Neuroplasticity explained: Quick & Easy
Think of your brain as a network of communication highways.
It spent all these years building neural pathways.
Skills, habits, memories, thought patterns,…
Our brain is efficient. If something was repeated, it became automatic.
If we want to change thoughts and habits or acquire new skills, we have to build new neural pathways: the key is in the term pathway.
At first, they are just new tracks that we'll have to open. Every time you pass through them, they get wider.
But it's all well and good as long as everything is okay...
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The old, automatic paths continue to exist. And if the stimulus is strong enough...
Here we go again in the quickest and easiest way…
It takes repetition and time.
We are reinforcing the new path, building a new road.
The secret: a stimulus coupled with a strong emotion creates a firm neural pathway.
Emotions are like pavement. When you associate emotion with a new way of acting or thinking, you are laying a solid foundation on the new path.
This is how it's possible to change the structure of our brain.
Be gentle with yourself,
see you soon.
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