Episodes
Saturday Sep 30, 2017
Saturday Sep 30, 2017
In this second discourse on brain anatomy and duality, Bryan introduces a spiritual doctor named Daniel G. Amen. A clinical and neural scientist, a child and adolescent Psychiatrist and Medical Director of the Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine. A recipient of many awards, he is an expert on the relationship between the brain and behavior. and he is the author of several books. In this episode Bryan will share what he has learned from Dr. Amen in his book “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsession, Anger, and Impulsiveness” about interventions to take with respect to improving and maintaining optimal brain functioning, the climate of our thoughts, the climate of our feelings, the climate of sense regulation, the supervision of all the things that happen in the brain, all those thousand barking dogs we deal with on a daily basis. The essence of the book says that we are not stuck with the brain we are born with. Bryan says this is a good thing because the brain helps to create the reality, all the situations and encounters that we draw to us, what we come to know while in a body. It is important to note that the brain can turn on us and we don’t need to be mentally disturbed or deranged to know that. There is now medical and scientific proof that under activity or over activity in certain parts of the brain can create “afflictive barking dogs” we come to wrestle with, whether harmful, fearful, avoidant, aggressive, or impulsive in nature. Dr. Amen’s research in brain imaging has led to more effective treatment of mental disorders, allowing people to become much higher functioning.
Dr. Amen is noted for showing how your brain, or the “hardware of the soul”, can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Bryan says we need to learn to shake hands with the devil and realize that the devil has the face of our own self, rather the self-projected images of the brain, not just the overall mind that contains the brain within it. Bryan compares the journey into facing our worst “enemy” as the descent into hell where we realize that what we consider to be our enemy, is really our best friend.