for anyone out there thinking that this
is turning into a drama channel let me
know how many people talk about James
Charles drama and include neuroscience
and psychology what is up everybody this
is Chris from the rewired soul where we
talk about the problem but focus on the
solution and if you're new to my channel
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welcome this video was actually inspired
by my girl Ashley Kyle if you don't
follow her go check out her channel and
go subscribe to her she keeps up with
all the beauty guru T going on that's
why I go to get my little sips and yeah
James Charles has having a lot a lot of
drama this last year in 2018 and there's
some things I want to talk about that
can help you out with your own mental
health because I'm gonna explain why why
this might be happening and it might be
happening to you too so first let me
introduce you to this guy this is dr.
Daniel J Siegel so he is a
neuroscientist and I believe he's a
psychologist as well but he does a lot
of work studying the prefrontal cortex
and brain development especially with
young people like childhood brain
development teenage brain development
and so on all right and he focuses on
the prefrontal cortex which is this part
of the brain the prefrontal cortex is
what separates us from the rest of the
animals all right it gives us so many
different abilities that brought us to
the top of the food chain so something I
often show my clients is the Daniel
Seagle hand model so join me real quick
put your hand up all right now fold your
thumb over okay
this is your amygdala this is your
hippocampus all right amygdala that's
the fight flight or freeze hippocampus
that stores your memories and all that
now fold your fingers over these two
middle finger nails that is your
prefrontal cortex so this is kind of a
accurate model of your brain okay you
get brain stem to get the spine all that
stuff a lot of Peter fist down okay
anyways I just want you to remember that
and it's important to kind of like I
don't know well for me it is it helps me
to visualize what my brain actually
looks like what parts of my brain are
doing what okay
well Daniel Seagle he breaks down the
prefrontal cortex to having nine major
functions but for the purpose of this
video I'm only going to be highlighting
about three of them okay but I'm gonna
use this to tie in to specific examples
of James Charles drama but it's
important for all of us to understand
this so the prefrontal cortex does not
fully develop until you are in your mid
to late 20s some studies actually show
that the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully
develop in men until their early 30s oh
you hear that ladies you might fully
develop faster than men alright so a lot
of young people are going to struggle
with this but I know many many many
adults that struggle with prefrontal
cortex function alright and I know I
might get some James tall stands coming
up in my video saying we're talking crap
about James Charles prefrontal cortex
hey I'm just talking science all right
so the first function of the prefrontal
cortex that we're gonna talk about is
emotional regulation okay so somebody
with good prefrontal cortex function and
emotional regulation they are able to
get back to Center quicker right so if
they get angry if they get upset they
come back down they calm down okay so
one of the pieces of drama that James
Charles got involved in earlier this
year was when my latest Marlena Stell aka makeup
geek was talking about how she's working
with Netflix on some kind of you know
makeup line documentary James Charles
lost it and went on Twitter and he's
like oh my god they should be doing this
with me right like he flew off the
handle and it's like yo you need to calm
down
and I'm sure a bunch of you can give me
many other examples I'm just trying to
do one example per function but people
will pour emotional regulations they
don't just get kind of angry they get
so if you think about teenagers if you
think about your kids they they get
really really emotional okay but this
isn't just with anger this can also be
happiness too like young kids they get
really excited over some really dumb
stuff okay part of this is because they
get extra bursts of dopamine when
they're under the age of about 12 or 13
but this explains why some younger
people like James Charles get highly
emotional but the emotional regulation
doesn't quite explain what he's doing on
Twitter
well another function of the beautiful
prefrontal cortex is something called
impulse control okay impulse control
comes from the prefrontal cortex that is
your pause button that gives you the
ability to stop and say should I tweet
this out so those of you know overheard
during the holidays on Christmas he said
all he wanted for Christmas was a little
bit of D so come on James oh the impulse
control but again this video isn't
necessarily about James Charles so many
people like open up Twitter right now
and ask yourself how many of those
people have poor impulse control like
you're sitting there like what on earth
motivated you to tweet that out I was
actually I was actually talking with
Ashley Kyle and diems I'm like why do
people think that they need to tweet out
every thought that comes through their
brain you know what I mean but this is
why we need to improve our prefrontal
cortex function so the last thing we'll
talk about is self-awareness yeah that's
right ladies and gentlemen the
prefrontal cortex is responsible for
self-awareness and to discuss and give
an example of self-awareness I'm gonna
show you this clip after James Charles
released his rendition of ariana grande
God so yeah people who are lacking
self-awareness get very very defensive
they don't see what other people see
this is why I always tell you guys to
keep people around who tell you what you
need to hear and not what you want to
hear because so many of us lack
self-awareness so we need
other people to call us out on our BS
but when I did my video about Tristan
paletas like James Charles kind of
understood the criticism and he actually
reached out to Tristan Paredes and they did a
collab together where he did some vocal
coaching and things like that but young
people often get defensive and they
don't realize what they're doing they're
not seeing what everybody else is seeing
okay so one of the main main main
functions of the prefrontal cortex the
part of us that separates us from other
animals is this logical decision making
okay so when you think about things like
emotional regulation impulse control
self-awareness if you are lacking in
those areas are you really able to make
logical decisions now that we understand
how the brain works and how the maturity
of the brain works now explains some of
these tweets that go out now it explains
some of the decisions that are that are
being made so I hope this helps you
understand some of your own behavior but
I hope it also helps you understand some
of these young youtubers or young social
media influencers who are rising to fame
why you start to understand like when
you understand how the brain works it
makes more sense now is it an excuse for
bad behavior hell no it's not one of the
reasons I make these videos and make
this channel is because once I hate you
about something now it's your
responsibility to do something about it
so a lot of you are like oh man just got
Chris he's always talking about
mindfulness meditation mindfulness
meditation and here's why
it has been scientifically proven that
meditation is like doing a bicep curl
for your prefrontal cortex
inhale exhale okay now when we do that
and some of you maybe notice that
there'll be thoughts emotions or
sensations but we don't get lost and
done we bring our attention back and
every time we do that guess what we're
doing to our brain strengthening the
muscles in the brain every time it's a
gym workout for the brain
if you
meditate for five to ten minutes a day
you are strengthening your prefrontal
cortex this is part of the reason why
they're teaching children and teenagers
to meditate because it starts to help
with their emotional regulation and
their impulse control the logical
decision-making
it helps them become more self-aware so
if you would like to start meditating go
download an app one of my favorite apps
is actually the calm aplomb officially
partnered with so I always include an
affiliate link down in the description
below I absolutely love calm
they have meditations for stress for
anxiety I know a lot of you struggle
with sleep they have some sleep
meditations they also do daily
meditation so it's always different
every single day so if you would like to
check out calm go ahead and click on the
link down below alright anyways let me
know if you can relate to some of these
things that I'm talking about when it
comes to impulse control emotional
regulation self-awareness logical
decision-making and all of that alright
and I I'm thinking about making this a
series where I can kind of use examples
and discuss some more functions of the
brain of what might be going on so if
you have anybody else want me to you
know kind of look at leave comments down
below alright anyways that's all I got
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