This week's episode comes at a time when everything seems to be changing. The world knows more chaos than ever before and it can take a toll on just about every aspect of life.
The Find Your Freedom Podcast is here to help you find the awareness and tools to navigate through change. It's here to guide you, inspire you and support you as you ask new questions and confront new circumstances and perspective.
Listen in as I discuss one of the biggest hidden influences dictating our thoughts, decisions and actions- especially in times of stress. Implicit Bias: a subconscious tendency that looks to your past, your peers, your teachers, your unique exposure to life, and uses that lens to form your interpretations of life without you even knowing it. We all have it and we can all use mindfulness and our brain's neuroplasticity to re-train our brains IF and WHEN we want to!
3:15 Defining implicit Bias
4:25 Explicit vs. implicit
5:37 connection to neuroscience via our subconscious
6:13 Dispelling myths
9:00 Neuroplasticity and new associations
9:50 acknowledgement of bias
10:15 Examples of implicit bias effects when gone unchecked (red lining, mortgage lending, classrooms, interviews, loans, law enforcement, disaster response...)
12:18 Bias can be unlearned, we have a say over how we process information
14:40 1st way you can use neuroplasticity to dissolve bias that doesn't serve: Breathwork
17:24 2nd way...looking at a photo of someone doing things not typically associated with their age/race/gender
20:30 3rd way...Educate yourself by exposing yourself to new authors, documentaries, music, thought leaders...
21:40 4th way...move through your fear by going back to your intention. Action is scary, but when you start the conversations, take the first step, your fear gets reprogrammed into excitement, and that excitement can turn into enthusiasm.
27:55 Reference: Neutralizing Failure (Episode 30)
28:30 5th way...Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
I share a personal example of realizing my own bias and the pain/discomfort i had to sit with and acknowledge.
34:00 Review and how this knowledge can help us become allies for underrepresented communities.
34:26 Allyship from Aja Barber:
-Starts with accountability and trust
-Acknowledge how you've benefited personally and process your place
-White fragility and doing the right thing
37:35 Tuning into yourself with Michael Beckwith
-What are yoru strengths? What is your expertise? Find your inner authority
Links discussed in episode
2017 State of Science implicit Bias Review
Michael Beckwith website and Michael Beckwith Instagram
Aja Barber Instagram post
MTV Bias Cleanse
Breathwork Meditation
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo