Linda Mitchell
REWIRE YOUR BRAIN
Recent research shows that our thoughts literally rewire our brain – daily! This discovery in Western medicine within the last few decades supports what many ancient wisdom traditions have known all along – our thoughts, beliefs and outlook have profound physical implications that affect our brains.
For the past 400 years, Western science believed the adult brain remained fixed and unable to change unless it was declining. Many recent discoveries definitively disapprove this profound misunderstanding. We now know that brain anatomy continues to grow and change throughout life. When you change your mindset you change your brain through conscious thoughts, actions and experiences.
Neuroplasticity is the term that describes our brain’s ability to change and explains how thoughts and experiences reorganize neural pathways in the brain. Long lasting functional changes in the brain occur when we learn and practice new things. These changes in neural connections are what we call neuroplasticity. Neuro refers to our nervous system and Plasticity refers to the malleable quality of our brains.
This body of research provides the scientific foundation for the reason why coaching and many self-help practices are so effective. It shows that human nature is much more fluid than originally thought and can be transformed by changing the focus of our thoughts, energy and movement. Empowering people through coaching is actually helping them re-
wire their brains in many productive and exciting ways!
Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself, is a distinguished scientist, medical doctor, professor and psychiatrist. He primarily writes about the science of neuroplasticity, which developed from a growing understanding that the human brain is in fact capable of significant change, self-repair and healing.
Much of the change in our brain begins with conscious habits of thought and action, by teaching the brain to “rewire itself”. The brain changes as it works – constantly.
“Hundreds of studies went on to demonstrate that mental activity is not only the product of the brain but the shaper
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