How Your Brain Wires Itself & How You Can Benefit
The old stigma old habits die hard is true. It's hard to conquer our old nature and overcoming it with new strategies that have a far better ROI.
When it comes to wiring your brain to do specific tasks your mind uses old neural pathways that have built strength over time. Whenever you are trying to implement new neural pathways your old pathways have more strength. This is why understanding how to strengthen them is necessary.
Your brain works with past experiences to strengthen behavior. For example, the neurons you use repeatedly are strengthened by Myelin. You can think of Myelin like a cushion that that strengthens a fiber.
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Your brain builds a lot of circuits and neurons when you are young. What you do in adolescence has a direct correlation with your actions in the future. Your brain tends to cooperate less as you get older when you are trying to build new habits.
Think of an electrical current that is going through different points those that are stronger are more reliable according to your brain. It doesn't matter if it is the most efficient way or best way. Your brain goes with what is more comfortable.
There is a point that Loretta Graziano PHD states in happy chemicals, “ Your brain is motivated to see the good and avoid the bad, so it focuses on inputs relevant to those goals. As a result, you keep developing connected neurons and not developing others. Some neurons atrophy because they are not relevant to your survival.”
So we know that neurons carry messages to the brain and these neurons have pathways that are strengthened by myelin. The myelin is strengthened based on past experiences. If you want to develop a long-lasting change to combat old habits you have to build neural pathways with two things.
Emotions and Repetition. These two things have to coincide if you want to have the best result. If you want to wire your brain in a specific way reward yourself for doing the task that you know will bring the results you want. Repeat the process daily until it becomes a habit. I always like to say that it takes 45 days to make it happen. So start today!
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