The neuroscience of habit with Dr Jeffrey Schwartz at Mind & Its Potential 2015 

How is your experience with mindfulness?

Get his book! You've no idea how helpful it actually is for folks with ocd. It helped me a lot

@@geekymonkey5294 which book do u recommend?

@@loveleen90 You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life Book by Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Rebecca Gladding this book is gold. I'm not saying you shouldn't go to therapy in fact if your ocd is pretty bad you should do therapy, but also accompany it with this book.

@@geekymonkey5294 Thank you so much ! I really need it if it works . Going to read it for sure . Lord bless you .

I did the same...

@@carolagerik Hey, I did come back and watch the thing...but in the meantime, I've learned that he's not really saying much...mainly because his main premise "the wise advocate" is just..arbitrary,wishy-washy, vacant and abstract. You wanna learn about your brain to change your behavior? I suggest you learn about the reward pathway: v.t.a. - striatum - nuc.acc - receptors, transporters....it's all about hedonic adaptation. I swear, I invested the energy into taking notes, learning that shit and I actially remember that when I recognise sime autamatic behavior (governed by my basal ganglia, instead of...at least mostly my p.f.c.) and I don't do that mindless thimg that I was doing...unless it's smoking, then I completely ignore it, bit for other stuff, it's great:D Anyway, thx for reminding me of this...

Haha! He's being completely scientific, man. By “wise advocate” he meant Conscience which always keeps telling you about what's wrong and right before performing any new action. Look up Jordan Peterson... This guy makes a lot of Sense ig but yeah if you don't find him suitable for your stimuli, it's okay xD. Being too scientific ain't bad either

because he is religious

We’ll if you can change the bad habits in your life into other habits which you would like to have and you can do it voluntarily, even if your brain decides for you most of the time and runs in autopilot, it would be an autopilot configured according to your free will. So in theory even if you are not in absolute control of your way of thinking or behaving, in this second stage your thoughts and actions are influenced by factors which you are conscient about, as you have chosen them. You could in any given moment take control of yourself and make decisions considering each and every factor in a fully rational way and thus executing pure free will right?

Nonsense, there are no scientifical proofs that free will is an illusion, you're talking out of your ass.

May I see your PhD? Doctor? No? Then shut the fuck up

@@christianlacroix5430 I don't think you truly know the meaning of "Free-Will." It's no "illusion." Free-Will, means having the Freedom of choice. The fact that one can decide for himself, herself. That is one reason why we find it frustrating to be enslaved by oppressive rulers. To go with the gift of free will, God gave us the ability to think, weigh matters, make decisions, and know right from wrong. Thus, free will was to be based on intelligent choice. We were not made like mindless robots, having no will of their own. Nor were we created to act out of instinct as were the animals. Instead, our marvelous brain was designed to work in harmony with our freedom of choice. The fact that one have a choice, the ability to decide for himself/herself to believe in a Creator or not, is also PROOF of the ability and freedom of choice.

How can you explain that