Ep 18 - Neuroplasticity: How to Rewire Your Brain

This week’s episode is all about transformation—from the energy you’re moving through to the actual rewiring happening inside your brain.

Gina kicks us off with a powerful energy update: we’re in a bridge moment—the old is releasing, the new is arriving, and your nervous system is recalibrating to match it. You may feel scattered, tired, emotional, or suspended between identities… and it’s all completely normal. This is a week of presence, gentleness, and choosing again.

And that theme leads perfectly into today's episode, because we’re diving deep into neuroplasticity—the science of how your brain changes, adapts, and rewires itself based on your thoughts, emotions, and repeated behaviors.

If you’ve ever wondered why you react the way you do, why certain habits feel automatic, or how to finally break old cycles, this episode explains it in a way that blends brain science + energy + spirituality in a way only The Charmed Life Project can.

You'll learn:

✨ What neuroplasticity actually is and why your brain is never fixed or stuck
✨ How every thought, emotion, and reaction forms “neural pathways” that become your autopilot
✨ Why you keep repeating the same patterns (even when you don’t want to)
✨ How to interrupt old loops and build new ones through choice, emotion, and repetition
✨ The science behind “neurons that fire together wire together”
✨ How visualization, intention, and energetic alignment literally reshape your mind
✨ How your beliefs—even childhood ones—turn into deeply wired emotional responses
✨ Why spiritual practices and intuitive development work because of neuroplasticity
✨ Real examples from our own lives—habits we’ve rewired, emotional loops we’ve broken, and the surprising neural patterns we didn’t even realize we had
✨ A simple 5-step process to consciously rewire your brain and change your reality

You’ll also hear Gina’s psychic perspective on energetic rewiring, Kim’s practical tools for habit formation and awareness, and stories that will make you realize just how powerful your inner world truly is.

Because here’s the truth:
 Your brain is always rewiring itself. The only question is—are you doing it intentionally or unconsciously?

By the end of this episode, you’ll understand how to:
 🔹 Break emotional autopilot patterns
 🔹 Build habits that actually stick
 🔹 Change the way you think and feel
 🔹 Reprogram your subconscious
 🔹 And step into your future self… one tiny decision at a time

This episode is science-backed, energetically aligned, and packed with real, actionable tools to help you create the life—and identity—you’re ready for.

If you're craving change, growth, clarity, or confidence, this is one you don’t want to miss.

Listen in, share with someone who needs it, and get ready to see your mind in a whole new way.

Like, subscribe, and we’ll see you next week!

Transcript

Speaker 2 1:38

Hey guys. Gina Garino, psychic Medium and Spiritual Life coach. Are you ready for this week's energy update? Well, we have a few things going on, we're in a bridge moment. Okay, so the old is still releasing, the new is still arriving. So this week asks for presence, sensitivity, and a willingness to let go of what no longer serves you. So on an energetic level, your nervous system and your subtle body are recalibrating. You may be feeling like you are between what used to be and what could be. The frequency is calling us to wake up to our power, redefine our identity, and step into more authentic expression of ourselves. So here's what to look out for and also be gentle with because you're in a transformational phase. You may feel uneasy, scattered, tired, or even in the in-between things that is completely normal. You are birthing something new. So be gentle. Old familiar patterns can pop up. It's a final chance for the ego to get it, before the new structure takes hold. So don't fight them. Just simply observe, release, and choose again. With the expansion of the energy, there's a risk of jumping too fast or spreading yourself too thin. Ground yourself. This is evolution. This is not a sprint. So here's your mantra for the week, I effortlessly release what no longer serves me, and I step into the wide open horizon of my highest potential. My mind, my body, and my spirit are all aligning now.

Speaker 3:30

So I love that the energy update is all about transformation and releasing old patterns. And creating new structures.'cause that is actually what the podcast is about this week. We're diving into neuroplasticity. A topic we've mentioned before, but today we're gonna go deeper. We're going to explore some fascinating brain science, but stick with us because by the end, you'll understand exactly how you can literally rewire your brain to create a new reality for yourself. So let's dig in. What is neuroplasticity? Well, neuro, of course, has to do with the brain. And plasticity means changeability to be shaped or molded. So neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to change. Your brain is constantly reorganizing itself, changing its structure and function in response to learning to your environment and your experiences. This means your brain isn't fixed just like everything else in the universe. It's always changing every thought, emotion, and behavior sends an electrical and chemical signal through your neurons, your brain cells, and these signals strengthen or weaken the connections between them called synapsis. Over time, those strengthen connections form neural pathways, the mental roads that become your habit. Skills, beliefs, and even personality traits. Your narrow pathways are you on autopilot. When you've done something enough times, day in and day out, it becomes automatic. Your brain takes over. An environmental cue triggers the same well worn pathway, and before you know it, you've brushed your teeth without thinking about it. Driven the same route to work without thinking about it. Snapped at your husband without thinking about it or grabbed a snack without even realizing you're doing it. You have gone on autopilot. These are your habitual behaviors. The programs that run quietly in the background of your mind, the more you repeat them, the stronger those pathways become. To visualize this, imagine you're hiking through the woods on a trail. One day you notice a sunny little clearing off to the side, a perfect spot to sit and think. So you step off the trail pushing through the tall grass and weeds. That's your new neural pathway. You flattened a bit of the vegetation. There's a faint trail now, but it's not strong yet. If you come back the next day, you can probably find your way again. But if you wait a week, the grass grows back, the weeds take over and it disappears. Now imagine you go there every single day. Each time the path becomes clearer and wider. Soon. You don't have to look for it, it's just there. In fact, other hikers might even start following it without realizing it's new. That's how neural pathways form repetition and consistency. The more you travel the same path, the stronger it becomes and the paths you stop walking, those grow over again. The path naturally weakens as the brain prunes those connections to make room for new ones. So let's bring this into everyday life. Let's say that you want to start taking a vitamin. Each morning you leave yourself a note by the coffee machine that first morning that you see the note. You pour your coffee, you take your vitamin, you drink your water, and a brand new connection is formed in your brain coffee to vitamin to water. Right now that connection is weak, just like the faint trail in the woods. If you forget for a few days, the path starts to fade. If you keep that reminder visible and repeat the same steps every morning, the connection strengthens. After a couple of weeks, you'll notice you don't even need the node anymore. Your brain automatically pairs coffee time with vitamin time. You've wired a new habit. Now, not all pathways are about physical actions. Some are emotional. Let's take that example earlier about yelling at your husband. Let's say you've been married for 15 years and your husband's job is to take out the trash. He forgets a lot. Each time he does, you get frustrated. Over time. Your brain wires that missed trash day equals anger response. It's been practiced so many times that it fires automatically. The quote most used with neuroplasticity is neurons that fire together wire together. Neurons are brain cells that send and receive messages. And when two neurons activate at the same time, say, when you think a thought and feel a matching emotion, your brain strengthens the connection between them. When two experiences happen together, your brain links them. So even if you tell yourself, I'm not gonna get mad this time, the pathway lights up before you even realize it. That's your emotional autopilot. A well worn trail of reaction. The good news, just like with habits, emotional pathways can be rewired too. With awareness, you can interrupt these pathways and create new ones. You can learn to pause, breathe, and respond differently, and with practice, that then becomes your new trail, your new normal. So whether it's brushing your teeth, taking your vitamins, or snapping at your spouse, it's all the same mechanism. Your brain is following, the strongest trail you've built, and that means you have incredible power because you can choose which trails to keep walking and which to let fade away. That's the magic of neuroplasticity. You can teach your brain new ways of thinking, feeling and responding, and by doing so, you literally change your life from the inside out.

Speaker 2 9:15

Kim. I'm just sitting here like, holy cow. Because. I just keep going back to that old saying of practice makes perfect. Now, when you plug that in, where the neuroplasticity. Practice does make perfect with a science base behind it of that's why we practice. And I've been teaching this actually in my psychic predictions class that's going on right now where I'm telling them, Hey, this is all gonna click. You have to practice to develop these pathways. To create, this muscle in your brain that it just automatically turns on anytime you're getting ready to do a reading. So I love this and I can't wait for my students to all listen to this. And recently, and I'm gonna get into my whole spiel, don't worry, these are just my thoughts on what you were saying, but I just recently realized that I had a neuro pathway. That was connected to my menstrual cycle. So I knew every time I got on my app, my period app, and I saw, okay, it's 12 days before I'm gonna start, there is a neuro pathway that I created that was telling me through experience, but also I was telling myself of, oh, this is the time where you start feeling bad. This is the time where you're the most irritable, you know, those days leading up. And so this month I decided to create a new pathway on day 12. Miraculously. Didn't even tie it into this episode where I was like, you know what? Every day I am gonna really focus on being present. And nourishing my mind, body, spirit, so that I don't go down that rabbit hole of, oh, just because it's day 12, I'm gonna go down this pathway. And this month has been a completely different experience and I haven't, I have not gotten as irritable. I have felt better. My cramps haven't been so bad, like it's been awesome. So that's how this is all kind of tied into my life, but also neuroplasticity. From my point of view, from a psychic's point of view, every belief you hold, every emotion you repeat, if you've been stuck in fear, doubt, old stories, your brain is simply wired itself to keep on tuning into that frequency. So what's the good news? You can reprogram it spiritually and neurologically. That's what neuroplasticity is, the sacred ability to choose a new signal. Think of your neuropathways as an energetic highway. Every time you affirm a limiting belief, I'm not intuitive enough. Money never flows. To me. Love is hard. You are driving that same highway over and over and over again. It becomes smooth. Familiar and automatic, but when you begin to consciously redirect your thoughts, when you visualize new outcomes, speak new affirmations, and act from a new energy, you're literally building a new road in the mind. At first, it feels clunky. You might hit resistance or doubt. That's your old wiring, trying to keep you safe in what's familiar. So keep going. Each time you choose a new thought, you strengthen a new connection. So here's a little psychic lesson for you. Energy follows attention where your awareness goes. Neurons fire, and where neurons fire together, they wire together just like Kim was saying. So if you start visualizing your future self. Calm, magnetic, intuitive, abundant, and feel that energy as if it's happening. Now, your subconscious begins to treat that as truth. That's just not manifestation talk that's energetic. Neuroplasticity. Your intuition expands. When your neural networks are flexible, the more you open your brain to new patterns, the easier it becomes to receive divine guidance, downloads and inspiration. So here's a few exercises for you. Number one, the morning recode. Before your feet hit the floor, say, today I'm teaching my brain to expect miracles. Feel it. See your neurons lighting up in gold light, forming new bridges of belief Number two. Energy anchoring throughout the day. Catch your autopilot thoughts. When you hear an old belief, stop, breathe, and say out loud, that's the old me I'm wiring something new. The third one is visualization rituals. Spend three minutes visualizing your desired reality as already true, not from longing, from embodiment. Imagine your brain glowing, your aura expanding and new connections forming. And then you also get the icing on the cake, the nighttime neural reset as you fall asleep. Whisper gratitude for the new thought that you practice that day. Gratitude cements the new neuropathways and it tells the brain, keep this one. So your psychic power isn't just a gift, it's a skill. And like all skills, it's built through repetition and energetic intention. The more you practice aligning your mind, energy and spirit, the more the brain learns to hold higher frequencies of awareness. So remember, you're not just thinking, you're sculpting your consciousness. Paint something beautiful. Hmm.

Speaker 15:27

I love when the spiritual and the science align. It's like soul meets science. Uh, yes. Many of the things I'm gonna talk about today align totally with what you were just talking about. But I wanna talk about how to use this power intentionally as well. Because here's the thing, you're already rewiring your brain all the time, every single day. New pathways are being laid in your brain. The only question is, are you doing it on purpose with intention, or are you letting your environment and emotions do it for you? So. Here's how to interrupt and override those old pathways and strengthen new pathways so that they become your identity so that you can change your reality. We're gonna look at this as a five step process, so we've got awareness, repetition, environment. Emotion and reflection. Let's start with awareness. This is always the first step. If you wanna change anything, it was Gina's first step as well. You can't change something unless you've become aware of it. It's common sense. We talk about this idea of becoming the observer of your life, of your thoughts and beliefs and feelings because you are doing it. So much on autopilot. You have to be very intentional and become conscious to the unconscious, and I'm not going to lie to you. This takes a massive amount of energy, but you need to become aware of your current thoughts and feelings and habits and behaviors. Your personal reality is created by your personality, and your personality is made up of your thoughts. Feelings, beliefs, and actions. So you need to start becoming aware of the thoughts that you are repeating in your mind day after day. Like Gina said, when you wake up in the morning, what is the first thought going through your mind? They're probably the same thoughts that you had yesterday morning and the morning before that. And the morning before that. So if you wake up thinking, Ugh, I don't wanna get outta bed. I don't wanna go to work. I'm so tired. Odds are that's a repeating thought loop. It's a pathway, and it's just gotten stronger and stronger each day that you repeat it. So pay attention. What thoughts are going through your head when your eyes pop open in the morning? What about throughout the day as you get ready for work, as you go to work, when you come home, when you go to bed, become aware of the feelings that you're constantly feeling. There's probably a handful of feelings that you feel on a regular basis, almost like they are your default. Are you constantly feeling overwhelmed or stressed? Guilty, maybe envious? Are you annoyed or frustrated or angry? A lot of the time. The feelings that you're feeling over and over again are a pathway in your brain that has become thick as steel through repetition, and you are constantly traveling that pathway on autopilot. And it's the same thing with your beliefs and your actions. Become aware of your repeating patterns and what triggering events tend to lead to them at work. Are you shying away from the spotlight constantly? Are you grabbing a snack as you get into bed every night? You can't change a pathway if you don't see it. So start noticing your autopilot reactions and what situations trigger you before you even realize what's happening. When you become aware of the pattern, that's the moment you step off the old trail. That pause, that space between stimulus and response is where neuroplasticity begins. So let's go back to the trash example. You feel that familiar irritation bubbling up. Pause, take a breath. Remind yourself of what reaction you'd rather have to the situation. In that moment, you've interrupted the old loop. You've stopped firing the same neurons together, and that gives you a window to create a new path. And then number two, repetition. Like Gina said, practice makes perfect. This is true for everything in life. And remember, it doesn't have to be only practice in the physical sense. It can be mental practice as well. Like Gina talked about visualization. Your body and mind does not know the difference between a thought or a visualization and something actually happening in real time. In reality, once you've spotted the old trail, it's time to build a new one. Remember the hiker analogy? Every time you choose a new response, you're walking that new path, reinforcing that new trail. The more often you walk it. The clearer it becomes, the easier it gets to travel. If you want to make a habit that you do on autopilot without thinking about it, you need to walk the path daily. Let's say that you want to exude more confidence in yourself, then every time you see yourself going down that familiar pathway of feeling insecure, you need to course correct. Instead of continuing to say, I can't do that, or I'm not good at that, you need to start laying the new path by saying something to yourself like, I can do this. I'm becoming more confident in myself every day. You won't believe it at first, and that's okay. Repetition creates belief. Belief only comes after repetition. Remember what I told you a few episodes back about this. The brain is structured in such a way that the more it hears something, the more it believes it. Every single one of our brains works that way. Negative information gets hardwired into our brain because we hear it over and over. Or we repeat it over and over in our minds. So if you want to instill some kind of new belief, start saying it to yourself over and over again. Your old patterns will begin to fade away. As this new pathway becomes stronger and stronger. With each repetition, you're literally training your brain to prefer the new route Our minds embodies. Crave the familiar. The familiar is. Safe. It will always choose the most familiar path. So if you wanna change your life or change your identity, repeat, repeat, repeat the thought, the belief, the feeling, or the action. Repetition is key. And then number three, environment. You can use your environment to interrupt these neural pathways. If you wanna stop doing something that you've always done, you need something to interrupt your flow or your routine. An example of this is what I talked about in the beginning, putting a note next to the coffee machine. What does that do? It takes you off autopilot. And has your brain focus on something new. Visual reminders are a great way to break up your routine. Create cues in your environment that support you in the changes you want to make because your surroundings will either trigger your old pathways or reinforce your new ones. So leave sticky notes, set alarms, set out visual reminders along your path. If you wanna get into the habit of going outside for a walk first thing in the morning, set your tennis shoes next to your bed. If you wanna eat salads for lunch, put them in the front of the refrigerator where you can't miss them. If you wanna start a new skincare routine, set the new bottles out on your vanity. If you wanna start reading at night. Set a book on your bedside table if you want to increase your self-confidence. Invest in clothes to wear every day that make you feel confident. Hang affirmations on your mirror. If you want a calmer or more peaceful workday, declutter your desk. Create some ambiance through calming music or scent. Environment can make or break you. And this isn't just about adding in, it's also about removing things and even people from your environment that trigger the old patterns. If you wanna stop eating so much junk food, get rid of all the junk food in the house. If you wanna quit smoking, don't hang out with your smoker friends. It doesn't mean you can never hang out with them again or ever eat junk food again. It just means you need some time to reinforce the new pathway before it will be strong enough to put yourself in those situations again. It's not what you do every once in a while that defines you. It's what you do every day. It's your habitual behaviors. This is what creates you. This is what creates your life. If you're grabbing a snack in bed every night at 10:00 PM you're gonna see the results of that behavior. But here's the thing, if you wanna change that habit, you just have to be aware when the trigger goes off and power through for a little while, yes, it's going to be hard at first. There is an obvious and comfortable path. Your brain wants to follow, but it won't always be hard, and that's what you have to remind yourself. It's only hard at first until you create the new habit, and then it's just a part of you. You don't have to think about it at all. You won't even feel hungry when you get into bed. The more you do it, the more often you do it, the better and faster you'll get at it, the quicker it becomes second nature for you. Okay. And then we have emotion. We've talked about this before as well, when we discussed how to reprogram the subconscious mind, which is basically what neuroplasticity is. It's repetition. And emotion. Emotion is the secret sauce that makes the wiring stick. When you add feeling to a thought or behavior, your brain releases chemicals like dopamine, which say, Hey, this is important. Remember this. So if you're practicing a new thought, don't just say it flatly. Feel it. Visualize that reality and feel the feelings as though it's already occurred. Smile when you say it. Focus your attention on your heart and feel it expanding as you say, or think the words. For example, don't just repeat, I am worthy. Close your eyes. Breathe into your heart, and imagine what that feels like. See yourself living from that truth. Shoulders back, smiling at peace. That emotional energy lights up more neurons in the brain and fuses them together faster. And then the last step is reflection, which actually goes right along with emotion because you want to start celebrating every time you walk. The new path. Note, every single small win, that little burst of pride and joy also releases dopamine. And dopamine tells your brain, yes, do that again. So even if you've caught yourself. Once out of 10 times, that's still progress. Your brain learns best through encouragement, not shame If you're trying to work out every day, but you only get it in once this week, completely ignore the nine times you faltered and celebrate that one time like you just conquered the world. Constantly be in reflection of the wins, not the losses or the misses, because that's also reinforcing that pathway. You've gotta start recognizing the wins and looking for them because it will create more of them. At night when you're about to fall asleep, mentally replay the times you caught yourself doing something differently. That simple act strengthens those circuits while you sleep. It's like hitting. Save on your new programming. So awareness starts the change. Repetition builds the path, environment supports it, emotion cements it, and reflection multiplies it.

Speaker 2 26:25

Okay, so thinking about this, Kim, I have to talk about things that have been happening in my life that I think is absolutely wild. Okay, so. Like I said earlier, I tuned into my cycle and neuro pathways that really went into that, and then I got to thinking, about relationships on this and holding people to the past. When I haven't even talked to them in like 10 years. But I'm still holding them to who I thought they were. 10 years ago, And it's like, oh, well that person was always very dismissive back then. Well, they were dismissive 10 years ago, but I'm still telling that story. They could be a completely different person. 10 years fast forward, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. So it was a go-to response of, and this was someone that was like a super old friend a long time ago, and, uh, another friend of mine brought it up and was like, oh, have you talked to so and so? And I was like, nah, girl. That person is in the past, blah, blah, blah. And then I got to thinking, anytime this person's name is brought up. My brain goes to how dismissive this person was, but also I'm holding them to a past version of themselves. They could have completely changed. So now, anytime that person's name comes up, I now I do have that trigger response of, oh, that person is a dismissive person. But I still have that thought. But then I also tag onto it. Something to put them more in a positive light. And so now this week, it's anytime this person's name has been brought up, because this is a spiritual lesson, right? So now all my guides and angels are bringing up this person consistently, which is so great for my learning. And so now this week. It is, you know what? That person makes me feel really nostalgic when I think of them. And so now it is this positive reference to, oh, that person, you know, brings up all these nostalgic memories and all of that. And what's also interesting is that, with all my mentoring clients and. And coaching clients, which are different by the way. So my mentoring clients, I mentor them in their psychic and medium mystic abilities. My coaching clients, on the other hand, we work with neuroplasticity manifest. Station real life, everyday problems. We do work on intuition because all of my clients are intuitive, whether they know it or not, but with my coaching clients specifically, watching them grow over the course of the past year has been mind blowing because of neuroplasticity manifestation. And they're getting it and they're seeing. Oh, the more open I am and the more present I am, the more blessings that I get. But it's all about creating these new pathways and then going down them, and it can feel scary. I just wanna talk about this. Also, creating new habits is scary and anxiety ridden for some people. They don't think that they can do it, and it can be the smallest change. So if you're trying to make a big, huge change in your life, like maybe. Go for the big whammy at first. Maybe you just do like what Kim example is and you just try to take a vitamin at the same time every day, and you start there and then you build up your muscle, you build up your strength to where maybe you're like, okay, I'm gonna. Eat fish twice a week now because I need more omega threes. And then you incorporate that and, then it's the big change. So it doesn't have to be straight into the big change play around with this experiment. I love experimenting, especially with science and spirituality. It's my jam, so I love playing around with it. One of the weird things that I did that I did not. Do for the podcast, but it ties in. So I love Mary Ruth Organics, supplements. I love them. I love David Gingham, the whole company, what they stand for, all of that. And I use a lot of their vitamins. Well, a few of their vitamins are liquid. Okay. And I had all of my liquid vitamins downstairs in my kitchen in one area, and then I went upstairs to take all of my. Capsule vitamins in my bedroom. And I was like, you know what, I'm gonna bring all of my vitamins upstairs into the, en suite and I just have one liquid vitamin in my refrigerator. Okay. So do you know how many times I went to bed over the course of the last two weeks without taking my liquid vitamin that's in the refrigerator every day? Like consistently, I would walk back down the stairs and Nicholas would be like, forgot your vitamin again. Huh? And I was like, yep. And I will say. Finally this week, I have remembered to take it every single night before heading upstairs to take the rest of my vitamins. So it took me about two weeks to not forget. Now, granted, I do get sleepy and all of those things contribute to it. So don't, do not get frustrated with yourself. Over a two week period of forgetfulness or anything like that because it does take time and space. Now I'm rocking and rolling. I'm taking all the vitamins sister, like I got it down pat, but it does, it takes your brain time to create these, these new things because sister, I'm ritualistic. I do the same thing every morning, every night in the exact same order. And I can't go outta order'cause it trips me up. So like, when I go to bed at night, I have my routine. If I get outta syn or outta step, I'm like, wait, what am I doing? And so doing that gave myself a lot of insight, adds to how my brain worked. But don't get, don't fret my friends. Give yourself time. Be

Speaker 33:17

gentle.

Speaker 3 33:18

Yeah,

Speaker 33:19

when you were talking about routines and being very ritualistic, I'm the exact same way. Like I have a schedule every day in the morning and evening that I follow. And I actually think this is a really great way to reinforce neural pathways. So. I have a written out schedule for every day, and I've done this for probably like 10 years. Where I used to have it in, the paper planners. Now everything's digital. Mm-hmm. I use, notion to organize my life, but it's kind of like a habit tracker, I guess. But it goes through, each moment of the day and what I'm gonna be doing in that moment. Um, some people would call this anal, but it works for me. So, um, but that it's always changing. I'm always updating it. And one of the things that I do, and the, the reason why it really works for me is because I'm looking at it every minute of the day. Right? Right. So it's this reminder of what comes next? What do I not wanna forget? There's things like. Like you said, take your vitamins, go on my morning, walk. Those kind of things. But then I'm also putting things on there, maybe just one or two of things that I want to be doing during that time of the day that I'm not quite there yet, but I've scheduled out a moment in time where that's time for that. So for example. Working out. I wanna work out every afternoon. I used to just work out, 2, 3, 4 times a week. But I realized that I wasn't consistent with that. And I know myself, and if I want to be consistent with something, I need to do it every day. Mm-hmm. And so maybe I'm not lifting heavy weights every single day, but I can sure have 30 minutes where I'm doing something active. In the afternoon where it's workout time to get myself into that routine. And this has really helped me because I'm putting things on there that I'm not yet doing that I want to do. I'm seeing it all day, every day, and that check mark missing on the things that I've not quite gotten to yet. Mm-hmm. And that's really, when we talk about environment, that's a great way to prime your environment for. These new neuro pathways. So I just thought that that was interesting that you mentioned that. But you know, I also have different situations in my life where, there's emotional neuro pathways, dinner time. For example, I hate dinner time. I hate thinking about what to cook. I hate cooking. My kids are in their picky stage. I have this whole thought loop of, oh gosh, it's dinner time. Yes, yes. And they're not going to eat anything I cook anyway, so, I might as well just make pizza or whatever. And so I have, I've been catching myself on that, and it's like, wait a minute. I am reinforcing that reality for myself by having the same. Mm-hmm. Negative thought loop every single day. And so I have to catch myself and go, no, this is dinner time. This is our favorite time of the day. We get to sit around the table as a family, we get to share. We share our peak in our pit from the day and hear all about each other's days. This is a great time. And if they don't eat it, they don't eat it. But I'm gonna make something healthy and I'm gonna put it on the table and this is gonna be our time together and this is our healthy family time together, uhhuh. So I'm really like reinforcing that in my mind every single day.

Speaker 2 36:42

You just reminded me of something from childhood that is a complete neuropath way, and it has to do with being a kid and being a picky eater. Mm-hmm. So, in my family, you had to eat what was on your plate. Or else you didn't eat anything and you had to sit at the table until it was gone. Like my parents were so old school. Right. They did it outta love. And I remember like my dad made split pea soup and I was like four, so it was green and I didn't wanna eat it. And I sat there all night. All night. He eventually gave in,'cause he was like, you are stubborn as a mule. Still am. But That created a neuro pathway in my brain, Kim, because still to this day, and this is something that I've had to work on when I have food on my plate, I used to feel like I had to finish it in its entirety. And that created this neuro pathway of, I don't wanna waste food. I have to eat everything on my plate. I have to be grateful for it. And yeah, isn't that crazy? And that's something that I had to work on as an adult. Like I don't have to eat everything on my plate. And I also like don't have to have the portions that everybody else has. I can eat what I want, all of those things. But I had to give myself fruition. Yeah.

Speaker 38:11

To do that. Well, when you think about it, that was a highly emotional experience for you as a child, right? You were totally disgusted and you were forced to sit for however long, which is hard for a child. And then mm-hmm. You're probably hungry, but you don't wanna eat that. Highly emotional. Yeah. Um, and so that's, yes, that's what creates neural pathways. It's interesting that you say that because. Yeah. That used to be, what, what was it? A happy plate. Um, that was kind of the way that we all grew up. You need to finish your plate, which of course we now know. Is awful for kids because, it kills their intuitive eating abilities. Yes. You know, they override their hunger cues or override their fullness cues. So it's just interesting. But yeah, of course that would create a neural pathway for you because super. Super high emotionally charged for a child. Mm-hmm. Um, and love our parents. They were just doing the best they could, but amen.

Speaker 2 39:07

But also, like, the good thing is, is that there is not a food I won't eat. You know, so I love fruits and vegetables, like I love healthy food, and I totally give all of that to my parents because they forced me to eat everything. So now I eat everything now.

Speaker 39:23

Yeah. I have to say too, since we're on this subject, I'm a vegetarian and I've been a vegetarian for. I don't know, 15 years maybe. I mean, it's been a long time. Mm-hmm. But I definitely have a negative thought loop revolving around any kind of meals that involve other people, parties, where there's gonna be food served. Um, you know, I don't ever want. Anybody to have to make something different for me. And so like, there's just this whole, wait, well, what am I gonna cook that, you know, other people are gonna enjoy? That also is in line with the way that I eat. Yeah. And I have this whole negative thought loop around it, even though it's really, it's not, I mean, there's tons of vegetarians in the world, you know? Yeah. Like there's plenty of things you can make, but for whatever reason, I think because when I started to become a vegetarian, it was something that was. Super, like highly sensitive about. Mm-hmm. And I didn't wanna talk about it with people because I didn't want, you know, I didn't want it to look like I was judging them by any means for how they ate. Um, yeah. And again, you didn't want to be like this problem for people where they had to make something separate for you. Um, and so, yeah, like trying to, when it, when I first started, those negative thought loops still affect me to this day. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 40:37

Yeah, I was a vegetarian for like 10 years and, or maybe a little bit shorter than that. And so my family didn't comprehend what that was at all whatsoever. And they're like, oh, you're a vegetarian. I cook you shrimp. Okay. And I'm like, what?

Speaker 3 40:56

I have to tell you real quick, Kyle,

Speaker 40:58

I love Kyle's dad. Um, God bless his heart, he. He's passed away now, but he was one of my favorite people. I mean, if you think Kyle is awesome, like he's a remake of his dad. Oh, that's great. And he's so funny and he's so caring and loving, but he could not fathom what a vegetarian was either. You know? Like he would tell me if he had a salad, look, I'm a vegetarian now. You know, like that. But he also would, he would work so hard to make things,'cause he was a big cook too, to make things. For me, and he would be like, yeah, so I got Turkey bacon for you, and I'm like,

Speaker 2 41:35

oh my God.

Speaker 3 41:38

Anyways, I had to insert that because it's hilarious, right? It always cracks me up thinking about it.

Speaker 2 41:43

It's hilarious because like in some people's minds, fishes not meat, because if you grow up Catholic, you don't eat meat on Fridays, you eat. Fish. So it's like never put that together, you know? You're like, now that's called a pescatarian now.

Speaker 41:58

Yes. And people, yeah. And people confuse, vegetarian with vegan as well. I had a fan and I'm like, no, give me the cheese. I need the cheese.

Speaker 2 42:07

Right. I just had a fantastic idea. Kim, guess what? We're gonna do an episode on what Intuitive eating.

Speaker 42:16

Oh yeah, we definitely need to do that.

Speaker 2 42:18

I'm gonna need you to lead that one. Yes. We we're putting it on the list. We're going into intuitive eating. We're doing it. Yes. Perfect.

Speaker 42:28

Yes. We'll have to do that episode as well. So now that everyone understands what neuroplasticity really is and how to use it intentionally, let's bring this full circle because this isn't just about forming habits. This is about becoming someone new. When you change your thoughts, you change the energy your brain fires on, and when you change that energy, you change how you feel. And when you change how you feel, your actions, your relationships, your results, they all begin to shift. Your external world starts mirroring your internal wiring. And here's the truth, most people miss. Transformation isn't a single big moment. It's hundreds of micro moments, tiny choices that slowly teach your brain a new way of being. Every time you pause before reacting, every time you. Be kindness instead of criticism. Every time you choose calm over chaos or gratitude over guilt, you are literally reshaping the architecture of your mind. You're laying down new neural trails, new emotional landscapes, new energetic signatures that match the life you wanna live. We live most of our lives in reaction running old programs, but neuroplasticity gives you the power to move into creation. You are not at the mercy of your past conditioning. You are the artist of your own wiring. So when you catch yourself slipping into an old story, just smile and remember, that's your brain. Trying to save energy by sticking to what it knows. It's not failure, it's familiarity. So here's your challenge for the week. Pick one pattern you'd like to rewire. Maybe it's negative self-talk. Maybe it's procrastination. Maybe it's a daily emotion, like frustration or guilt. Just notice it, pause when it appears, and choose one new thought, one new feeling, or one new action in that moment. That's it. One conscious choice repeated daily begins a new neural trail. Keep walking it with awareness, with emotion, with celebration, and one day soon you'll realize that the old path isn't even there anymore. You didn't change your habit, you changed your brain. And when you change your brain, you change your life. Remember that your brain is always listening to your thoughts, your feelings, your focus. So speak to it with love. Teach it who you are becoming. You are the sculptor of your mind. And never forget that your potential is infinite.

Speaker 2 45:02

All right guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. Today's episode was something else. Thank you for listening. Like subscribe and share and we will see you next week.