Neural Plasticity: 4 Steps to Change Your Brain

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Neural Plasticity According to Michael Merzenich from the book The Brain that Changes Itself, practicing a new habit under the right conditions, can change hundreds of millions and possibly billions of the connections between the nerve cells in our neural pathways. The human brain is made up of an estimated 100 billion neurons making a [...]

Transform Your Habits By Conditioning Your Brain

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The Cause of Habits Do you find yourself repeating patterns year after year making the same New Years resolutions? What causes the phenomena of habits or why you do what you do? Quite simply, your habits are a result of the natural conditioning of your brain. The repetition of your thoughts, feelings and actions form [...]

Neuroscience of Emotion

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  Neural Hijacking   In the past it was believed that information from your senses was analyzed by the thinking brain (cortex) first. Now with new scientific findings we know your perceptions, go directly to the emotional brain (amygdala) without passing through the thinking, decision-making brain first. Daniel Goleman in his research and book on [...]