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BE✨ learn how to re-wire your brain 🧠 ⤵️
Self-directed neuroplasticity is the process of physically changing our brain structures and functions by intentionally redirecting our focus and what we pay attention to. In this way, it is possible to ‘rewire’ our brains to get unstuck and overcome limiting beliefs, negative thinking patterns, disruptive emotions, and self-sabotaging behaviours.
🧠 To apply self-directed neuroplasticity, a good starting point would be to become very selective in what and who you continuously expose yourself to, what you focus on and what you repeat.
To affect lasting change in brain networks and functions, the following techniques and practices can be helpful:
1️⃣ Selective Attention
Attention is a limited resource and whatever we hold in attention has the ability to change our brains and our lives, so we have to choose wisely. Selective attention is the ability and skill to focus on a specific stimulus (issue, topic, event) or activity of choice, even in the presence of other distracting stimuli. This comes down to deciding what we will read, listen to, watch, talk about and spend on. Deliberately steering our attention in this way is both a decision to make and a skill to be learned.
2️⃣ Mindfulness
Humans spend very little of our ‘thinking time’ on what is happening with us ‘right now’. We spend a lot of time thinking about the past. Mindfulness is the state of being ‘fully present’ in the moment – being aware of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and environment without judgment or interpretation. Being mindful is a skill that can be learned through practice and mindfulness meditation.
3️⃣ Cognitive Reframing
Cognitive reframing (aka ‘cognitive restructuring’) is based on the principle that our points-of-view and interpretations of the world largely depends on the ‘frame’ it is viewed in. Changing from a negative frame to a more positive frame about the same situation allows us to recognise other ways of seeing and interpreting, thereby increasing the choices available to us and our adaptability to people, events, and situations.
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