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Hack Your Brain: How To Free Your Mind

Door Karolien Notebaert

Wat je zal leren

Welcome to this fascinating journey. In this 7-day course, we will focus on how we can connect with our inner power and release our unique potential. Releasing our unique potential enables us to live a life that is true to ourselves. Yet, becoming the person who we truly are can be challenging and often requires courage. At times we may feel like our potential is blocked by feelings of insecurity, self-doubt, fear, or simply a lack of self-confidence. These blockages are not always easy to reduce or get rid of. Someone telling us not to feel afraid when walking on (life’s) stage does not always reduce our feelings of fear. Telling someone who feels sad not to worry and look at the bright side of life is not always sufficient to feel happy. At these moments, our inner blockages are not open to suggestions of the mind or kind suggestions of others. So what can help us unlock our inner power, so we can rise and shine? This is the question that I asked myself as a neuroscientist some time ago. The scientific insights that I was able to gain were an absolute life changer for me and are at the core of this journey. It is my privilege to share these insights with you with the purpose of creating a positive impact on your unique life quality. Please do reach out to me in the classroom in case you have questions and you would like to share your experiences with the other students. I would be delighted to hear from you. With much gratitude for Music Of Wisdom for allowing me the use the track 'Deep Into Nature.

Karolien Notebaert

Brussels, Belgium

Karolien is a neuroscientist and mindfulness expert - two big loves and inspirations in her life. She has a PhD Neuroscience. She is a TEDxTalk speaker ("Hack your Brain") and GedankenTanken speaker, and works as a keynote speaker and trainer in the area of leadership development.

Les 1

Getting Ready To Climb

At times, we feel our potential is blocked by feelings of insecurity, self-doubt, fear, or simply a lack of self-confidence. These blockages are not always easy to reduce. At those moments, our inner blockages are not open to suggestions of the mind or kind suggestions of others. In these moments, we need a strategy that directly impacts the emotional structures of the brain. In today’s session, we look at a few examples of situations where our own potential is blocked.

Les 2

Behaviour – A Tale Of Two

When making a decision, consciously or unconsciously, there are many inner voices that try to drive us. Some voices are loud and clear, others are shy and more difficult to hear. In today’s session, we will have a closer look at these voices. Although voices that are important to our life purpose can be powerful and fully present today, at times they lose power over voices that are related to feelings of insecurity, fear, or self-doubt. As you will come to learn, our decisions and behaviour are a result of two processes: the fast and slow process. When both processes are in conflict with each other, this can bring us in a challenging situation.

Les 3

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

In this session, we are going to have a look at those situations that pose a challenge on us due to the fact that our reward system is trying to powerfully influence our behaviour. These are situations where we are trying not to overeat, reduce our sugar intake, drink less or no alcohol, or stop smoking. In these situations, we experience a conflict between the reward system that is driving us toward ‘forbidden’ goods and the prefrontal cortex, which is trying to achieve your long-term goals.

Les 4

The Source Of Our Inner Blockages

The most common inner blockages are caused by too much activation in the brain region that is connected to feelings of anxiety, stress, insecurity, and self-doubt: the amygdala. Although we need the amygdala for survival and our emotional lives, too much activation can seriously block our potential and present us with a real energy drain. You will find out how the activation level of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex fluctuates during the day and consequently, influences our behaviour in different ways.

Les 5

Self-Regulation: The Key To Unlock Your Power

Self-regulation is one of the most important predictors of success in life, both privately, as well as in our professional life. There are two different categories of self-regulation strategies. Today, we are going to have a look at the first category - the so-called cognitive self-regulation strategies. These strategies are called cognitive as they need the prefrontal cortex, our mental battery, to be applied. We will have a look at cognitive re-appraisal and perspective change as two powerful strategies, which can help us prepare for or process challenging situations.

Les 6

How One Single Thought Can Lead To Your Destiny

In this session, I will introduce to you a very powerful self-regulation strategy: a non-cognitive self-regulation strategy. This is a strategy that can strongly reduce our inner blockages and give our prefrontal cortex a boost. Moreover, this is a strategy that, in the long run, will prevent inner blockages from building up that intensely. This is the key to unlocking your inner power and releasing your unique potential.

Les 7

Enable Yourself To Reach The Summit

Today we will put the newly acquired theory from yesterday into practice. Experience how you can apply mindfulness meditation by activating the Direct Experience Network in our brain and de-activate the Default Mode Network, or monkey mind. Regularly usimg mindfulness meditation can be a real life changer. In the long run, it will permanently calm the monkey mind, reduce your inner blockages, and give smoother and more powerful access to our inner power and unique potential.

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Hafblik

March 14, 2025

Great job, Dr. Karolien! I’ve listened to many podcasts, courses, and books on this topic, and you have a fantastic way of explaining complicated concepts in a simple and relatable manner. I also found the “special guests” to be very helpful. I have been practicing some form of mindful meditation for many years, and after listening to your course,...

Kip

March 1, 2025

Interesting. The addition of guests gave this course a quality which was excellent and helpful.

Katy

June 10, 2024

This course was so insightful. I learned so much and became so much more aware of the cognitive process. This will greatly improve not just my meditation practices but also processing everyday experiences. For an overthinker like myself, this course was extremely beneficial.

Milena

August 25, 2023

Amazing experience! I am very grateful for all the knowledge learned!

Jeff

June 19, 2023

My second time doing this course. Thank you. It’s helped me to reconnect with the beautiful world of inter-connectedness and to stay in touch with myself.

Heidi

June 1, 2023

I liked the science behind it. I will have to find another course to compliment your information as I need to dig deeper into how attachments to thought affect my working brain. I want to let go of thoughts that attach to myself which are of no use and damaging.

Dan

April 29, 2023

I appreciated learning a little bit of the science behind the pop psychology. I’d love to learn more and I appreciated the way the material was presented. Very well done! And many thanks.

Jane

April 19, 2023

Thank you for this interesting exploration of the mind and how to use meditation as a tool to tame it. 🙏

Gulmira

April 4, 2023

Great and necessary information to understand our mind.

lee

April 2, 2023

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and education and lovely spirit and humanity. You help to show us the best in ourselves. So valuable to learn from you. 🙏🏼

Jefferson

January 2, 2023

The stepwise approach toward mindfulness, and the rationale and scientific reasoning are things I appreciate in this short course.

Tiffany

September 6, 2022

Fantastic! A course I plan to revisit from time to time.

Katy

August 12, 2022

This course feels like a very important step in my recovery from a serious medical situation. I am so relieved to now have specific structures and networks to refer to in my practice of overcoming anxiety. I am deeply grateful for this work, your approach to presenting this information, and the benefits I already feel. I did complete this...

Karen

July 10, 2022

Loved it. A great scientific explanation as to the benefits of Mindfulness Meditation

Rosi

June 22, 2022

Dear Karolien, this is my third course and after two beautiful workshops with you, I have to say that it's always great learn from you. Your unique way to teach helps me to understand better my brain and my behaviour and gives me many tools to thrive my life. Thank you from my heart❤️ With gratitude, Rosi

Tracy

June 17, 2022

Excellent overview. Very helpful especially understanding how the pre-frontal cortex gets depleted. Thank you 🙏🏽

Annie

June 13, 2022

Excellent course. Science, proof that meditation works!

Hadrian

June 10, 2022

Intuitive, basic and simple truth, yet no reminder of this is one too much 💜Thank you and may you always walk on warm sands! 🙏

Sarah

March 22, 2022

A great insight into the inner workings of the brain and the mind. I enjoyed this course very much and learned something as well. Mastery and pleasure, the perfect combination! With gratitude and love 🙏❤️

Vivian

January 21, 2022

Excellent explanation of how our mind and procesesses work, in a simple language that we can all understand, now I have to practice mindfulness meditation which I’m not familiar with. Thank you 🙏🏼

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