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Twentieth century scientists had a revolution of invention in regards to the mind and the brain. The brain we had as a child is not the brain we are stuck with. The alchemy and connections in our mind may change. Through free will, our mind may receive new thoughts and construct new realities. The Brain The same ingredients that make up a liver also construct a brain out of which we have a thinking mind. Man is a conscious thinking being. The computer that I am typing on may take in input and give output, but it is not conscious that it is doing so. Man is aware. He may perceive and process. Our brain communicates through chemicals. Neurons (cells) are connected by axons and dendrites. The axons reach out to other cells to disseminate information, and the dendrites receive data from those cells. These chemical connections form as we go through experience. Try to move your right huge toe, and only your right huge toe. Can you do it? Most likely you can not move your right big toe without moving the adjacent toes. This is because your mind has mapped those areas of your feet together. Through repetition of walking your mind has affiliated your toes as one entity and connected the neurons that control your toes together. Experience brings about connections in our mind and repetition strengthens those connections. For a visual analogy, think of a car that has gone down a dirt road so a good deal of times that is has made permanent groves. The groves compel the car to travel in this spot on the road each time it passes by. This is the basis of habit formation. Our tendencies are groves worn into our minds by our life experiences. As children, our parents, our environment, our school, the movements we made, all of it devised the physiology of our brains. That is why a great deal of of our habits and beliefs may be traced back to our childhood. The next logical question is then, “Can I alter the physical connections of my mind to change my habits, behavings and life?” Fortunately the answer is yes. Rewiring Scientists were astonished when they realized that the brains of amputees rewired based on the absent limb. When the brain of Victor Quintero was examined, the conception of phantom limb pain was discovered. Quintero lost his left arm at age 17 in a car accident. When scientists swiped a cotton ball past Quintero’s left cheek, he not only felt the motion on his cheek but likewise on his missing hand. His brain had rewired the real estate committed to his left hand to his left cheek, called cortical remapping. This phenomenon has also been observed in persons with focal hand dystonia. Focal hand dystonia occurs when hand movements are repeated over and over again, as would been occur in concert musicians. As they repeatedly exercise fast complex musical passages for hours on end, their brain begins to rewire and combine the signals is receives from each of the person fingers. The mind sees the digits as one. In focal hand dystonia, a person loses the capacity to move their fingers individually. Just as we can not move our huge tow independent of the others, people with focal hand dystonia cannot move a single finger without moving the others. This is a desolating diagnosis to an individual who has committed their life to music. The treatment? To remap the brain through forced person finger movement. Just as the mind saw two fingers as one, you may instruct the mind to see the fingers on an individual basis again. Change Your Life The experiences in life are in big portion determined by person beliefs. As we have seen through the examples above, continuous repetition gives rise to and beef up connections in our brain. For instance, if you were told, over-and-over again, that you were poor, you would have physically formulated connections in your mind to reinforce the faith of being poor. You would have habits that supported those beliefs and a resulting reality of being poor. However, just as the musicians with focal hand dystonia, we may rewire our brain, the actual physical connections in our brain, by introducing and repeating new life affirming beliefs. Affirmations repeated continuously, may give rise to new neural connections, that in a very real physical sense, alter our physiology and aid new habits and behavings that may change life. We do not have the brain of our youth. Our brains, not just our minds or our thoughts, but our actual physical brains are in flux and responding to our surroundings and sensory input continuously. This is where we get our mind power. |
