Steps to lasting change
Until quite recently scientists thought that our brains stopped growing in childhood and that it was ‘fixed’ by the time we became adults. Now we know that isn’t true.
Our brains are a bit like plastic that can be changed and rearranged to form new shapes. Our brains can and do change throughout our lives. They can and do adapt to events. This is known as neuroplasticity.
How does this works?
Think of the brain as being like a grid with lots of pathways which light up when we use them. Some of them are well travelled and light up easily. For instance, the phone goes and the pathway that says ‘answer the phone’ lights up and, before you know it, you’ve answered the phone. It’s a habit to react this way. You just do it without thinking. It’s become an automatic response. You didn’t always do this. At some point in your life you didn’t even know what a phone was. We have to learn how to respond, and repeating responses usually means they became automatic.
So, the good news is that we can change our habits and learn how to do things differently.
It’s a stretch of grass. You can mow a strip down it and each time you mow that strip it becomes easier to walk down it. On the other hand, if you stop mowing that bit of grass, it will become overgrown and difficult to get along.
By repeating new actions often we can change ourselves. What I’m going to share with you is an easy way to create new habits all based on making small changes and taking small steps.
Until quite recently scientists thought that our brains stopped growing in childhood and that it was ‘fixed’ by the time we became adults. Now we know that isn’t true.
Our brains are a bit like plastic that can be changed and rearranged to form new shapes. Our brains can and do change throughout our lives. They can and do adapt to events. This is known as neuroplasticity.
How does this works?
Think of the brain as being like a grid with lots of pathways which light up when we use them. Some of them are well travelled and light up easily. For instance, the phone goes and the pathway that says ‘answer the phone’ lights up and, before you know it, you’ve answered the phone. It’s a habit to react this way. You just do it without thinking. It’s become an automatic response. You didn’t always do this. At some point in your life you didn’t even know what a phone was. We have to learn how to respond, and repeating responses usually means they became automatic.
So, the good news is that we can change our habits and learn how to do things differently.
It’s a stretch of grass. You can mow a strip down it and each time you mow that strip it becomes easier to walk down it. On the other hand, if you stop mowing that bit of grass, it will become overgrown and difficult to get along.
By repeating new actions often we can change ourselves. What I’m going to share with you is an easy way to create new habits all based on making small changes and taking small steps.
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