What Downloads Are You Allowing?

Well into people's 70s, it used to be that people believed that the brain was developed completely just after 20s and that then we started degenerating. Not true. We actually can regenerate and create new brain cells as younger people and then also people well into their 70s. They're still doing research on like when that actually stops and they don't even know.

But that's amazing, right? If we know that we can continually retrain our brain, we can continually put things into our brain that helps it grow for the better. Then again, it's going to affect our energy level. It's again going to help us vibrate at a higher level.

Welcome to the Thrive Her podcast. I'm your host, Amy Sanders. I'm a fitness and wellness pro, mom, stepmom, second wife and master certified lifesaver. Coach.

I'm here to help you manage your mind so you can uncover the most potent version of yourself and create a thriving life you love. Hello, everyone. I am so glad to be here today. I'm your host, Amy Sanders on the Thrive Her podcast, and I am excited today to bring to you a random podcast.

I want to talk today about the brain. Very exciting. Actually, it's super. Very exciting.

I'm obsessed with the brain. I always have been because it's an amazing, an amazing thing that continually works every day, all day, and we can make it work better for us, or we can do things that actually hinder the brain. And so, yeah, I don't think I've really ever talked about how much I love the brain on the podcast, but that's what we're going to do today. And the reason for this podcast is because it's just been on my mind actually for weeks about.

Just how incredible our brain is and how much noise and busyness is out there in the world today to where our brain really takes a toll and it really affects the rest of our body. So, if you tuned in to the podcast a couple weeks ago, I talked to you about feminine versus masculine energy and the difference between the two. I talked about how you could use them together to help you. And then also how to.

Tune into your feminine energy better so that you can essentially vibe higher and attract more into your life. And if you've been listening to the podcast for any time at all, you know that I am really big on thought management as well as manifesting and being in alignment with who you are and what you are supposed to do in this world. Because ultimately when you. Step into that.

Place. That's like your true self. Things work so much easier for you. You're able to attract the things that you want so much faster.

And so as I was talking about this a couple weeks ago, I talked to you again about feminine versus masculine. We kind of went through the vibration scale. And that's actually where we're going to start today because it matters. And when you think about energy, so feminine versus masculine energy as a whole, energy is something that is there whether we want to believe it or not.

And it runs through our bodies all the time. It's basically running through everything, always, no matter what. And when we are vibrating at a low energy and we're not in sync with who we really are, we will attract more of that low vibe energy. And I want you to think about really anyone.

It might even be yourself in your life right now where things just don't seem to work out for that person. One person I have in mind. She. Has been in victim mode for as long as I've ever known her and.

Things go wrong in her life all of the time. It's like she's just completely attracted this low vibe energy to where her car always breaks down. They always have crazy money issues and they get hit hard with money issues like big things. And she talks about money all the time.

It's, you know, just those things where whatever you're resisting persists and whatever you think about. Continuously, you attract more of that into your life. And so it's important for us to understand as we get talking about the brain that the vibration scale matters and we have a choice as to how we want to vibrate and the vibration scale. I'm going to go over some of the vibrations that you can experience, and I want you just to check in with yourself as they go through this list to see where you are and another.

I thought that comes up as I say this is think to yourself where your kids might be or where your partner might be because. Again, it matters. So the vibrations scale, it's always going. We always have energy in us that is flowing through us and we get to decide what we do with that.

We get to decide whether we're going to be happy or not. We get to decide how we react to any given situation. And the very middle of the scale is boredom. That's why I wanted you.

Think about your kids or your partner or yourself. How often are you bored or do your kids come to you saying I'm bored? That is the middle of the vibration scale. Now, as you spiral upward, the emotions I'm just going to list them off are like more positive emotions, optimism, belief in self, hopefulness, contentment.

And as I say these, I'm actually going up the scale, by the way. Enthusiasm, happiness, passion, powered. Love, freedom, joy, like love, freedom and joy are actually the top of the spiral. So think about how often your heart is like open and you're feeling love.

You're feeling love for the plants. You're feeling love for your partner. You're feeling love for your kids. You're feeling love for the people that maybe annoy you.

Who knows? But the more you feel love, the higher you're going to vibe. Now, going down the scale from boredom is frustration, pessimism, irritation. Impatience, worry, doubt, anger, rage, hatred, jealousy, shame, guilt, powerlessness.

The bottom of the vibration scale is going to be guilt, jealousy, shamefulness, powerlessness. And I think that's interesting to bring up because anger is like higher than that. Doubt and worry are higher than that, but they still are lower vibrational. And so as I'm talking, I want you to just think about where you are right now and where you feel like you land regularly, how often you're able to stay in a higher vibration.

Again, knowing that the higher we vibrate, the higher the vibration, the more we're going to attract into our lives that's good. The more we are going to feel better about ourselves, our life, which again, attracts more. But why I wanted to bring up those like negative emotions, the guilt, shame, jealousy is because I know so many people struggle with shame. So many people struggle with guilt, and it's actually some of the very lowest vibrations you can experience.

So if you are experiencing some of those lower vibrations frequently, I would say hire a coach, join our Thrive Her Academy, do anything that you need to do to get out of that space and heal some of those blocks so that you can start attracting more into your life. Now, with all of this said, I'm going to shift gears a little bit and talk about the brain, because if we understand that we're vibrating at a certain frequency, there is a way for us to vibe at an even higher frequency, allowing our brain to work better for us and allowing our brain to essentially be nourished the way that it needs to be nourished. So if energy is always running through our body, let's do the best that we can with what we've got. And we do have a choice, like we get to decide how we want to feel about certain situations.

If something really... If something really hard happens, we can be sad about it, and we can also still keep our heart open. We can do both at the same time, even though it might sound like that's hard to do. You can do both.

So when it comes to our brain, our brain is super fascinating. It has so many synapses. I probably should have like researched it exactly before the podcast that I could tell you exactly, but the brain can continually regenerate cells, new brain cells. Well into people's 70s.

It used to be that people believed that the brain was developed completely just after 20s, and that then we started degenerating. Not true. We actually can regenerate and create new brain cells as younger people, and then also people well into their 70s. They're still doing research on like when that actually stops, and they don't even know.

But that's amazing, right? If we know that we can continually retrain our brain, we can continually put things in our brain that helps it grow for the better, then again, it's going to affect our energy level. It's again going to help us vibrate at a higher level. So brain downloads.

What are downloads? Downloads are basically data, information, or how you treat your brain essentially. And I like to think of it as a computer. So everything you allow into your brain and your body are going to be downloads, and our brain is the computer.

And if you think about a computer, there's a bunch of things that can go wrong with a computer that make it run slower. And I want you to think about this as I go through the computer, that your brain does the same thing. So if a computer has a malware or a virus, it can totally, if it has viruses, not a malware, if it has a virus, it's not going to work right. In fact, you can like totally ruin the whole entire computer by having a virus.

It's like it's sick. Same goes true with the brain. We're going to talk about it in a minute. So if you have a virus.

If you have a fragment in a hard drive, these are files that are saved and removed from the hard drive, and then they can become shattered. Defragmenting your hard drive can help you arrange the data to tidy up storage. But when there's too much in that hard drive, it becomes fragmented. It's like too much information essentially in the brain.

Too many startup programs. If you have too many programs that are going on in your computer, it's going to cause your computer to run slower. Having a full hard drive, which is similar to what I just talked about. If your hard drive is full or nearly full, your computer is going to run slowly.

In fact, I just had to get a new computer because my hard drive was so full of so many things that like I had pop-ups all the time happening on my computer was so annoying. And then my computer would crash all the time. But that was my fault, right? I needed to clean up the hard drive.

Another thing that goes wrong with computers is too many background programs, many applications that use memory. And when they're not in use, it can slow down your computer. So too many programs, outdated software, inadequate hardware, overheating, might be that your computer is overheating, or poorly designed programs. So all of these are reasons why your computer can run slowly.

And when you look at this next to the brain, it's like very similar. When we have too much information, we're consuming too much information and putting too much in our brain. We're like really can't process it. It's going to run slower.

When we're tired, it's going to run slower. When we have a virus, aka, I'm going to talk about that in a minute, actually, what viruses can be, it's going to cause it to run slower. When it's overheating, the computer overheats, it's going to cause it to run slower. That could be when we're working too hard.

We're not allowing our brain that meditation that it needs to. Okay, so I want you to think about downloads that you download. That's data going into the computer. That's information going into the computer.

The same is true with your brain. So what are some bad downloads? And then we'll move to good downloads. So bad downloads.

And this is a short list. I could have made it much longer, but I didn't. I didn't. Because I'm sure that I've got your mind going and you can think of some more.

But a few that I came up with was a poisoned fruit analogy. Who were you spending time with? Are you spending time with people who lift you up? Who cheer you on, who believe in you, who think you're awesome, who totally are there for you through thick and thin?

Or are you spending time with people who are essentially poisoning you? Right now, it's October as I'm recording this, and we just harvested tons of fruit and vegetables and everything from our garden. And it's so interesting because anytime you put bad piece of fruit, near good fruit, it is only a matter of hours before it starts affecting the good fruit and that the good fruit start rotting. That is what I want you to think about when it comes to yourself and who you decide to associate with.

The vibrations that other people are vibing on, are they poisoning you? Are they causing you to talk worse about people? Are they causing you to feel less than? Do they put you down?

Think about who you are hanging around with. It's a super important decision. Like birds of a feather flock together. That's been a saying forever.

And it's because it's true. You become who you hang around. So who is it that you're hanging around? Another bad downloads music.

Music can be amazingly powerful, but it can also be the opposite. If it's not clean or it's like, maybe it cusses all the time. Now what this is said, I don't like no judgment here. If you like to swear, that's fine.

As long as it's not affecting your. True or higher self. Okay. It's like music can be damaging in the fact that it takes away from your higher vibration and you're going to know for yourself, whether or not that is you or not like pornography or any kind of other addictive behaviors, drugs, anything like that, that is going to take you away from your higher self is going to be a bad download or a bad thing that you're putting into your body.

Gossiping can sound really fun, but ultimately it is damaging the words that come out of your mouth are damaging. Words are so powerful. You can use them for good. You can also use them for bad.

And I want you to think about who you want to be in this world. Who is it that you are inside? What does she do? Like your higher self?

What does she do? How does she speak about people? How does she speak to herself? Really think about who you are and who you want to be.

And if you are stepping into that position of your higher. Self by how you're showing up through your actions, another bad download, which is like so common, I don't even know what to say about is scrolling on social media, watching all of the TikToks, watching all the little videos, spending just loads of time mindlessly scrolling on social media. That is a bad download because it's not stimulating your brain. It's mindless.

It's not really pushing your brain to do something new or pushing your body to do something new. It's not creating new synapses, especially if you're doing it too quickly. Like that dopamine hit videos that are like shorter videos that are those little clips now that just gets you watching them over and over and over every single time you do something like that, it's like a dopamine hit. And so if you're not truly consuming the information in a way that is helpful to your brain, it can be very addictive.

It goes back to like also porn, right? Another thing that I put down was mindlessly binging Netflix. Like. Watching show after show that is mindless.

It doesn't stimulate your brain. And a lot of times when you've been to Netflix, sometimes you just need to, right? Sometimes you're just like, I've had a day. I need to binge Netflix.

I just want to tune out and do nothing. There's nothing wrong with that. But when it's coming, when it's affecting your daily, when it's affecting you from becoming who you know that you can be, that's when it's a problem. So those are the things that are just a short list of bad.

Downloads. I'm sure you can think of more, but as you go through today, I want you to really think about your brain is like a computer. What are you downloading into your brain? What are you allowing to live in your brain and also in your body?

So to help your brain grow, to help your brain be healthy, there's a bunch of things you can do and they're not hard. And you've heard them. You've heard all of them. The first one thing is read books.

When you actually read a book, listening to a book is great. That's stimulating your brain. But when you read it, it does even more for you. It really helps your brain, those synapses and those cells regenerate and grow.

One of my favorite books is The Four Agreements. It is an amazing book. If you haven't read it, I totally recommend reading it because it's along these lines as well. But books help stimulate your brain.

Putting all that good information in your brain helps. Also podcasts, like things that are going to enlighten you, help you become a better person. Those things are good. Meditation.

More important today than it ever has because of what it can do for the brain. With our brain being so busy and with our so many downloads coming into our brain, everything that we do, like what we decide to eat, all of the different choices we even have to make. Those are also downloads, like thinking through your day. All of these are downloads, scrolling through social media, everything that you do.

So when it comes to meditation, giving your brain that break, letting it just be has never been more important. And it doesn't have to take a lot of time. But when you meditate, you actually help improve your cognitive functions like focus, concentration, memory, learning. Meditation is so, so important.

So if it is not in your practice, seriously, start it. Even if it's five minutes a day. There is like this amazing app that I use every single day. It's called Insight Timer.

Use it. Find it. Use it. And watch your life change.

The next one is exercise. And this can be really any form of exercise. This can be yoga. This can be running.

This can be really anything. Weight training. Because as you exercise, you increase blood flow and oxygen to the brain, which will help the brain from age-related reductions in brain connections. Amazing, right?

Increases that blood flow to our brain. We need oxygen in the brain so that we can think clearly. This is going to help with brain fog as well. Uplifting music.

When you listen to uplifting music, you are just going to be able to think clearly. You're doing yourself a major service because you're allowing yourself to vibe higher. It's going to take you higher up on that vibration scale. What's it called?

Vibration scale. So uplifting music, super important. Thoughts. Now this one, we talk about a lot because it really is where we start.

When you work on your thoughts, when you become aware of how you're thinking about others, how you're thinking about yourself, how you're thinking about your day, and when you work, you work on changing negative thoughts that you have by yourself to positive ones. You immediately increase your vibration. You immediately help your brain create new synapses, and it totally changes your life. Talking kindly to yourself.

Same thing around these thoughts. Like, what are you saying to yourself? Would you dare say that to anyone else? Because if the answer is no, then you shouldn't be saying it to yourself.

When you learn how to love yourself at a new level, again, you're going to be living higher on that vibration scale, which brings everything else you want into your life. So important. Eating healthy. So eating healthy will give your brain the nutrients that it actually needs, right?

Eating healthy. Make sure you're getting your greens. Make sure you're getting fruit. Make sure you are also eating protein and fats.

All of them are important. All of them help with brain functioning. Fats are actually something that helps with brain functioning more than like any of the other things. In my opinion.

That's my opinion. But that's what I believe. When it comes back to your thoughts, when you feel triggered or when you feel kind of alarmed, work on healing that. Ask yourself the questions like, what is it that triggered me and why?

Because if you're getting triggered, you probably have work to do there to heal that so that you don't get triggered. And it might be that the triggering, you need to change what you're doing so that you don't get triggered. Or you can work through those triggers and heal that. Only you're going to know.

But again, that will help your brain. When you're not feeling triggered in the brain, the brain functions better. Continually practicing a new skill, doing something new that helps you stay mentally active. I'm always doing something new.

Always. I'm always learning something new. I'm reading something new. I am challenging my brain, getting creative, whatever.

Some of the things that I'm doing to challenge my brain and my body is I took up pole dancing. Not stripper pole, but pole dancing. I took up pole dancing just to learn something new that I had never done before. I love to dance and I'm like, I have never pole danced.

Let's learn how to do this. And it has been so interesting of how much I have to use my brain because you're different on the pole. The way you're pushing and pulling and lifting and extending, your brain really needs to think about where you're going to put your arm next so that you don't fall off the pole. It has been amazing to do something like that.

I also color a lot nowadays, just getting creative with coloring and realizing that I get a color in the lines or out of lines, however I want to, but doing something mentally active, even crosswords, whatever you're doing that is helping you develop a new skill is going to help increase myelin, which is a substance that protects the white matter in the brain, a super important substance in the brain by just pushing yourself a little bit. Also, along these lines, like memorizing, when you can memorize something, it totally helps build that myelin. So work on doing something that keeps you mentally active every single day. Getting enough sleep is also super important because when you get enough sleep, you're going to learn, you're going to not learn, you're going to cleanse the abnormal proteins in the brain and cognitive functioning.

So getting enough sleep helps repair the brain in the way that it needs to get. The last one that I think is also super important is building social networks. When you're caring for your emotions and you're building social networks, you're making friends and you're getting out of your normal day. This also helps keep your brain healthy.

It helps keep your entire soul healthy, I believe, too, because the world is all about connections. We are all about meeting people and connecting and feeling like we matter. And when we aren't building those social networks, we can feel like something is missing. And so as you do, you're going to feel much more fulfilled.

And because you learn from other people, you're going to be able to be pushing your brain a little bit as well. So those are my list of good downloads. I had a longer list of good than bad because I want you to think about what you can implement into your life right now. How often are you reading books, listening to podcasts?

How often are you meditating? How often are you working on your thought downloads? How you're talking to yourself, what you're putting in your body? Managing stress.

I don't think I said this one, but managing stress is also good because it increases your alertness and it increases your performance. This goes along with what triggers you. Figure it out so that you can have a healthier brain. Be active.

Get mentally active. All of these things are so important when it comes to taking care of your brain, which essentially is going to help you live better. It's going to help you be happier. It's going to help you feel more joy.

You're going to feel empowered as you're pushing yourself. You're going to be able to move to new limits by learning new things. All of these things that we've talked about today, the good downloads that you can put into your brain are going to bring up your energy levels. And again, as you bring up your energy levels, you vibe higher.

And as you vibe higher, you attract more of what you want into your life. So important. And it's just the daily little things that we can do every single day that are going to make the biggest difference. So think about everything I said.

See where you can implement some of the things that I listed today. And see where you're already doing a good job. Recognize that you're doing a good job. And then lean into that as well.

And with that, I am going to sign off. I hope you have a great day. And I will be here next week with another episode. Thanks for tuning in.

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