Overcomming Anxiety Part 1 Default Mode Network

fantastic video yet again :) 

just a question on the BDNF and depression connection. 

essentially will you heal faster if you have more BDNF. basically the more BDNF the faster you heal?

lets say you're doing everything right. diet perfect, stress non-existent, inflammation completely stopped..... after this is it essentially, the more BDNF you have the faster you heal. 

if someone had 100% increase BDNF for example would someone with 200% BDNF increase heal faster. 

thanks for your knowledge :) 

also a quick one on the balance between dopamine and serotonin... will taking serotonin precursors (5htp) lead to depleted dopamine levels if you dont stack it with a dopamine precursor.... this is plastered round the internet, apparently they use the same enzyme for conversion, and saturating the enzyme with 1 precursor will cause the other to become unbalanced (low)

Did you release your video where you show the meditation brain training techniques?

Brilliant video. This channel deserves more viewers

now imagine dealing with an anxious default mode network while doing a masters in engineering? I finally feel real sympathy for myself. Could easily be used as a form of torture.

if you have wired your brain in a way that has produced too many stress synapses (norepinephrine and epinephrine).... how do you shrink these?

i understand how to use techniques to stimulate the growth of calming brain synapses (serotonin gaba etc).

ive been doing a lot of research on this. it seems activities that stimulate stress pathways can outgrow the stress system (norepinephrine and epinephrine) and wire that way.

and activities that stimulate the anti anxiety pathways (serotonin and gaba) such as some forms of meditation and exercise.... can grow these pathways and wire that way.

i understand that bit. but the part i dont understand is how to shrink back the part you dont want. stimulating the good parts to grow via meditation and exercise i get..... but stripping back the bad wiring i dont understand how you do that.

any info on this?

My mind has fear of death and the thought one will not exost one day. How do I stop this distressing fear. Has caused me lots of burning pain in my head. Any ideas are welcome

Role of PCC in precipitating DMN is really excellent💯👍👏. Thank you Sir

What if it was triggered by an actual threat/wrong doing tho? ( still doesn’t feel great that the reaction is this intense ofc 😕 )

I think this is also the cause of stammering

I have just started really looking into the DMN and TPN, it has been quite a revelation tying other theories and practices together. My superficial knowledge woudl see it as the active thinking mind doing tasks V the ruminative mind analyzing and reflecting too much. Then this over rumination reinforces itself and what the mind uses as reference for threat, anxiety thinking patterns come from it's own "warped" practices .. making action and a way out harder.

To here about the importance of having a good body of work, the devil makes use of idle hands, have a purpose, stoic wisdom, pro active psychology etc are all have true, but to see the underlying mechanism makes what can be platitudes , very real and easy to grasp.

A takeaway from my research and your excellent video, if you are anxious and ruminating it is highly likely you are in the DMN so much it is damaging you action TPN which doubles back and encourages more rumination. To find tasks that challenge an occupy your mind seems like a simple way out.. of course when anxious in this way we can be very drawn to the rabbit hole of rumination and frozen by it.

It woudl not take a huge leap to see how excessive social media use could really thrown petrol on such a fire.

Thanks for an excellent piece.

Amazing stuff

Thank you for your hard work to help me to understand Mental Health; I hope each new day brings you closer to a full recovery🌻

I am doing research on meditation and its effects on ocd ... This series explained it scientifically which is very rare. Your work has saved me years of effort. Thank you

People might not notice that in none of these videos do you explain how do do step 1 and 2 likely on purpose :)

Thank you so much. Great information.