How Med School trained our brain to feel bad.

We learned so many things in Med School.

So many awesome things .

And SO many things that I'll never use again (Krebs cycle anyone?)

But most of all...we TRAINED our brain to look at our world in a certain way.

We were trained to LOOK FOR THE BAD...

the signs and symptoms of a particular diagnosis

whether someone was "sick/not sick" in a glance (aka are they going to code in the next 5 minutes?)

for the minute details picked up with our detective work ....the smell on the patients breath, the feel of their skin, the sound of their voice...

AND all of these things are SO important and valuable in helping our patients!

 BUT when we bring this same brain home with the well-worn neural pathways...it is no wonder we see all the things WRONG around us!  Our brains were trained this way.

So of course we come home and see the socks on the floor immediately and the dirty dishes in the sink....not because those things are dangerous but because our brain follows this familiar pathway.

SO good to know!  Awareness is one of the first steps in feeling better. Nothing has gone wrong! One of the coolest things in my life coach training has been working with myself and clients to create "new defaults" and pathways for our brain.

**Let me know if you'd like to learn more about teaching your brain new tricks! :)