“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”
― Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator
“Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.”
― Andrew Weil, Spontaneous Healing
“Pushing our self past our boundaries of limitation and extreme, sometimes to something that knocks off our comfort zone, it creates new neuro pathways with our brain, we become smarter, wiser, more clarity, our life becomes more fulfilling. Only because we have a totally new experience. We get a new brain with that. Neuroplasticity”
― Angie karan
Do you want to change the way you think, behave, and feel? Do you want to change habits, or think about something differently? Can you rewire your brain to live a healthy and abundant life? The scientific answer is yes, you can sculpt your own brain.
There are a lot of scientific studies to prove that the brain has the ability to change and heal itself. Your brain is a grid of pathways and connections. The pathways that you use often or get triggered with your habitual thinking and behaviours become strong and determine your typical ways of acting, thinking, behaving and feeling. In case of certain diseases, some of these pathways are dead or weak or have erroneous patterns.
If you learn a new task, choose to think differently or choose different emotions or push ourselves beyond our boundaries and comfort zones, your brain will form new neural pathways. With repetition of specific thoughts and behaviours, and focussed attention, these new pathways will become stronger and the older ways of thinking and doing things become weaker. As you leverage these new pathways more and more in your actions, thoughts and feelings, these become second nature. Replacing older connections and pathways with newer ones is neuroplasticity. With repetition and directed attention, you can effectively rewire your brain.
“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.” ― Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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