
152 Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: Direct Your Brain For Change
From What's on Your Bookshelf? by Denise Russo and Zach Elliott
March 4, 2026 · 37 min · Season 4 · Episode 152
About this episode
The episode discusses neuroplasticity practices to improve mental management and emotional responses.
We unpack six neuroplasticity practices from Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess and show how to move from reacting to responding. We share tools for self-regulation, visualization, and the 3:1 positivity shift to build peaceful control that lasts beyond 21 days. • difference between mind management and brain change • active versus dynamic self-regulation • discomfort zones and warning signals • respond not react using the 30–90 second window • Quantum Zeno Effect and 3:1 positivity • Multiple Pers...
People in this episode
Hosts: Denise Russo, Zach Elliott
Topics covered
- neuroplasticity
- self-regulation
- positivity shift
- mind management
- brain change
- emotional response
Keywords
- neuroplasticity
- self-regulation
- positivity
- emotional response
- mind management
- brain change
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
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