What Happens to Your Brain When You Change Your Mind and Change Your Life? Smarter Ways of Achieving Your Goals and Changing Your Life

Why do people fail to achieve their goals? Instead of changing their life, most people get stuck in their old patterns and habits. This is a heart-breaking outcome for millions of people who work so hard to hard to change their life for the better.

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How do you avoid failure and achieve your goals successfully?

It’s important to understand what gets in your way and what can help you achieve success. Don’t bother beating yourself up if you’ve failed before  –  that’s a big waste of your time. Besides, it’s counter-productive to do something that can lower your self-esteem while attempting to transform your life. Just learn from your mistakes and be smarter about your goal-setting. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again.

There are many roadblocks to achieving your goals. Most people read a lot and become very knowledgeable about what they’re trying to achieve. This is a good thing to do, but it’s not enough.

Some people even go to seminars and get training to become successful at what they’re trying to do. This is great, but it’s still not enough. These activities can keep you busy  — and you might even think you’re now on your way to achieving your goals  –  but, nothing will really happen until you take action.

Reading about it, going to seminars, getting training and becoming more knowledgeable about what you’re trying to achieve will NOT help you unless you apply and implement your knowledge.

Knowledge can be totally useless, if you don’t apply it. Even positive thinking can only take you so far. It will take good ideas and practical steps to make things happen. Yes, you absolutely need to take action.

What happens to your brain when you change your mind and change your life?

As you probably already know, your brain changes every time you learn something new. Did you know that when you keep practicing a new skill, the changes in your brain are strengthened? If you persist and consistently practice your new skill, the changes in your brain can become permanent.

Yes, it’s true! Scientific evidence supports the idea that practice makes perfect.

Here’s a little background information…

In the late 1960s or early 1970s, neuroscientists started making unexpected discoveries about the previously considered unchanging brain. They found that the brain can change it’s structure when it performed different activities  –  it perfected its neurological circuits until it was better able to handle the task at hand. Neuroscientists started calling this fundamental brain property, “neuroplasticity” or “brain plasticity.”

By applying the scientific findings about neuroplasticity or brain plasticity, some scientists have been able to do the following:

• Help a person–blind since birth–to see
• Help a deaf person to hear
• Help people–considered incurable–recover from strokes they suffered decades before
• Help raise IQs and cure people with learning disabilities
• Help eighty-year-olds sharpen their memories to function at the same level as when they were fifty-five
• Help cure people with previously incurable obsessive disorders and traumas.

The idea that thinking, learning and acting can change brain structure and function is one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century.

Like all revolutionary ideas, neuroplasticity will have profound effects. Instead of an unchanging brain, studies have shown that children are not always stuck with mental abilities that they’re born with. In addition, damaged brain can re-organize itself and recover from impairment. The neuroplastic revolution has implications for our understanding of how learning, addictions, psychotherapies, relationships, culture, technology, habits and disorders as well as all forms of training change our brain.

NOTE: If you want to learn more about the emerging field of neuroplasticity or brain plasticity, check out, “The Brain That Changes Itself” by Norman Doidge. There are many books on this subject, but I like this one because it’s written clearly. You can understand the scientific findings even if you don’t have a science background. It’s fascinating stuff!

Brain plasticity is a good reason why consistently taking action can dramatically increase your chances of achieving your goals. If you just increase your knowledge, of course, your brain will change. However, dramatic changes will not take place unless you keep practicing your new skill(s). This also applies to changing your habit or changing your attitude.

There you have it. There’s supporting scientific evidence for the power of positive thinking and taking action. You really can change your mind and change your life.

I hope that helps you…

Allie

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