Episode 486: Protecting Your Brain from Social Media, Improving Your Business Performance, and How to Overcome Negative Thoughts with Dr. Amen

Would you like to tame the hidden dragons that control your happiness, habits, and hang-ups? If so, today’s episode will be of interest to you! My special guest is Dr. Amen, one of America’s leading psychiatrists and brain health experts who has written over 40 books, including his latest work, Your Brain is Always Listening. In this episode, Dr. Amen reveals what we all need to do to manage our thoughts in an impeccable way, so that we can harness the true power of our brains!

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In this episode you’ll hear:

• The importance of brain health specifically for entrepreneurs 
• What Dr. Amen says are the 11 big risk factors to prevent or treat to optimize your brain’s performance
• Helpful tips for protecting your brain from the effects of social media, and how he manages his own brain health daily to combat this
• Why active listening is such a critical skill for parents to have to connect more effectively with their children
• His concept of “ANTs”, or “Automatic Negative Thoughts,” and an exercise you can start doing to overcome yours
• How positive thinking differs from accurate thinking
• Affirmations you can use to tackle your “dragons”
• The role our ancestry plays in the thoughts we have today
• What role spirituality takes in the functioning of a healthy brain
  
  

LINKS:

Dr. Amen’s Latest Book (With Bonuses!) & Other Works

His Website, Instagram & Podcast

Dr. Amen’s Know Your Dragons Quiz

Amen Clinics

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