Rewiring Your Brain For Love: Turning Old Triggers Into New Connections

28/02/2025 27 min Temporada 1 Episodio 1

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In this powerful coaching call, Angela Herron dives into the transformative process of rewiring your brain for love. Whether you’re trying to cultivate more love in your personal relationships, respond with more patience and compassion, or break free from habitual emotional reactions, this episode provides practical strategies to shift your mindset and emotional patterns.Angela shares personal stories, actionable techniques, and mindset shifts that help listeners interrupt old triggers and create a life rooted in love, joy, and peace — all through the science of neuroplasticity and intentional behavior change.Key Takeaways & Steps for Rewiring Your Brain for LoveStep 1: Recognize You Are Not Your Mind or EmotionsYou are not your automatic thoughts or reactive emotions.Observe your reactions from a third-party perspective — practice curiosity instead of judgment.Key Questions:Where is this reaction coming from?Why did I respond this way?Am I reacting to an old belief rather than the present moment?✅ Takeaway: You can choose to respond intentionally rather than react automatically.Step 2: Understand the Root Cause of Your FeelingsQuote to Remember:The cause of our feelings is our needs, not other people’s behavior.Identify unmet needs driving your emotions — is it attention, rest, respect, safety?Many reactions stem from ignoring your own needs (people-pleasing, overgiving, overachieving).✅ Takeaway: Meeting your own needs empowers emotional balance and reduces reactive patterns.Step 3: Take 100% ResponsibilityReframe Responsibility:Being responsible means being empowered — if I’m 100% responsible, I’m 100% capable of changing my life.Even when life feels unfair, owning your reactions gives you back your power.✅ Takeaway: Ownership = Power to change your responses and create the life you want.Step 4: Rewrite Old Programming80% of core beliefs are formed between ages 1-7.Your responses are often based on outdated programming, not present reality.Example: Growing up with scarcity mindsets ("money doesn’t grow on trees") can cause hoarding behaviors even when financially secure.Update your inner programming by aligning beliefs with the reality you want to create.✅ Takeaway: Identify old beliefs that no longer serve you and consciously replace them with supportive beliefs.Step 5: Interrupt the Cycle – Use Somatic InterruptionReactions become automatic habits.When triggered, break the pattern by doing something silly or unexpected.Examples: Dance, howl at the sky, make a funny noise, or change your physical position.This somatic interruption helps create space for intentional responses rather than automatic reactions.✅ Takeaway: Interrupting reactive patterns rewires your brain, creating pathways for love, joy, and calm.Practical ExerciseIdentify your most frequent emotional trigger (anger, frustration, defensiveness, etc.).When triggered, pause and do something playful or physically different to break the automatic emotional pattern.Over time, this retrains your brain to respond differently.