Yesterday, Helen and I came across this video on TED Talks and were enthralled not only with what Joe Dispenza was discussing, but with the fabulous images he shared of a neuron creating new connections. We hope that you find it as fascinating as we did. Included below are our notes made while watching the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCxo9GwbP_8&feature=relmfu

[Helen (www.insightfulnutrition.ca) and I watched this video last week, but today it has been removed from YouTube. There are several other videos available from Joe Dispenza, and we encourage you to learn from him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMN_Sd9qdIE]

1.Neo-Cortex – newest, most evolved part of brain; highly specialized

2.Limbic – also known as the mammalian brain – internal chemical brain which regulates internal chemical orders

3.Cerebellum – reptilian brain – seat of subconscious mind – oldest part of brain

• Each of these brains has their own anatomy and circuitry, own individual biocomputer, own physiology and chemistry, own history, own sense of time and space
• In the brain, neurons store and communicate information between and among each other
• Neo-cortex – seat of conscious awareness, loves to gather information
• Learning > new information leads directly to new connections – actual physical change to the brain
• New information is biologically wired into cerebral architecture
• Remembering > maintaining the connections – the more you communicate the more bonded you become – start to form neuro networks which are fired and wired together to create a neuro community
• Mind is the brain in action – experience enriches your brain neurologically (more connections); then it produces a chemical that is called a feeling or emotion; this chemical is released by the limbic brain; this allows you to remember this experience
• Routine lulls the brain to sleep – stress can cause you to make immediate connections (eg, memories of 9-11)
• Your body is your unconscious mind, it does not know the difference between the actual experience in reality that produces the emotion and the emotion that you fabricate by thought alone
• Limbic brain produces neurochemicals
• Stress response – when you can’t turn it off, you’re heading for disease
• Pay attention to how you are feeling – called metacognition > observe who we are being (like observing yourself from outside yourself)
• Metacognition allows us the ability to modify our behaviours and change how we react/do a better job
• Frontal lobe – seat of our awareness – home of the you and the me
• As you think of who you want to be, the frontal lobe acts like a volume control and begins to lower the volume on the circuits in the brain that are connected to the old self
• It begins to silence the old circuits – this allows you to observe and no longer participate
• Next step is to biologically break down the old connections so no longer biologically connected to the old self
• Changes to neural connections can be made with persistence and amplitude
• BDNF – growth factor – goes from the neuron back across the synaptic cleft – can actually steel from neighbouring, weaker connections
• Allows old memories to lose their strength – so you can actually prune away old memories / old self
• Can happen in moments!
• Knowledge > happens in the mind – Experience > happens in the body
• Limbic mind makes a new batch of chemicals – instructing the body chemically
• Repeated exposure to a new thought makes it become real – to point where you no longer have to think about it
• In the example, neurochemically conditioned the body to memorize compassion as well as the conscious mind
• Mind and body activate the cerebellum – the seat of the subconscious mind – so that compassion becomes a habit, then a state of being!

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