These 5 facts about the brain will change your life

1. The brain does not know the difference between reality and imagination h3> The brain responds equally to all what you think. In this sense, for him there is no difference between objective reality and your fantasies. For this reason possible so-called placebo effect.

If the brain thinks that you are taking a pharmaceutical preparation (rather than sugar pill), it reacts to it accordingly. He drank a placebo, thinking it was aspirin, and the brain will command the body to lower body temperature.

Similarly, it is working and notsebo effect, but in reverse. If hypochondriac watching the evening news and hear them on the outbreak of a new disease, it can even begin to physically feel the symptoms.

The good news is that if you look at the world in pink glasses, is probably often feel happy due to abnormally high levels of serotonin (hormone of joy) in the blood. Any constructive ideas or dreams of a bright future can improve your physical condition right here and now.

2. You see what you think the most h3> Whatever you may think, it becomes the basis of your experience. For example, if you buy a new car, it will become more likely to notice the cars of this brand in the city. The fact is that after buying you think about your car more frequently than thought until now.

Why is this important to know? The fact that out of any stressful situation by simply reprogramming your thinking. On the other hand, if you try to analyze the political situation that are presented in different media in different ways, then you will believe only those that reflect your own point of view.

There is something else. Have you ever noticed that people fairly quickly grouped with the same interests? Positive people are more likely to make friends with the same positive and hypochondriacs - with hypochondriacs, is not it? It is not a coincidence. If you want to change something in your life, start with a change of thought patterns.

3. Most of the time your brain is working on autopilot h3> The average human brain per day generates 60 thousand. Thoughts. But more than 40 thousand. Of them are the same thoughts that you drove in his head yesterday. That is why it is so easy to slip into a tailspin negative perception of life. And that is why we often have to change the situation on the unfamiliar familiar, to "clean" the brain.

Negative thoughts create stress and anxiety on their own, even if the real reason is not the fact. They real destroy the immune system, which is forced to react to it (see para. 1 number).

Train your brain. < makes it more likely to record positive thoughts. The more you try, the faster and easier you will receive. Treat life consciously - is to try to take all of these unconscious processes under its control. The ultimate aim of the practice - to ensure that the majority of your thoughts, there is a "default" was positive.

4. Periodically shut down - it is vitally important h3> You can literally drown in thousands of negative thoughts that get stuck in your head for days. So you need to "turn off": it will give a respite to the immune system, make you healthier and happier.

The easiest way for a few minutes to "turn off" the brain - meditation. It allows you to turn your mind into a convenient and effective tool.

And further. About vacation. Choose activities: skiing, scuba diving, hiking. The easier you focus on an exciting process, the better "cleaned" the head.

5. You can change your mind. Literally. Physically h3> When you focus on some mental activity, your brain at this moment actively generates new neural connections. This process is called neuroplasticity biologists.

Here's how it works. If you think you are not able to lose weight, over time will only be strengthened in this thought. But if you replace it with a subconscious belief in the idea: "I'm in great shape," then your brain will each time to build her new neural connections. You will begin to notice more and more new features that will enable you to turn this subconscious installation into a new reality.

You have the ability to subdue your mind and change. You are able to achieve everything you want. The main thing - to believe in it. For any physical process begins with the thoughts that arise in your mind.



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