performers are less self-referential.

1:27:29

They are not firing. Which means, they don't have self-doubt. They don't have self-doubt and they don't have any doubt about what they did yesterday, what they said, what they thought. I have only tomorrow or today, right now. What is the present moment for me? That's the beauty when we study the meditators also. In that, he remains quiet. DMN is quietened.

1:27:47

So, what does negative talk do to the brain? It will just continuously put you in that loop of I cannot make this happen.

1:27:56

I am saying this but does the chemistry change inside?

1:27:58

Same, same. Limbic is constantly over firing. It shuts your frontal cortex. The moment your prefrontal cortex is not available for all of this, you can't progress in life. Life's progress is dependent on this prefrontal cortex's power.

1:28:14

This prefrontal cortex and limbic system, this is what drives us crazy.

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That's it. This is the formula. Although there are seven salients, there are a lot of networks in the brain.

1:28:26

Complexly, if we go to study it, there's a process, right? First, I see anything in life, it's my psychological response. And when the psychological response becomes the physiological response, then it changes the chemistry of my life, right? And psychological is prefrontal cortex, then limbic system, then there's a brain stem, then there's spinal cord, then there's gut,

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and then gut becomes intuition, and then that intuition becomes my physiology, and then it changes my life.

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Beautiful. You have told us the whole neuroscience. No, no. This is it. Absolutely. You are right. This is it. It seems complex, but it is not.

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We make it complex. I was watching one clip of Andrew Huberman. And Huberman says that the people who eat spicy, their pain tolerance is better. If their spice tolerance is better, and many researchers have seen that

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those who can tolerate spice, overall, they can tolerate other things as well. So, technically, it's like if you tolerate yourself at one level, which is a little uncomfortable for you, but your body has either learned to tolerate it, learned to enjoy it, or converted something

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into a positive feeling.

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Correct.

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Then wherever else in life there will be something else, you will be more resilient, more tolerant, and your pain tolerance capacity will be better.

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Yes.

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So because of spice, your brain is getting trained to tolerate more pain at other places. Do you think that's true? No, what spices do is that there are many many pain receptors and fibers. When I touch a little, it takes a different fiber. When you burn, it takes a different fiber. There are some small delta fibers that carry pain so when we internally, when I put something in my soft organ

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versus I applied it externally so all these are sensory pathways which are there going from the spinal cord into the brain there is an area called thalamus in the brain where all these sensory inputs, it's like a little highway it guides me whether I have to feel it or not

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the final feeling center is somewhere in the parietal cortex. Now, it will decide the heighteness of your whole sensation. Oh, I have so much, in a small pain, some people overreact, because a lot of sensation has appeared on the parietal. So, the whole guidance mechanism is decided by the thalamus. So, now because I have small delta fibers inside me, when I start to eat spicy, they are getting disturbed. So, those sensations are going in.

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Now thalamus makes a decision that, oh, man, these are very intense signals coming. Should I send it or not? It tries by sending a little bit. Let's see what is happening. The next time it will say, oh send more. I am okay. You know the parietal cortex says I can handle more. So, by doing this, pain threshold, pain tolerance etc. is created. Now that was internal. But the body is such that the body does not know the difference. Like it does not know in visualization that it was real or visualized.

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So, the body's unit says that if it is in this, it will be in this also. Then the body is trying to match it, you know. I have three more topics to cover. One is Aura Photography.

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What is it?

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So, Aura, first of all, you know, I am not an energy expert. So, I will not be able to give you an answer of an energy expert. But as much as we have studied. But tell me, do you do Aura Photography? Yes, I used to do. So, nowadays we have these fancy,

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if you are an iPhone, you get a simple app, you just click a picture and automatically it will show those energies. It is called AURLA. And what can you tell about me? So, energy, how is your energy body?

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Does it make a difference in life?

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I mean, energy is a very, now we feel that this are the physical body. But there is also ethereal body, causal body, there are so many layers to everything. So, you get to know about that layer through energy. So, that's, and it's important.

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You took my photo. Okay.

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Now, you have got to know about your aura photography, what is my aura? What difference will it make? Will it make a make in my life? Yes, because your mental processes are defining that energy. So, if you are mentally focused, if you are very in tune, if this is there, there will be a nice picture which will be created. Essentially, there are colors, there are patterns into it,

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which means that you are not disturbed. Now you are practicing. Let's say I am doing a certain breath practice and my energy is changing and my mental focus is changing. So, it is giving me a good validation that when I change this, my energy pattern is also changing. Okay, just validation. Yes, yes, yes. Nothing will happen with that. My life doesn't matter. No, you get feedback. See, your brain got a feedback. The moment I see a picture, my brain will get the feedback.

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Is it accurate? Now see, there are studies which have been done. Accuracy will come only when you control anything. Why is there less evidence in all these sciences? Because there is no head to head comparison. There is no proper evidence back trial.

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They call it occult science.

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Yes, that's why they call it occult science. Some call it pseudoscience. Some call it science beyond science. But what is the harm in exploring?

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But sometimes if I accumulate irrelevant information, it becomes worse.

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Depends.

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If I see more of this aura photography, I find out that there are four problems in my life. I see this and I feel that my aura is less. More problems have started. It's better if you stay away. Like let's do what we know scientifically or magically.

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Like there is a 100% change. Let's do that scientifically or magically, which we know will change 100%.

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Which is also a way to look at it. Which is also a way of exploring. Now not everybody can intellectually process things. We have to understand that every mind, every brain is different. If someone understands energy and aura more, then let us help them in that way. Because if everyone was the same, that's why I have a problem with the schooling system.

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There are 30 kids, they are all studying differently. You are teaching the same thing to everyone, how will it work? And that's why in My Limitless Brain, we are very into understanding your studying style, learning style, family dynamics, understanding relations, communication, behavior,

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because it is all very customized. So, give customized solutions to people.

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True.

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Well, perfect. Thank you so much. It was a pleasure having you. I enjoyed talking to you. My mind was going around the place.

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But thank you so much for doing this. I loved it. Thank you so much for calling me here. Gratefulness and gratitude. I cannot express my gratitude because A. To meet a peak performer B. To do the scan

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We are going to scan now. And C. To talk about it so that lot of millions of people can get inspired. Thank you so much.

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Thank you. I heard you are going to do a brain scan.

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Yes. Of course. Yeah, sure. So this is your recording which we did on eyes closed. We will go first eyes closed and then we will go eyes open. When I close my eyes, alpha comes. So because the eyes are closed, now look at this legend you can see here the z-spot this is your brain compared to another age and sex match standard so you library silly a jata anything red is high amplitude anything blue is low amplitude so somewhere between the gray

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and the green is a normative standard so So if you see the alpha is coming around green, here, green and yellow, the slightly high alpha, which is coming when you are closing the eyes. So it should be like this, which is perfectly okay. Rest, everything is almost in the normative standard.

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Now, slightly, these are dynamic. We had so much of conversation. So this is after 5 hours. But largely, sometimes this also remains as a fixed disk, we had so much of conversation. So you have to take a bottle of head, but largely sometimes this also remains as a fixed to this, which explains to a but I don't keep us after a while.

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There can be some tiredness, which is that that comes from that slowing, which is happening in the prefrontal cortex. Otherwise, all the brain waves are perfectly fine. Now look at this. This is beautiful. Yeah, peak performance one. You can see the phase coherence.

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There are absolutely no red or blue lines. Which means there is no hyper or hypo connection. For perspective, let me show you some of the scans. You will realize what happens in the brain when there is a hyper and hypo so what happens in the brain this is very very important because for most people what happens is

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there is so much of cross talk which happens you know mind is not at peace something or the other is going on

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this signifies that I can be focused

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you can be very well modulating your brain as you wish you see this? look at this face coherence.

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Whoa!

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This is a person who feels that what if the ceiling will collapse? What if my dog starts to fly? Irrationality of the thoughts aate hai. And look at this. This is also an eyes closed.

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Bilkul blue. There's no alpha which is there. There's no delta which is there, there's no delta which is there, there's no theta which is there. The brain is only running on this high beta. It's constant, constant, constant firing. So this is like a traffic jam in the brain. So and now coming back to yours, look at yours, so to give the perspective. So yeh aasan nahi hota hai. This is a tough thing to have, you know, so that is one of the element required

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for efficient functioning of the brain.

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Okay.

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All of that's good. In my case, that's good.

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That's very good.

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And we have to maintain that.

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Okay.

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This is a very interesting score and an important one. You're looking at 10.5 on the PC. Now this is the alpha peak. So between eight and 12, the higher the alpha peak, the better it is for the functioning of the brain. Now normally we see 9.5 to 10.

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We see around 9. But largely the very high peak performers, we see 12, 13, 14. We see this in a lot of athletes.

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People who are shooters, people who are parachute divers, jumpers etc. because somehow their cognition is only complex problem solving but it is also judgment, orientation, how to do it in visual spatial, so lot of all this also gets into this core. Now this is very important, when you close your eyes open, the brain should modulate

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and a lot of people cannot modulate this. This is very interesting. Now in the eyes open state, you are getting a lot of theta. Theta is like a creative, calm, very very relaxed type of a wave. When you meditate, you go into theta. Now, largely it is the opposite. When we close our eyes and we are trying to go internal, that is when the theta comes in. This indicates the distractibility that you are talking about. When we open our eyes and we are trying to go internal, that is when the theta comes in.

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This indicates the distractibility that you are talking about. So we take the ratio of theta and beta. In your case, the ratio of theta and beta will be slightly high. And that's why when I'll give you a final report, you will see slight theta-beta high. This itself is indicative of mind wandering. When you are working suddenly, the mind will go off and then you have to gather your thoughts and then come back.

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Now a lot of people in eyes open have a lot of beta which fires or front may be Java. They are always doing things. They don't make things happen. And that's why I will put this into the very good peak performance this because your theta and your creative brain is only leading you into that So your distract ability number one answer are here because there is an excessive theta

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Agar if you are able to build five minutes of routine into building a little bit of beta I've got almost ratio critique curling in a life will be sorted and for that easiest to do is Trotter So Trotter kids like, you know watching a candle flame or for that easiest to do is tratak. So tratak is like watching a candle flame or for that matter even watching a Sri Yantra if in the center of the Sri Yantra five minutes immediately you will start seeing the difference. Now when eyes open you do get a lot of

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gamma again in the frontal part which explains your ability to see beyond what other people can see so you know you can plan you can execute a certain things this gamma is very very good and helpful for us so very nice i should show you this person's gamma to just to understand in the perspective now she is a healer. So yeah, you bought us on quantity fight that he cut it off to just, you know, monitor and do all the changes that we want. So it got chassa.

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This is like a good benchmark, but amazing. As I said, eight on 10, I'll give you for your brain.

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And that's beautiful. That's got to be me.

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So, you are seeing beyond 30? So, everything, all this is like an entire brain which is wrapped in gamma. So, when this happens, then all your functions are all opened at once. So, a lot of people automatically come from some problem. Somebody has pain, somebody has arthritis, whatever it is, you know, that healing happens because such an entire gamma it gives some special powers and very, very, very rare to find

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that entire brain is wrapped in gamma. So, if you and me can also have that now, so we will be at a God alone knows what level. So, that is the reason why I am doing this. when I see this, it's fun because if you and me can also have that now, so we will be at a God alone knows what level. So that I want to have that,. Exactly, very good and interesting point. They can think and absolutely make things happen. So their manifestation ability is so much that

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they don't feel anything else. They come in front of you, things happen automatically. So that happens through the power of literally manifestation.

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Manifestation, yeah.

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But in my library, this is the top gamma. Whenever I see this, station now look at his brain theta only high amplitude theta in the entire brain and zero beta. But now, you know, absolutely no beta whatsoever. So, you know, this gives you the indication, which means

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same thing he was saying that, Shweta, I can write a book in five minutes. I can create a project in two minutes. I mean, my speed of imagination and creativity is so high that I have a problem in bringing out the output. So there are very interesting nuances of such brains as well. So all in all, we will make this beta, we will reduce the theta beta ratio,

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we will remove the delta, we will improve the sleep efficiency, including Tratak, we and then My blessings and my wishes are there with you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Done.

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After doing this for 3 months, we'll do probably...

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Yes, we'll do it again. And then we'll do pre and post. And we'll show all the delta changes.

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Done. Perfect.

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