Rewire Your Mind: Science-Backed Shifts For Emotional Freedom - by Mark Rowland

COURSE

Rewire Your Mind: Science-Backed Shifts For Emotional Freedom

With Mark Rowland

This five-day course is designed to help you understand how your mind, emotions, and behaviour work together, using gentle neuroscience-informed insights and guided meditation. Each day explores one simple belief that supports emotional clarity, self-compassion, and lasting change, helping you relate differently to difficult feelings, overthinking, habits, and inner pressure. Through short teaching sessions and calming guided practices, you will learn how to work with your nervous system rather than against it, respond to emotions as useful information, take small actions that reduce mental fog, reframe discomfort with kindness, and shift behaviour through identity rather than force. By the end of the course, you can expect to feel more grounded, more understanding toward yourself, and more confident in your ability to change and grow at any stage of life, all while moving at a pace that feels supportive and safe.


Meet your Teacher

Mark Rowland is a meditation teacher and guide on Insight Timer, known for his grounded, reassuring approach to mindfulness and emotional wellbeing. His work blends gentle neuroscience-informed teaching with guided meditation, helping people feel safe, understood, and supported as they learn to work with their thoughts, emotions, and nervous system. Mark’s sessions focus on clarity rather than force, compassion rather than self-judgement, and practical tools that can be integrated into everyday life. With a calm and approachable style, he creates spaces where listeners can slow down, reconnect with themselves, and discover their own capacity for change, growth, and inner steadiness.

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5 Days

50 students

5.0 stars

15 min / day

Anxiety

English


Lesson 1

Your Emotions Are Data, Not Your Identity

In this first session, we gently explore the relationship between emotions and identity. Many of us unconsciously merge what we feel with who we are, especially during difficult moments. Today’s lesson introduces a neuroscience-informed way of understanding emotions as signals rather than definitions. Through a short teaching and a calming guided meditation, you will learn how to notice emotions with curiosity, reduce self-judgement, and create a little more inner space around what you feel. This practice supports emotional clarity, nervous system regulation, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself

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Lesson 2

Action Creates Clarity

Many people wait to feel confident, motivated, or clear before taking action, yet neuroscience shows the opposite is often true. In this session, you will explore how small, intentional actions help settle the nervous system, reduce mental overwhelm, and create clarity from the inside out. Through gentle teaching and a grounded guided meditation, you will learn how movement and choice can quiet overthinking and restore a sense of direction, even when motivation feels low.

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Lesson 3

Pain Is Feedback, Not Punishment

In this session, we explore a kinder way of relating to pain, discomfort, and emotional difficulty. Rather than seeing pain as something to resist or judge, today’s lesson introduces the idea of pain as feedback from the nervous system. Through gentle teaching and a calming guided meditation, you will learn how to listen to discomfort with curiosity, reduce inner resistance, and respond to difficulty with compassion rather than self-blame.

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Lesson 4

Identity Shapes Behaviour More Than Willpower

In this session, we explore why lasting change rarely comes from trying harder or relying on willpower alone. Instead, today’s lesson introduces the neuroscience-informed idea that behaviour naturally flows from identity. Through teaching and a guided meditation, you will begin to notice the quiet stories you hold about who you are, how they influence daily choices, and how gently shifting identity can create more ease, consistency, and self-trust over time.

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Lesson 5

Your Brain Can Change at Any Age

In this final session, we explore the reassuring truth that change remains possible throughout your life. Modern neuroscience shows that the brain is not fixed or rigid, but continually reshaping itself in response to experience, attention, and compassion. Through gentle teaching and a guided meditation, today’s lesson helps you build trust in your capacity to grow, heal, and form new patterns, no matter your age or past experiences.

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5.0 (6)

Recent Reviews

Ken

January 3, 2026

Mark, this course helped me to understand the small changes that are happening in my brain and the changes that are happening in my self talk. My self talk is more positive and is happening on its own without any noticeable thought. Also several road blocks seem smaller now or even gone, your teachings are making a difference in my life. Thank you

Lorna

Lorna

January 2, 2026

Another lovely and helpful course. It reflects much of what I have recently been reading about and the final day, in particular chimed with me because I am aware of little changes happening.

ilinca

ilinca

December 31, 2025

This is a beautiful gem of practical wisdom, delivered in Mark's trademark gentle, supportive style 🪷 I am incorporating what i learned into my practice, and i will definitely listen again as i progress. Thank you for creating this! 🙏🌹

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