Justin Moore - Mind over Brain: 4 Books in 1 : Overthinking, Change Your Brain, Master Your Emotions, Declutter Your Brain (Declutter Your Mind Book 5)

What if I told you that you can change the way your brain functions? No, you dont need to undergo any crazy surgery for it. In fact, you can start today!

Youve met those people who can walk into any room and fit in. They strike up a conversation with anyone and become fast friends with them. Taking on their habits is actually quite simple. When you look at how successful people get that way, it all lies in the way their minds work. Whereas those who do not succeed tell themselves all the reasons why something could never work, a successful person visualizes where they want to be and plans out the steps to get there.

Our brains dictate how we respond to the outside world, thus creating the outcome for our lives. Unfortunately, sometimes our brains do not behave in our best interests. This is when we need to resume control over them. Yes, you can do this. It has become an established practice that you can learn and perform from the comfort of your home.

You can reach the success you want to, in your social life and your career. Over the past years, techniques have been created by psychologists to change your brains thinking patterns by essentially rerouting the neurons within it. All of this might seem complicated at first, but it really all comes down to the way you think.

We all have an inner voice. It can either build us up or bring us down, and you have the power to decide which way yours goes. As you read this book, you will be taken through the steps to do so.

We all have things we would like to improve about ourselves, whether it is a physical matter or about our personalities. What if I told you that you can change the way your brain works, meaning you can become whoever you want to be? If you want to become a public speaker, you can gain the confidence to do that. If you can name a trait that you want to take onto yourself, it can be done.

In the past few decades, there has been a strong push towards self-help and improvement. You see it everywhere- change your life, become your best self, boost your confidence. It sounds like a great idea, but then you start to think, how is that possible? Even if it is, where do I start?

To answer the first question, yes. All of those things and more are completely within your reach. You have begun the process now by picking up this book. You could have put it aside and decided that it is not worth it to try, but instead, you are willing to try, which means you are capable of doing it. As for the how, the answer lies within where every thought, feeling, and action begins- your brain. Lets say you get nervous whenever you are going to meet new people, and it often gets in the way of making friends and speaking in front of other people. This means it is getting in the way of you forming relationships, which is detrimental to both your social life and success in your career.

To break down what happens when you are hit with this form of social anxiety, talking to others has become a trigger for the negative thoughts that induce the process. The anxiety, or fight-or-flight response, kicks in because of a thought that comes in and upsets you, such as Im going to say the wrong thing and then everyone is going to make fun of me. Then you have mental images of this happening, causing you to have an emotional response to something that has not even occurred yet and might not ever. Your brain is giving you false information that it has interpreted as true. It is a thought pattern that has become automatic over the course of what is most likely a span of years. What you would need to do to begin the process of fixing this problem is to change the way your brain interprets interaction with others so that it does not see it as a danger anymore.

Changing your brain might sound like a concept straight out of a futuristic fiction movie when you first hear of it. However, it is quite simple, so much that you can do it from the comfort of your home. Have you ever had to learn something a different way, whether it was because you found out you had been doing it incorrectly or your current employee wanted you to do it a different way from how your past one did? When you did that, you were altering the way your brain is wired. That is how simple it is, and while it may sound like a daunting process, it does not have to be one. Think about how you climb up a ladder- at first, you are on the ground, meaning you have yet to start your journey. You do not try to reach for levels above what you are at. If you tried that, you would run the risk of falling or even bringing the ladder down with you, and you would certainly not make the progress you wanted to. You would need to start on the first step and then work your way up. If you kept this up, you would eventually find yourself standing at the top of it. Even if you think you are too far away from what you want to ever reach it, take a moment to think about where you are now. Say you just graduated college and are nervous that you will not be cut out for what comes after. When you are getting into these thoughts, I want you to go back to your first day at the university. You were out on your own for the first time. Even if your parents were paying your expenses, you still had to figure out how to go through your daily routine on your own without any supervision or help. You probably came to realize it was a different experience being in charge of your schedule- no reminders from parents and your professors took a much farther step back from the way you handled your work. Your success relied on your work ethic alone now, and that is not something everyone can handle. However, you showed that you were able to adapt to this new environment, and you made the choices that would get you to the day that you were walking across the stage with a diploma in hand.

I want to go back to the word adapt. This is an essential part of changing the way you live your life. You grow and adapt. Think about the things you thought five years or even one year ago. It is probably vastly different from the way you think now. Your ideas and beliefs evolved into ones that are more insightful. The fact that you can learn to do better means you have what it takes as you are today to change your brain.

I want to introduce you to the concept of self-improvement without the misconceptions that often come with it. For many, their first thought is that to accomplish it, you must become something other than who you are. This is not true. It is amplifying the strengths you already have while minimizing your weaknesses. In the case of becoming a public speaker, the idea would not be to change who you are, but your approach to being on a stage in front of an audience, learning to look forward to it instead of dreading it. Self-improvement is about making yourself into someone successful, and this is not about being glamorous or able to put out an image of yourself that is perfect. I am going to show you what truly goes into a mindset that leads to success.

First off, I am going to talk about the fact that two people can have the exact same experience and interpret it completely differently. Here is what I mean by that. Lets say two people audition for a role in a theater production, and neither of them gets a callback. The first person throws their hands up and decides they are not cut out to perform, but the second looks over their audition and realize they did not come off as being well-prepared, so they go out of their way to do research for their next audition and get the part. The first person saw the event as a permanent defeat, but the second person took it as a learning experience and tried again, and that is how they were able to obtain their goals. It had nothing to do with them being better than the first person. They simply had a successful mentality instead of a self-sabotaging one. There is a distinct difference between these two thinking patterns of these two types of minds and the outcomes of their interactions.