Thursday, February 16, 2012

Neuroplasticity of the brain

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By John Krol


Teach Your Consciousness to Cure Your Cortex

Do you know that by learning new things you're changing the anatomy of your own brain? This dazzling capability of the human brain to switch itself according to novel experiences and new data is known as Neuroplasticity.

Every time we learn new things we change the links of neurons (brain cells) and even entire neuronal paths. Every time we change our environment - we change the composition of the brain. Each time we change our behavior -we create major changes in our brain.

These changes can be good, but can be bad also; it all depends on the character of the experiences, like changing your environment but most critically our perception of the experience of the change, plus the environment.

Each event we experience can leave permanent memory traces in our brain so change the brains structure.

As an example, a teen girl who was exposed to thin celebrity images can become dissatisfied with her own body image and then develop an eating disorder. In this example she learned that thin celebs are considered to be lovely. Then she immediately created a new negative experience for herself by comparing her own body with the celebrity's body. She was never as thin as the person on telly, thus she became dissatisfied with herself. The final result of this psychological -emotional process is significant changes to the neuronal structures in her brain. These misguided thoughts become new faulty neuronal paths that are then accountable for her developing an eating disorder.

Fortunately , all of these traumatising memories are not written down in stone, or "engraved", to remain unchanged for evermore. Fortunately we will be able to change these faulty structures by successive events and re-transcribe it, then change it to new more constructive thought processes.

All the experiences or events (like dissatisfaction with yourself, emotional injury and so on.) can take on new different meanings later on in life and again we can start to learn to change the structure of the brain to the better.

We will direct the changes in our brain to the better by utilizing a technique called "self-directed neuroplasticity". "Self-directed neuroplasticity" means re-transcription and changing underlying neuronal networks and associated memories and feelings by yourself for yourself.

Folks with eating abnormalities, anxiety, depression and the like can help themselves to improve their own lives by utilizing the "self-directed neuroplasticity" approach at absolutely any stage of the disease. Of course, if you've had an eating disorder for 10 years or longer it'll be more troublesome to switch the brain then if you had it for 5 years, but this also depends a lot on your determination and wish to change.

People who've backbone and a need to change can create the positive feelings that are needed for change, and these feelings will help them to re-transcribe the flawed neuronal paths quicker and simpler. But if you withstand the change and lack doggedness then you'll remain a subject with defective neuronal paths until you consciously get to the point that you must change. Or when you get to the point at which it is more unpleasant to stay with the disorder, than it is to change: this point is usually reached when numerous medical issues arrive from the abuse of their body over time.

The assumption that the brain can change its own structure and function through new activities, thoughts and new behaviors is fantastic and brings much hope for emotional and mental disorder sufferers. These include eating aberrations, tension, depression, compulsive abnormalities, obsessions and other stress related Problems.

"Teach Your Mind to Heal Your Brain" is a term that tells you simply, if you learn how to teach your intellect new positive things you can change the structure of your cerebral cortex for the better as well. If you learn the right strategies then you can improve and even heal your brain from many anomalies. It is really only up to you whether you stick with the old destructive thoughts or change to new better ones: is it your decision?

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