The Science of Manifestation - How to Use Neuroplasticity and Universal Laws to
AAngela FosterJan 20, 2023 at 8:41 am1h
TTara Swart
00:05So the science that underlies manifestation is neuroplasticity, which is the fact that your brain can grow and change at any age, any stage and any mindset.
AAngela Foster
00:19Hi, Friends, if you listen to Tuesday's little bite size bio hack clip, then you will have had an introduction to this week's podcast guest who I'm very excited to introduce. But before I do that, firstly, I want to say a very warm welcome to all the new listeners that we have to this show. I'm super grateful to have you here and excited to be sharing lots of new content with you about how you can really optimise your mind, body and spirit and also to my longtime listeners. Welcome back to this episode, back in 2019. At the end of 2019 When I was coming off all my medication in terms of my antidepressant and bipolar medication, I was really on a journey of self discovery and how could trying to figure out really how could I stay? Well, I'd got to the end of all the kind of CBT work that I'd been doing in psychotherapy, and I'd finally transitioned off medication. And I've become a lot more spiritual focusing on mindfulness and meditation and breath work. And also diving into the science of health. As you know, I'm a big fan of science, but I wanted something that was going to really kind of connect the dots if you like, between science and spirituality. And that's when I came across the book, the source. Open your mind, change your life by Dr. Tara Swart. And it's an incredible book. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. It's absolutely brilliant book, really showing you how you can connect the dots between the science and how you can manifest your best life and also, it dives into neuroplasticity and the science behind that, and how that relates to manifestation. And in today's episode, I'm actually sitting down with Dr. Tara Dr. Torres, who is a neuroscientist and former psychiatric doctor. He's also a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan. And she's a visiting senior lecturer at King's College London, and she's also an executive advisor to some of the world's most respected leaders in media, and business. And with over 25 years of brain expertise. Dr. Tara is gifted at translating the science behind a healthy brain, and how to harness its power in your daily life. And in this episode, we talk about the female brain in particular, and the unique challenges that I think women have facing them, and how you can really optimise for a healthy brain, including how to take care of it. There's a new supplement that Dr. Tara has formulated with heights in relation to supporting your microbiome, and how that in turn communicates with your brain, your gut bacteria and supporting that gut brain access. And we talk about that on this episode. And also all of the things that you can do to really, really optimise for a healthy brain for longevity, and also to manifest your best life. So without further delay, let me introduce you now to the lovely Dr. Thomas. So I'm so excited to be here with you today. Tara, it's just amazing to have you on the show. We were talking offline there about how the source was one of those books that really helped me in my road to recovery from depression. I'm just I'm so excited. I've got so many things to talk to you about. But first of all, a very warm welcome to the show.
TTara Swart
03:35Thank you so much. I love the fact that you were a lawyer and I was a doctor. And now we're doing like something quite similar. Yeah, yeah. So I think I'll have loads to talk about.
AAngela Foster
03:43Yeah, I think we will both had kind of career changes. I think that's probably a really good place to start. Because you have so much experience in psychiatry as a neurologist. And now I think you coach as well. You've formulated supplements. Gianna, give listeners, just a little bit of background on your journey, and how it all began.
TTara Swart
04:01Sure. So I went to medical school when I was 18. And after the third year, you could were in the third year, you could choose special topics. And I was just attracted to the neuro part of everything like neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and I actually took three years out to do a PhD in neuropharmacology, which is, you know, sort of drugs and supplements and stuff. Then I came back to medical school, and I just found psychiatry like, more fascinating, more personal interaction. And I also just felt that psychiatric diseases, were the cruellest Way To Lose yourself, like your brain playing tricks on you, changing your mood, you could have voices that weren't really there. And I just felt like I really wanted to help people that were going through that. So I did that for seven years. And then for various reasons, like my own intellectual stimulation and my desire to run a business and just to have like a bigger impact because I was working in the NHS I was working with For people who were, you know, very broken, they're often their families that abandoned them, their children were taken away from them, they couldn't really work. And you know, as much as I cared for them, I felt like could I do more if I was working with senior executives influence a whole, you know, a leadership team, a company, through corporate social responsibility can actually have a massive influence on lots more people. So I started coaching, and that was around 2008. And that's when neuroscience started to slowly become a big topic in business and leadership. And the people around me encouraged me to start speaking. So then I got into that. I've obviously written a few books that bad one being the source. And then Dan Murray SATA from heights, basically stalked me on Twitter and said, we're looking for a Chief Science Officer neuropharmacology has that ideal PhD. And we want someone that really walks the talk. And when we first met, and I sometimes think that's crazy, because I don't think I would go and meet somebody that like, sought to be on Twitter anymore, but it was a while ago. You know, I was saying to him that when I travelled to America, which I do a lot, because I teach at a university there, I was taking, like, at least 10 bottles of supplements with me, because travel is very stressful for your body. So it was more important than ever, then to take everything that I would normally take. You know, sometimes at home during the year, I just listened to my body and think, Okay, I need more of there. So I don't need that at the moment. But on a big trip to the States, I would want to have everything with me. And the idea of formulating one double capsule that had pretty much everything that I would need in it was was very attractive. So that's how that started. And from the beginning, I was going on about magnesium and probiotics. And now we're we've just launched the smart probiotics. I'm excited about that. I've obviously been trying it for a few months before launch. And hopefully there's a magnesium product on the way because those are the things I'm obsessed with.
AAngela Foster
07:06Magnesium, yes, a big one for me as well. Actually, I love magnesium. I want to dive into the kind of gut brain connection in a moment. But just looking firstly, kind of at the brain. And you were saying there you were encountering so many people who kind of struggled with mental health, you know, listeners of this podcast will know it's something I've struggled with in the past. And I think when you have struggled with it, actually, it's almost a little bit like an autoimmune condition, right? I don't feel it ever really leaves you it doesn't go away, you almost putting it into remission. But for me, certainly it takes daily work, I have to kind of manage that. When we're looking at a healthy brain. I think that for a lot of women, things that show up for them, they encounter them either after having a baby or in their 40s. And both of those have big hormonal kind of crunch points if you like, aren't they as you go through perimenopause. But what would you say about the female brain? In particular? How can we kind of support it because I think the other thing that I'm aware of is we just pulled so much in different directions, right? Where the primary caregiver for children, even if we have very supportive partners, often we have a lot going on, you're progressing in your career, you might have elderly parents, there's lots of different kinds of things pulling, what would you say, are the most important things for a healthy brain in particular, for the female brain?
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