Your Brain Won’t Let You Change — Until This Happens

Disgust must be aimed at the behavior, not the self. That should be made clear.

I studied neuroscience. I know this shit . But my god did I need to hear this right now. Much appreciated.

"Behavior will change chemistry faster than any thought in your life ever will." This is a great line. Whenever I'm down if I ruminate or Doom scroll motivation content I just dig the hole deeper, but if I get out or work out I feel better within minutes.

Getting off all social media, taking 10,000iu of D3, K2, magnesium Glycinate, zinc, and saffron, not eating any processed/fast foods, no Starbucks, and little to no refined sugar, and eating high protein has absolutely made me feel 10000% better! I’m progressing in my goals, anxiety is down, system feels a lot more regulated, I don’t feel like I’m in a constant state of fight or flight anymore. Lifestyle changes can and do absolutely fix a lot of things!

I can’t even put into words how badly I’ve needed to see this. I was an extremely high achiever, but I fell into a DEEP depression, gained weight, isolated myself from everyone, and participated in deep self-destruction. I want to get my life back from the last 7 years of hell. I’m 28 and life isn’t over yet.

"I love you too much to let you do that" is a good thing to tell oneself when faced with destructive behaviour.

I hate it when I really want to do something but I don't want to do it at all.

I used the trick, of viewing a behavior negatively, to quit smoking 35 years ago. I had tried countless times before but, this trick got me through it. Whenever I felt the craving, I thought of the hassles, the expense, the clothes with burn holes, the social stigma, the stink, etc. And, finally, whenever I thought of smoking I repeated internally, " That's not how I behave now, it is part of the past".

This is so good and enlightening. Can someone pls bring me back by liking my comment. I wish it was an hour long video

Finally some who actually knows what he is talking about!