No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart

Have you ever want to change your mind? Well what if you changed your brain instead?
In this new episode Steven sits down with neuroscientist, executive advisor and author, Dr Tara Swart Bieber.
Dr Swart, has a PHD in Neuropharmacology and a past successful career medical doctor as a psychiatrist. From there she transferred into becoming a top level leadership coach, specialising in improving mental resilience in CEO’s and helping them to operate at peak brain performance. Her clients include leaders of FTSE100, Fortune 500 and Magic Circle firms. She is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, and the author of the bestselling book, ‘The Source’.

In this conversation Tara and Steven discuss topics, such as:

How emotions are contagious

Neuroscience tricks for love and connection

How Tara uses neuroscience to help leaders

Using neuroscience to handle stress

How stress can make you fat

The way that exercise can combat stress

How the brain cleans itself

The chemical nature of love

How to improve relationships using neuroscience

Why your gut instinct is real

Why the world needs a spiritual revolution

The impact of porn on the brain

How your friendship group impacts your brain and health

The ways to physically change your brain

How trauma can be inherited

How trauma changes your genes

The ways that you can train and strengthen your brain

How exercise can change the brain

The science of the law of attraction and manifestation

Changing the voice in your head

How your thoughts can stop you ageing


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