I do a lot of reading on brain research. I don't claim to understand it all but it helps to inform my work with families with behavioral and emotional struggles. It also helps me manage my own brain/life! One of the things that keeps popping out at me (it is important to recognize the "pop ups" in your life when they aren't the internet ads on your computer screen) is the saying "neurons that fire together, wire together." I won't go into a lengthy description of this saying other than to explain that when you have an "experience" your brain fires various neurons in response to that experience. If these experiences are repetitive then your brain will literally rewire itself to accommodate that experience and changes its neuron structure.

Let that soak in for a minute...

The therapeutic value of that saying is huge! You can train your brain by engaging in repetitious experiences. Engage in positive experiences and you reap positive brain structures. Engage in negative experiences and you get negative structures. It is as basic as that. Your action plan to change your thoughts should start to become obvious as you meditate on that idea.

Here's a revelation I had today: I need to stop trying to redo old problems and reworking old issues. I need new experiences to form new brain structures.

Revelation #2: The more I form new brain structures, the more "capacity" I have to experience positive experiences. We will reflect on "capacity" at another time as that is a fascinating idea too....but for today, form your own revelations as you meditate on the saying: "neurons that fire together, wire together."

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