Neuroplasticity

Think of your brain like a garden where the paths you walk most often become the easiest to follow. Every time you think a thought or learn something new, you are actually growing new branches in your head. If you tell yourself you are brave, your brain builds a brave road that gets stronger every day. This means you are not stuck being who you were yesterday; you can grow into someone totally new. You have the power to plant new seeds in your mind garden whenever you want.

You are not stuck being who you were yesterday. Every thought you think is a vote. Think it once — suggestion. Think it twice — pattern. Think it a thousand times — identity. But the road works both ways. The path you stop walking gets overgrown. The fear you stop feeding gets quieter. The story you stop telling loses its cast. Your brain is not concrete. Your brain is clay. And the sculptor is not your past. The sculptor is whatever you choose to repeat today. The garden does not care what was planted last year. The garden only cares what you water right now.

Neuroplasticity: synaptic pruning and long-term potentiation as the mechanism by which narrative identity becomes hard-coded into neural architecture. The garden does not care what was planted last year. The garden only cares what you water right now.

SOUND: A steady drumbeat your brain waves eventually sync up with: rhythm rewiring you in real time.

SMELL: Petrichor — fresh rain on dry dirt: the scent of a brain starting over.

TASTE: A sour lemon that makes your mouth pucker, forcing your brain to focus only on the now.

TOUCH: Molding warm clay into a new shape: your hands doing what your neurons are doing.

SIGHT: A timelapse of a flower blooming: growth too slow to see but too real to deny.

BODY: Balancing on one foot and feeling your brain making tiny adjustments: rewiring in real time to keep you upright.

Music: Hallucinogenics by Matt Maeson

Music: Older Chests by Damien Rice

Music: Round Here by Counting Crows

Music: Mr. Brightside by The Killers

Music: Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Part of Memory & Time — CONSCIOUSNESS — Education Revelation