Words Can Change Your Brain

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can change your brain.
That’s right.

According to Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman, words can literally change your brain.

In their book, Words Can Change Your Brain, they write: “a single word has the power to influence the expression of genes that regulate physical and emotional stress.”

Positive words, such as “peace” and “love,” can alter the expression of genes, strengthening areas in our frontal lobes and promoting the brain’s cognitive functioning. They propel the motivational centers of the brain into action, according to the authors, and build resiliency.

Conversely, hostile language can disrupt specific genes that play a key part in the production of neurochemicals that protect us from stress. Humans are hardwired to worry — part of our primal brains protecting us from threats to our survival — so our thoughts naturally go here first.

However, a single negative word can increase the activity in our amygdala (the fear center of the brain). This releases dozens of stress-producing hormones and neurotransmitters, which in turn interrupts our brains’ functioning. (This is especially with regard to logic, reason, and language.) “Angry words send alarm messages through the brain, and they partially shut down the logic-and-reasoning centers located in the frontal lobes,” write Newberg and Waldman.

According to the authors, using the right words can transform our reality:

By holding a positive and optimistic [word] in your mind, you stimulate frontal lobe activity. This area includes specific language centers that connect directly to the motor cortex responsible for moving you into action. And as our research has shown, the longer you concentrate on positive words, the more you begin to affect other areas of the brain. Functions in the parietal lobe start to change, which changes your perception of yourself and the people you interact with. A positive view of yourself will bias you toward seeing the good in others, whereas a negative self-image will include you toward suspicion and doubt. Over time the structure of your thalamus will also change in response to your conscious words, thoughts, and feelings, and we believe that the thalamic changes affect the way in which you perceive reality.

By THERESE J. BORCHARD

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/11/30/words-can-change-your-brain/

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Confidence and Hypnosis

Grow Your Confidence

We are what we think or more importantly we think what we are. How does this affect our lives every moment that we are awake? There is a saying that if we think we can, we are right, and if we think we can’t we are right.

How often do we tell ourselves that I would do that, only I think I probably can’t? Invariably, you attempt the said project only to have it unravel around your ears hence proving to yourself that you were right thinking you couldn’t do it. If only you had the confidence to try something that you had never allowed yourself to try before.

The key here is the word confidence where if you have the confidence you are actually thinking in a different way. Confidence allows us to start the process of thinking of a positive outcome that often allows us to achieve our goal as stated. How much easier is it to approach our tasks with that positive expectation just because we displayed the confidence and commitment to go after our goal. On the flip side, we have the person who lacks confidence and sees the challenge as to big and something that they probably can’t do. And they are right because we will sabotage our efforts, one way or another, and not achieve the result we were after. An often disputed topic is the difference between negative and positive thinking. I will delve into these aspects in detail at a later date.

However, I will ask you, how much easier would our lives be if we were to approach all of our goals with new found confidence? I can hear you now saying to yourself, yes it’s good for you because you have the confidence to do this. Well, in reply imagine how much easier your life would be if you had that confidence as well. In what way can I get this you may ask? Imagine if it was as easy as listening to a recording specifically tailored to instilling confidence within.

How would it feel to be able to approach your daily tasks with the enthusiasm and confidence that you deserve? State of the art recordings on confidence hypnosis could be the start of something special in your life now. Of course there is a lot more to add when talking about the power of the mind, so I shall expand upon these topics in future posts.