The Science Of Changing Your Brain

Neuro
–
The cells in the brain

Plasticity –

The ability to shape, remould and restructure the network of brain cells.

Scientists now
know that the brain can change itself. It is a plastic, living organ that can
change its own structure and function. The aim of this article is to explore
this revolutionary discovery, known as neuroplasticity; considered one of the
most important developments in modern science of our understanding of the
brain.

Imagine how different
your life would be if could easily increase your memory, creativity,
concentration and learning ability!

BASIC
BRAIN TERMS

Neurons
– Brain cells

Neural network
– Jungle of brain
cells clustered together

Synapse
– The junction
point between neutrons

Neurotransmitters
– Chemical
messengers for neurons

Did
you know y
our brain can physically change?

Yep, that’s right…

Neuroplasticity
is an umbrella
term referring to the ability of your brain to restructure itself, both
physically and functionally, throughout your life due to your:

•Environment

•Experiences

•Learning

•Behavior

•Thinking

•Emotions

From the time the brain begins to develop as a child and until
the day we die, the connections between the cells in our brain reorganise in
response to our changing needs and environment.

“The
brain is more plastic-like than it is hard wired—it can mould, shape and modify
its structure given the right instructions.”

SOURCE –
Evolve your brain

“The
old model of the brain’s inability to regenerate new nerve cells is no longer
valid. It has been proven that certain areas in the brain can generate fresh
cells.” ~ Neuroscience

THREE BRAIN MYTHS

•After a certain
age the brain is hardwired to a set of programs that make up your personality.

•We cannot change
our personality traits.

•We cannot train our
brains.

These
myths are very limiting and outdated perceptions!

• Genes do not determine the fate of our brains
. Thanks to
lifelong neuroplasticity, our lifestyles are as important as our genes—if not
more—in how our brains grow and our minds evolve.

• Physical exercise and increased fitness
promote brain
functioning through a variety of mechanisms, including increased brain volume,
blood supply, and growth hormone levels.

• Routine activities do not challenge the brain
. Keeping up the
challenge requires going to the next level of difficulty, or trying something
new.

• Brain training can work;
evidence-based
brain training includes some forms of meditation, cognitive therapy, cognitive
training, and bio/neurofeedback.

• Chronic stress
reduces and can inhibit
neurogenesis (growth/development of brain cells). Memory and general mental
flexibility are impaired by chronic stress.

• There is increasing evidence
that meditation
and biofeedback can successfully teach users to self-regulate physiological
stress responses.

What is biofeedback?

“It
is a technique to learn how to control internal functions normally outside of
conscious control. You learn this by using sensitive instruments that measure
and display physical or mental processes—making you aware of things that you
can’t easily feel or detect on your own”

~ brainworksneurotherapy.com

SOURCE –

sharpbrains.com

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Evolve your brain

By
understanding the mechanisms of the brain, we will understand both its
capacities and its limitations for thought and emotions.

Our
brains changes every day as we experience new things (real or imagined).
Focused attention can rewire the brain — be aware of your thoughts as they
shape your reality.

#KEY POINTS

•Our neural networks rewire when new information is
processed.

•The brain will physically restructure itself when
our beliefs and perceptions change.

•The brain noticeably
changes shape with attention, meditation, exercise, diet, and habits of life.

Synaptic Pruning

“Synapses
are the connections between neurons that transmit chemical messages. When we
learn new information and skills, synapses get stronger. We even generate new
ones, a process called neurogenesis. During vital periods of cognitive
development, we shed old synapses to make room for higher quality connections
that can support more complex mental function. This neural spring cleaning is
called synaptic pruning.” 

Thoughts and other stimuli
can “rewire” the
brain by strengthening useful synaptic pathways and weakening less used ones.

FACTORS TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION

• Learning new information
creates new connections in the brain. When you encounter something, unfamiliar or even difficult, go for it. Use this opportunity to learn something new.

• When you fully focus your attention
on new information or activities, neuroplasticity is heightened.

• Have new experiences
that are stimulating and heartfelt; focus in on the finer details, objects, conversation, colours; be aware of the smells and sounds.

Did you know –
you can impact the physiology of your brain by changing your behaviours, attitudes or perceptions?

A common phrase in the field of neuroscience that gets used to describe this is “neurons that fire together wire together”.

“So if learning forges new connections in our brain, then remembering is enriching and sustaining the new connections in our brain.” ~
Evole your brain

“It’s the repetition of affirmations that lead to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” ~ Muhammed Ali

#IMPORTANT POINT

Learning new information creates new connections in the brain. However, if you don’t remember or repeat the information/activity, the brain will eventually eliminate, or “prune,” the connecting cells that formed the pathway.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

Repeating
information or activity will activate the neural network—groups of neurons that fire together—creating stronger connections.

Remembering
important points or aspects of new information will help strengthen neural networks. Reflecting back on the information or activity you have just learnt will help sustain long-term relationships between neutrons.

Mentally rehearsing
activities you have just learnt, whether it be a new movement in sports/martial arts or a new dance move will fire up circuitry systems in your brain, as if you were performing the movement in real life. Major sporting clubs have visual coaches that put athletes through mental rehearsal as a part of their training.

#QUICK RECAP

Your thoughts, emotions and perception of the environment re-wire the brain — shaping your reality.

Ohh, don’t forget…

Your perception of yourself – how you view yourself; makes a huge difference on your neurobiology.

So be kind to yourself
…

KEY POINTS ON BEING KIND TO YOURSELF

Perception –
Shift your point of view from negative to positive.

#Quick Tip

If you find this hard to do, then seriously put yourself in the shoes of people in third world countries that are suffering for the bare minimum before you start complaining about first world problems.

Affirmations –
Repeat positive affirmations that area true to your life every night with emotional conviction. Meditate on the gratitude and appreciation you have for your truth.

Mirror

– when you look at yourself in the mirror, just smile and say something nice: “You’re beautiful!”
or “ You’re going to change the world!”
or “My greatest gift is the happiness I offer people!”
or “I love you!”…

Yes, self-love is a very powerful inhibitor of biochemical changes in the body!

Meditate –

every night or every morning (or both); give thanks — express love for everything that brings you happiness.

Meditation
increases the
thickness and strength of the frontal cortex of the brain; ageing decreases the
size of the frontal cortex. Studies have shown that meditators experience less
of this decrease in the frontal cortex. In other words, the gray matter in
their brain upholds its thickness, resulting in a healthier brain.

“According to a new study led by Harvard researchers
at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), meditating for just eight weeks has
been shown to alter the brain’s gray matter, which may be at least part of the
reason why practitioners experience significant improvements in memory, sense
of self, empathy, and stress.” –


havard.edu

Our brain can change
in response to the experiences and emotions that we feed it. Neuroplasticity
means that we can structurally change how our brain works by changing our
environment, thoughts, and actions. As we incorporate new behaviours
and thinking patterns, the brain adapts to these changes, forming new synaptic
connections. This is why starting a new habit (like exercise) is difficult but
as the brain adapts, it becomes easier and easier until it becomes second
nature!

SOURCE
–
meditation-research.org

SOURCE –
Evolve your brain

SOURCE
–
The Rewired Brain

SOURCE
–
universalclass.com

So you have learnt the basic science of
neuroplasticity but now lets take this information to the NEXT LEVEL.

I want to give you infoformation that applies to your life, not just some technical
jargon that makes up a good
article.

QUESTION:

What happens if I change the way I think,
act and feel?

ANSWER:

“You will change your
personality!! Your personality creates your personal reality!! Your personality
is made up of the way you think, the way you act, and the way you feel.” ~ Joe
Dispenza

Here are some basic
principles
you need to know in order to create a new you:

Every thought
you have produces a chemical in your brain that signals the body to feel
exactly the way you been thinking.

Feelings
generate
an electromagnetic pulse that signals the
brain to think exactly then way that you’re feeling.

Thinking the
same
way every single day only
produces the same feedback loops that become redundant over time.

This becomes a vicious
cycle:

–We
become victims to your thoughts

–We
become victims of your environments

–We become victims to our
emotional patterns

Sure you want to change
and apply this new
science, but first, you need to understand how your subconscious mind operates
or else it will be an uphill battle.

The
information below is extracted from the teachings of Bruce
Lipton

The
mind controls:

•Life

•Biology

•Nervous system

•Behaviour

The
mind is divided into two parts:

1) Conscious mind:

•Personal
identify

•Source

•Spirit

•Who you are

•Creativity

•Your wishes

•Your desires

•What you want
from your life – answers that manifest comes from the creativity of your
conscious mind

2) Subconscious mind:

•Recording device
– playback device

•Records life
experiences

•Memories

•We can push a “button,
” and play back the tape and it responds to those experiences

The subconscious mind is like a recording
device with a set of programs that make up your personality.

So
how does it work? (simple explanation)

Remember
when you learnt how to drive a car?

The
first time
, you were fully focused and “aware” in the moment, little fearful but
attentive to the task at hand. and then the second
time it becomes easy and mor ‘natural’ … Fifth
time… After
you got your license… How about now? you can just jump in the car, and you don’t even have to think about it it seems ‘automatic’ to be able to drive.

Reason:
The Sub-Conscious mind is
doing the driving for you, while your conscious mind time travels into the
past, and future, an automatic program (driving) is played back.

This
is a basic example of how automatic programs rule your life; this applies to
everything!!

What other programs does this apply to?

• Anger

• Pain

• Sadness

• Frustration

• Violence

• Guilt

• Resentment

• Jealousy

To name a few…

The Same principle applies to all the emotional states
(programs) listed above. You have learnt these behaviours so well that now it’s an automatic program — a very reactive state — that when triggered, you become unconscious and the program plays out.

Please take a moment to digest this info…

#LETS PUT IT TOGETHER

I. New experiences make new nerve cells — connections.

II. We can call these connections memories.

III. Memories are chemical blueprints —Love or Fear (Stress).

IV. Repeating

the same experiences (same emotions).

V. Strengthens neural networks (Fire together, Wire together).

VI. This is called learning — Mastery over what we repeat.

SO IF YOU REPEAT:

• Anger
• Hate
• Sadness
• Violence
• Self-pity/sabotage/doubt
• Anxiety
• Any negative emotions.

You will become a master at it!

PUNCH LINE:
You no longer have to think about it… because you are it !!

The architecture of our brain
is designed to reflect everything we experience; every bit of information coming in from our senses is being hardwired into what we call a memory.

We have forgotten what it feels like to have a panoramic perspective on life; forgetting how it feels to live in total harmony and joy.

SOURCE –
Evolve your brain

SOURCE –
The Rewired Brain

SOURCE –
brucelipton.com

SOURCE –
calmdownmind.com

SOURCE –

drjoedispenza.com

Living in a fast-paced
society promotes stress and anxiety due to the
stressful demands of daily life — which are

are all being stitched away into the recess of our
gray matter as memories.

There is a very likely probability
that we have programmed our brain to be in a highly aroused state of stress.
Running the risk that this imbalanced state can become our status quo.

There are times where you may feel
okay,
but it doesn’t take long for the stressful energy
to resurface. This can take over our bodies, consume our thoughts, and bring us
our of alignment with the present moment.

Other factors that impact your level of stress:

•Diet

•Lifestyle choices

•Emotional diet

•Sleeping patterns

ALL
YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THAT OVERACTIVE STRESS HORMONES RUN HAVOC ON YOUR BODY’S
NATURAL ORDER OF BALANCE!

Chronic
stress decreases the number of stem cells that mature into neurons and might
provide an explanation for how chronic stress also affects learning, memory,
and health.

Common side effects
of
a body full of stress or a brain that is functioning under stressful
programming are:

•Excessive
thinking

•Unhealthy
sleeping patterns

•Waking up
and being unable to get back to sleep

•Easily
frustrated

•Easily
irritated

•Inability to
control anger or negative emotions

•Lack of
cognitive control

•Unstable
moods

•Lack of
energy

•Unstable
energy

•Rarely feel
joy or happiness

•Inability to
get the joy out of simple pleasures in life

•Rarely
present

•Consumed by
thoughts

•Constant dwelling on, or rehearsing negative
or worst case scenarios

“Stress
has not only been proven to kill neurons and neural connections, but it
actually prevents the formation of new neurons and neural connections. ”

The unconscious programs
that are ruling your life, that hold you back from being your potential, can be “pruned” away.

In meditation, you shift your attention into a state of awareness — the act of observation.

Once you become the conscious observer,

you are no longer your thoughts/programs, so they slowly start to lose their charge over you.

Non-identification

is a faster and more effective way to reprogram your brain.

“Neurons that don’t fire together, don’t wire together”

#PLEASE NOTE

You don’t have to meditate
to reprogram your brain.

Self-awareness – paying attention to your programs/thoughts will allow the charge to weaken.

HOW?

By being self aware through non-identification you become the witness to your programming as opposed to succumbing to the programming. which will in turn prune away the useless connections you don’t want.

However the stronger the charge, the stronger the connection
; so it will take repetition, practice of non-identification to weaken the charge.

CHARGE –

The stronger the program the stronger the charge, the reaction of the individual will determine the strength of the charge/program. For example people that have an anger issue will have a program that is strongly charged “anger”.

A weaker charge
would be someone that feels anger but doesn’t allow the anger to take over their mind and body.

Ultimately the more in control you are over your emotions the less vulnerable you are to programs taking over your conscious awareness.

Meditation heightens your self-awareness
so you can be more alert to unconscious programs that no longer serve you.

Metacognition –
awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes.

“Now you can modify your behaviours to do a better job in life.” ~ Joe Dispenza

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We all have programs
that have been hardwired into our cerebral cortex (mind) that serve us no purpose, whether it be from childhood — early development years — or unconscious mental rehearsal of experiences.

How many of us
have spent countless hours, days and even longer, dwelling upon stressful emotions that have only taught our bodies to memorise such responses?

KEY INGREDIENTS

1. Have the will to develop your self-awareness.

2. Only pay attention to the thoughts you want to manifest.

3. Behave in ways that represent the highest ideal of yourself.

4. Only memorise the emotions that bring you love.

FEW KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER

• Anyone at any age can develop new habits or skills.

• Our abilities are affected by stress.

• We can work out our brains like we work out our bodies. The more effort we expend, the better our results will be.

• Our brains are made up of over 100 billion neurons which are capable of generating somewhere around 60,000 thoughts per day.

• A neural network is made out of tiny nerve cells that branch out and connect to other nerve cells forming a network.

• Our memories store a chemical blueprints (emotions) of past experiences; these chemicals are defined by our reaction or response to a particular experience (love or fear).

• As neural connections develop & strengthen, the grey matter in our brain physically changes as well.

Imagine how it would feel like to live in total balance
and harmony, to have the inner freedom to experience an abundance of joy through the simple things in life. Imagine how it will feel to get that spark of natural enthusiasm back into your life.

Bring out a better version of yourself by listening to our wide selection of Guided Meditations

today!

SOURCE –
Evolve your brain

SOURCE –
The Rewired Brain

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drjoedispenza.com

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The Brain That Changes Itself