HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND?

      How many times have you changed your mind today? This past hour? The last minute? We are constantly changing our minds.

      I just woke up. Do I want to get up now or try to get back to sleep for a while?

      I’m in my closet. I think I’ll wear the red shirt. No, wait. Maybe the green one.

      I’m going to work in my car. Do I want to listen to music or a news station?

      Constantly changing our minds. For daily decisions, not a big deal. For life-changing decisions, very much a big deal. Beginning and continuing therapy until your goals are met is a very big deal, and your change involves creating new neuropathways and developing a new normal.

      In The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, I introduce you to a new path of healing, mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT). This is the practice behind Dr. Kristen Lee’s new psychology of thinking, Mentalligence™. I liken mentalligence to a computer system, where the hardware are the physical attributes of your brain, that is, what you’ve got. The software is the accumulation of all your life experiences, that is, how you use what you’ve got.

      Back in the day, developmental neurobiologists concluded that our brains stop growing after about 25 years. After that, you have all the neurons and connections that you are going to have for the rest of your life. However, in the last 20 years of research, we’ve identified the brain’s neuroplasticity, that is, our ability to change our brains and grow for our lifetime. Our brains are neuroplastic in that regard.

      While we are now more inclined to seek psychotherapy for various reasons than ever before, people tend to do so because they want to change themselves in some way. They’ve tried various avenues for change but to no avail. Your therapist is your guide on your healing journey. MPT is a healing strategy that utilizes mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral treatments intertwined to effect lasting change in your brain’s neurochemistry. By staying in the present, finding the positive outcome in your stressors, and maintaining rationality, MPT offers upward spiraling in your life’s healing journey. As you move from conscious awareness to unconscious awareness in your stages of therapy, your brain lets go of unhealthy neural pathways and creates new, healthy neuropathways (neuroplasticity) to sustain the Good Life over time. With mentalligent psychotherapy you will change your mind day by day with a positive outcome.

Blessings,

Dr. Jon