Your Personal Program for Building a Resilient Brain with Dr. Kate Truitt

In this continuation of her deep dive into the Resilient Brain Care Program, Dr. Kate describes a daily schedule you can follow to start implementing this practice into your life. She goes onto explain that this schedule consists of taking 3 opportunities during your day to spend 7 minutes practicing, which is fortunately only about 2% of an average day. And it’s certainly worth it because it increases our body/mind’s ability to stave off stress and stay in balance. To start this practice, Dr. Kate notes that you’ll be using CPR for the Amygdala®, along with “creating possibilities” exercises. For the first opportunity you take at the beginning of your day, she asks you to make sure that you get out of bed and sit up with your feet on the ground. At this point, you can assess how you are feeling in the current moment. Dr. Kate invites you to notice if there is any unpleasant energy occurring for you, at a 2 or higher on a scale of 0-10. If so, she encourages you to, as mentioned, apply CPR for the Amygdala®, the Self-Havening Touch, maybe play some “brain games,” etc. By doing this, your Amygdala is no longer driving your “thinking brain”/the rest of your brain/body. Then, Dr. Kate suggests that you ask yourself, “What type of energy would I like to carry into the rest of my day?”, and then, following the creating possibilities exercise, “What if, I was…?” This works to support neuroplasticity. For the 2nd opportunity you take during your day, Dr. Kate invites you to ask yourself, “How am I feeling about how the day is progressing so far?” You of course, will then repeat the same exercise as before, connecting back into your preferred feeling state, with intention. She explains that, the more we connect back, the stronger those connections get, and the more likely our brain will link into those in the future. Dr. Kate also notes that, if you’re at a 2 or below on the scale of 1-10, you can spend less time with the practice, and, your brain might already have some connection to the “What if?” question. You can even try bringing in a new “What if?” experience/preferred feeling state. At the end of your day, Dr. Kate asks you to repeat the same exercise again. She describes that our brain is actually quite simple, and this repetition helps because our brain loves patterns. It gets used to doing these exercises, and will start to enjoy them. So go over your day, and look out for lingering experiences in the future. Join Dr. Kate to learn more and start creating actionable change today! #Wellness #SelfCare #Neuroscience For more information and blogs visit DrTruitt.com, find inspiration on Instagram @Dr.KateTruitt, join Dr. Kate live Clubhouse @DrKateTruitt, and subscribe to us here for weekly videos! Want to learn more? Dr. Kate hosts live virtual workshops teaching self-healing in your hands tools and techniques. Join her and the Viva Excellence team to build your at home brain care program! Register here: https://www.vivaexcellence.com/self-h... Dr. Kate Truitt is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, as well as holds a MBA in Healthcare Administration. She is the CEO of the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles, Chairman of the Board of the Amy Research Foundation, and leads her flagship organization Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates located in Pasadena, CA. Her teams of expert psychologists and psychotherapists provide individual therapy, group therapy, executive coaching, and neurofeedback throughout California via telehealth. Contact us today to learn more or to begin your healing journey with one of our expert team members: 626-524-5525 or https://www.drtruitt.com © 2021 by Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates. All rights reserved. No part of this video may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright holder.