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Our thoughts have more power than we realize in shaping our brain and life path. The brain is constantly rewiring itself based on our thoughts, either reinforcing negative or positive patterns. Recent research shows that practices like meditation can alter the brain's structure and function by promoting positive thoughts and awareness. Simple techniques like recognizing negative self-talk, pairing it with positive thoughts, daily mantras, and meditation can help shift our brain wiring toward more positive patterns over time.

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Thoughts

Our thoughts have more power than we realize in shaping our brain and life path. The brain is constantly rewiring itself based on our thoughts, either reinforcing negative or positive patterns. Recent research shows that practices like meditation can alter the brain's structure and function by promoting positive thoughts and awareness. Simple techniques like recognizing negative self-talk, pairing it with positive thoughts, daily mantras, and meditation can help shift our brain wiring toward more positive patterns over time.

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Riches, mediocrity and poverty begin in the mind.

Remez Sasson
How do you talk to yourself? Do you find fault with most aspects of your life?
Do you talk to others like that? Would let anyone talk to you like that?
When we stop to listen to what our minds are telling us, its shocking to realize how much of it is
negative. It may seem overwhelming and leave you feeling powerless over your mind and the direction
it wants to lead you.
Prior to 20 years ago, we thought the brain was hard-wired and fixed, but we now know that from birth
to the end of life, our mind is constantly changing and our thoughts are more powerful than we ever
imagined guiding the steps in our lives.
Our individual thoughts determine the structure of our brain and the steps that we will take out
to lay down the path of our lives.
You probably notice that the more compassionate talk you have with yourself, the more grace you give
yourself for failing and trying again.
Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
The concept of this emerging field of science is called neuroplasticity the brains ability to
reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. In the last two decades, neuroscientists have
overthrown the dogma that the adult brain cannot change. Changes in neuroplasticity has led to
promising treatment in every aspect of life from treatment of stroke and injury victims, dyslexia to
prevention of cancer. But there are everyday aspects of this emerging revolution of science that we can
apply to our every day lives and the process is simple.
These changes are seen in many areas of the brain including the anterior cingulate cortex and the
amygdala. Unless you are a neuroscientist, which I once was, the names do not matter as much as the
message does. In his newest book released this year, Just One Thing, Rick Hanson, Ph.D. says The
details are complex, but the key point is simple: how you use your mind changes your brain for better
or worse.

Whats most important is that the brain is constantly rewiring itself. Sometimes its haphazard, other
times reinforcing positive thoughts and more often negative thoughts. Unfortunately, the brain has a
natural tendency to hold on to negative experiences more often It is up to you. You didnt have that
choice as a kid, but you make that choice as an adult. Your negative self-talk that has uniquely wired
your brain and guided your actions for months or even years can cease over time.
Dont believe everything you think.
In the labs of at institutions including the University of Wisconsin and Harvard Medical School,
ground-breaking Western medicine meets centuries-old Eastern practices revealing the power of the
mind to sculpt our gray matter. At the University of Wisconsin Waisman Laboratory for Brain,
Professor Richard Davidson is funded by the 14th Dalai Lamas personal trust to study the effects of
meditation and compassion on the brain. The Dalai Lama has a long-standing interest in Davidsons
work. Over the past decade, the Dalai Lama has supplied Davidson with over a dozen Tibetan
Buddhists with over 10,000 hours of meditation. Research suggested that meditation altered the
structure and function of the brain. One of the greatest passions of the 14 th Dalai Lama is an alliance
between Buddhism and science. The Tibetan Monks have been shown to have powerful gamma activity
unlike anything researchers had ever seen. Davidson developed a passion for meditation since the
1960s.
But, you dont have to become a Tibetan monk to create a more positive path and permanent change.
More recently, on the East Coast at Massachusetts General Hospital, Sarah Lazar, Ph.D., an avid runner
and yoga enthusiast, showed that in a matter of eight weeks, mindfulness meditation training changes
brain structure, especially in areas associated with awareness and compassion.
So what can you do to shift the change in your brain to more positive thoughts and rewire what we
once thought was stuck? Here are 5 things you can start doing today:

1) Awareness
Recognize your negative thoughts. Do you talk to yourself in a way that you would not allow others? Is
there a pattern or a certain aspect of your life? About your body, your successes, in relationships? Dont
judge it. Just recognize it. Self-compassion. Watch how you talk to yourself. Tell yourself, I chose to
give myself the grace and compassion I have always extended to others. Be a conscious observer of
your thoughts without judgement.

2) Attach a positive thought to a negative one


Im out of breath, but I can now run a 5K. Im stronger.

3) Start each day with a daily devotion or mantra


4) Meditation and other mindfulness practices
Stay present in the moment and refrain from negatively rewiring your brain. Be still with yourself upon
waking or right before falling asleep when the conscious and subconscious are closest.

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