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Brain Lock:\n\nStep 2 - Reattribute \n\u201cUnlocking your brain\u201d\n\nHelps answer the question:\n \u201cwhy don\u2019t these bothersome thoughts, urges, and behaviors go away?\u201d\n\nInformation:\nThere is now strong scientific evidence that in OCD a part of your brain that works much like a gearshift in a car is not working properly. Your brain gets \u201cstuck in gear\u201d. This is why it\u2019s hard for you to shift behaviors. \nAt UCLA they use the mind\u2019s own power to actually change the chemistry in the brain. No neurosurgery needed. You can do it with your mind.\nUsing the Impartial Spectator you can distance yourself from your OCD by creating a gap or safety zone \nReattribute step intensifies the mindful-awareness process. \nReattribute helps us understanding why the thought is so strong and why it won\u2019t go away is the key to increasing your willpower and enabling you to fight off the urge to check or wash\nChanging your behavioral responses to the uncomfortable feelings and shifting to useful and constructive behaviors will, over time, make the broken gearshift become unstuck \n\nScientific facts:\nThe Orbital Cortex: the brain\u2019s \u2018error-detection circuit\u201d. Here, thought and emotion combine. The orbital cortex can inform you that something is right or wrong \n\nThe Cingulate Gyrus: wired into your gut and heart-control centers, located at the center of the brain, the deepest part of the cortex. It\u2019s responsible for giving you the feeling that something terrible is going to happen if you don\u2019t act on your compulsions \n\n** Conscious thought is required to control shifts from one behavior to another ** \n\nHow to Reattribute: \nIdentify what the problem is \u2014 \u201cthis is my brain sending me a false message. I have a medical condition in which my brain does not adequately filter my thoughts and experiences, and I react inappropriately to things that I know make no sense. But if I change the way I react to the false message, I can make my brain work better, which will improve the bad thoughts and feelings\u201d\nRecognize \u2014 recognize that the feeling and discomfort is due to a biochemical imbalance in the brain \nAcknowledge \u2014 acknowledge that your symptoms are not what they seem to be. You\u2019re learning not to take them at face value \nKeep the faith \u2014 trust that you have the strength to fight OCD. Forgive yourself for having these thoughts, because they\u2019re not your thoughts, they\u2019re false messages from the brain \n\nRemember:\nThe acceptance that the painful obsessional thought is something that is beyond your capacity to remove - and that the thought is just OCD - enables you, the sufferer, to see yourself as a spirit being who can resist this unwanted intruder. It\u2019s almost impossible to fight off an enemy as vicious as OCD if you are bogged down with feelings of self-hatred. \n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not how you feel but what you do that counts\u201d\n\n\n--- \n\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foundfamily/message\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foundfamily/support