Hardwiring for Personal Connection: Use this Neuroscientist’s 5 Steps to Change Your Brain

If you commit to having deep personal connections , you can intentionally create those relationships by following this five-step process for changing your brain.

• Gather awareness of how you are feeling.
• Ask yourself “why” questions and reflect on any unconscious thoughts or beliefs that come up.
• Write down the answers to your reflections from step 2.
• Ask yourself how you can reframe your thoughts into possibilities.
• Come up with a simple action you can do when these thoughts and feelings come up again.