152 Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: Direct Your Brain For Change

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

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Books & works: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess

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