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Learn How to Change Your Thoughts

Amanda Richey
5 min readMar 15, 2024
Photo by Jacob Dyer on Unsplash

Everything in your life begins with a thought, and thus changing your life will require changing your thoughts.

This may sound extreme, but every action we take is a response to a thought in our brain. We think a thought and then our brain produces an emotional response, which then prompts us to either take action or not take action based on the thought.

At the root of our individual choices and behaviors are basic instincts and these basic instincts are controlled by our subconscious thoughts. To change your life you need to change these subconscious thoughts, and to do that you need to understand a bit about the brain and how it works.

The Brain and How it Works

Our brain consists of two parts, a conscious mind, and a subconscious mind. Our conscious mind is controlled by the prefrontal cortex, a section of our brain located right behind our forehead. This region is responsible for decision making, self-control, willpower, and regulating behavior, and does not fully develop until after puberty.

Our subconscious mind is fully developed at birth, and is controlled by the basal ganglia, which are responsible for emotions, habits, behavior…

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Amanda Richey

Writer, coach, mother. Helping women crush their goals with ease and confidence.