It all starts with the brain. The brain is the most complicated organ in the body, and it has received the least research attention. With 100 trillion nerve cells and another 100 trillion additional cells, the brain makes far more connections than the stars in the universe. It occupies only 2% of the weight in the body, but therefore uses 20% - 30% of calories and 20% of oxygen.
We do not use the potential of our most valuable organ enough, but if we take care of it properly, it will save us.
Neuroscience says that nerve cells that function through the same stimuli form a common thread and thus create reality. In a day, we have about 60,000-70,000 thoughts, and 90% of them are the same thoughts as the previous day. Thoughts lead to the same choices, the same choices lead to the same patterns of behavior, and those patterns lead to the same experiences. We have a series of programs in our head. What we need to do is change them. The effect of meditation, like the effect of the neurofeedback method, leads to the creation of new patterns that then create a new personality.
Meditation should become the basis for starting the day, more important than any message on the phone, email or posts on social media. All this does not contribute to our health, on the contrary, it damages it. Start your day by doing something for yourself first. It is better to do it out of desire than out of compulsion. Why should an illness motivate you, when a will is able to.
The meditation technique affects the brain, the brain affects the mind, the mind affects the body and the body affects health, which leads to the conclusion that it has a positive effect on brain plasticity. Neuroplasticity restores the neurons in the brain and thus promotes the development of the cerebral hemispheres and allows it to change. Nerve cells are constantly communicating and if this communication is bad, it further affects the functioning of the mind and the entire organism. This is why communication is an essential skill in all spheres. Exercise enables the work and functioning of nerve cells. If something is unknown, it creates a feeling of discomfort in your brain. Therefore, the beginning of working with meditation will not be pleasant. You will reach an unknown place to become something you were not.
The book "Think and grow rich" actually talks about how to think correctly and be happy because not only money will make us happy, but a way of thinking that leads to fulfillment in every segment of life, not just material. There are many materially rich people, but not many fulfilled and happy people.
Daily medtation practice raises our awareness in behavior and reactions. It helps with self-regulation of emotions and habits. If you apply it, you will treat everything differently. By applying meditation, neurological hardware becomes software.
What we do with practicing meditation, we also do with the using of neurofeedback therapy, only in that case we use technical assistance and not our own self-discipline.
Neurofeedback is a method supported by an electroencephalograph used to treat disorders such as insomnia, anxiety, depression, epilepsy, brain damage due to stroke, addiction, autism, attention deficit disorder...
With the neurofeedback method, the focus is on brain wave activity and enhancing brain activity in optimal ranges.
By taking neurofeedback therapy, you allow your brain to notice every small change in activity, recognize it and adjust it as needed for optimal performance with the goal of positive results. This tool is used to better organize the way the brain switches between different functions and activities. With neurofeedback training, the brain has the ability to calm down when it's time to rest or better activate and engage when it's time for critical thinking or problem solving.
Meditation and neurofeedback are methods of training mental states. Therefore, it is possible that the mental training involved in meditation is not fundamentally different from other types of training and skill acquisition that can cause plastic changes in the brain, such as neurofeedback therapy.
Both techniques facilitate and promote concentration as well as regulation of emotions. When one aims to improve attentional control, one must learn to direct the amount of attention that is stimulated by emotions. Similarly, when a person attempts to exercise a form of cognitive control, it must change the judgments about emotional states. These are the principles of functioning of both meditation and neurofeedback methods with the difference that meditation is self-regulated, and neurofeedback is supported by a technical device.
Nurture your brain because your mind will be truly thankful.
Love lies more naturally in the human heart than its contrary. We should use internal tools to discover it.
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