Randal Cunningham - Neuroplasticity: The Brains Way of Healing: Ultimate Guide to Using Brain Plasticity and Rewiring Your Brain for Change

Neuroplasticity : The Brai n s Way of Healing

Ultimate Guide to Using Brain Plasticity and Rewiring Your Brain for Change

Randal Cunningham

Table of Contents

Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book , Nueroplasticity: The Brai n s Way of Healing, Ultimate Guide to Using Brain Plasticity and Rewiring Your Brain for Chang e

For years it was believed that the brain was fully matured and developed by our very early teenage years. However, in recent years there have been quantum leaps in the field of brain research and scientists have found this to be far from the truth.

We have seen first-hand cases where patients make near miraculous recoveries from debilitating brain injuries including alleviating chronic pain, children with autism normalizing, and the great reduction or complete disappearance of the symptoms of individuals suffering from Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, and many other previously thought permanent and devastating diseases. These miracles were all performed without scalpels, nasty scars, or invasive procedures. The key to these recoveries was the brain's natural ability to heal.

This book dives into great detail on how to apply your brain's natural powers and ability to reconstruct and rewire to enhance the quality of your life. Use your brain's natural gifts to change behaviors, make new habits stick, and gain an amazing new perspective on existence. If you are hoping to improve memory, stave off dementia, and create more productive skills quickly and permanently then this ultimate guide is for you.

Thanks for downloading and I truly hope you enjoy this book and best of luck on your journey to the brain mastery!

Thanks Again!

-Randal

Chapter 1: You Can Change your Brai n s Plasticity

Many people think that old habits die hard. It makes them believe that there is no chance for them to get rid of bad habits and replace them with better ones. However, according to science, this old adage is hardly true. If you are one of those people who wants to start afresh, let go of bad repetitive behavior, and adapt good ones, then here is some good new s your brain can actually change the way it functions.

Neuroplasticity, in a nutshell, means that the way your brain gets wired is based on the things that you repeatedly do. That means that whenever you adapt a habit, the way your brain is physically configured changes. That makes it easier for you to do actions that you always decide to do, without expending too much brain energy.

That also means that it is easier for children to pick up habits and stick to them compared to adults since the brains of children are still developing. For example, you may have noticed that thumb-sucking or nail-biting can be easily ingrained in children, but once they have better options to deal with anxiety, they can stop these habits faster than how adults can quit smoking. However, it does not mean that your brai n s plasticity has already stopped. No matter how old you are your brain can still change to adapt to habits that you want to stick to.

Your brain is the hub of all lif e s possibilitie s depending on how you use your brain, you can change the way you experience life. If you are not born with a talent to play instruments, then you can change it by training your brain to be more musically-inclined. You can even train your brain to improve your bodily strength, eyesight, and any other bodily process. The good thing is that this ability of the brain to be molded according to your will is a natural condition that exists as long as your brain has the ability to function.

Yes, neuroplasticity is a life-long process, and as long as you are alive and able to commit to actions, conscious or not, your brai n s configuration can still change.This means that your brai n s ability to transform according to the stimulus around you can allow you to override genetic traits that you received from your parents when you were born. Of course, how you can override these traits would depend on how you ca n mol d your brai n s abilities with your experiences.

While adults do have the capacity to still develop neuroplasticity, balance is important when it comes to ensuring your brain continues its development. Activities like playing chess, learning an instrument, or speaking a new language are proven to prevent dementia in people. However, doing activities for a very long time to the point that they promote stress would overload the brain and deteriorate it over time.

Why give importance to neuroplasticity, then? If you are able to continue improving your brain, then there is no reason for you to worry about age when it comes to improving yoursel f you can still build a career at the age of 40 and continue picking up skills.

When you continue exercising your brain and ensure that you live a balanced lifestyle, you do not have to worry about that time in your life when you are more likely to develop Alzheime r s or dementi a you would be able to remain a fruitfully experienced person even at a very mature age. Since the brain is also largely responsible for bodily processes, having a positive neuroplasticity is also key to enjoying a healthier body.

If you are living a lifestyle that makes you feel dull, then you still have the chance to abandon bad habits and engage in activities that would help you improve your brain. In the process of doing activities that promote your skills and neuroplasticity, you would be able to reverse the effects of age and unhealthy lifestyle on your mental faculties. Engaging in brain exercises and protecting your brain would soon enlarge brain areas that are responsible for promoting skills that you want to achieve, making it easier for you to stick to better habits.

Of course, your development does not stop there. When you manage to improve different parts of your brain, these improvements spill over to other brain regions, which impact the rest of your body. For example, learning to ride a bike does not only improve your balance, but will also improve your reflexes and your bod y s endurance. That means that neuroplasticity actually allows you to hit two or more skills at the same time.

You have probably heard that it takes 21 days to form a habit. However, this is not true for everyon e there are people who can learn and unlearn habits faster, while there are some who need more time. The manner on how you train yourself to commit to actions that you want to stick to would determine the amount of time that you need to rewire your brain to your liking.

Because there is no one-size-fits-all policy in learning and unlearning habits, it is up to you to understand your own psychology of self-control. This means that you have to learn how to manage your urges in order to make a new action stick until it becomes an unconscious behavior. Once you understand what makes it easier for you to stick to a behavior that would be good for you, you would be able to rewire your brain the way you want it to serve your goals better.

However, your brai n s plasticity can work for and against you, because good and bad habits rewire your brain using the same process. That means that when you quit a habit, your brain also goes through the same process of unwiring nerve cells that correspond to the action that you want to unlearn.

Developing neuroplasticity and developing new habits is like playing a gam e in the beginning of every level, you need to follow a specific set of instructions to achieve a goal and get a corresponding reward. Once you get the hang of what you need to do, you would face challenges of increasing difficulty. Of course, the only difference is that you are doing these challenges in real life.