Neuroscience: Confidence Building by Rewiring Your Brain

Neuroscience advancements are coming at a wonderful time. Developing the belief to increase your confidence, which will be required during our changing times, is getting easier. 

Neuroscience can help bring in the proof for your logical mind. I hear talk of change frequently from the Internet, from the media regarding the presidential race and from individuals.  The world feels like it is in a flux. 

This can feel unsettling, but before you can change, the old has to die off and fall away and the unknown future can feel a bit scary.  It’s great that Neuroscience has documented that we have a fear center in our brain, the amygdala, that alarms when we are out of our comfort zone, or whenever we feel threat. 

I have learned from my experience that change requires discomfort, and that discomfort apparently was just a part of the process. This was even before Neuroscience finally started letting go of the old dogma about our brains being hardwired and inflexible. 

By the way, the debate about our brain being hardwired and inflexible had been going on for at least 100 years before technology showed up to break the debate.  We did not have clear evidence for this dogmatic belief in the first place, as we did not have the technology to really study the mind and brain.

In fact, it was thought that the mind and the brain were the same. So, why do we so easily believe such negative thoughts about ourselves as Humans? -Something to think about.

Anyway, when we learn to focus clearly on our goal to increase our confidence to accomplish something, such as a skill, and we TAKE THE APPROPRIATE ACTION, we are literally rewiring our brains.  The brain cells that are involved in the skill development will form tighter junctions between each other and larger areas of the brain can be recruited to work on the area being developed. 

Our brains are even capable of developing new brain cells throughout our adult life.  When I was in medical school, we were taught just the opposite.  I was taught that brain cells decline with age and that the brain could not make new cells after a certain very young age. 

Humans who have their own bias run Science and so I don’t wait on science to dictate my beliefs.  Personal experience is enough for me, though having objective technology only strengthens my resolve.

Most people hold these old beliefs about their ability to grow in their confidence and self-esteem as well. Confidence is developed and your brain is waiting on you to believe this and take action.  Self-esteem plays a role in your belief in yourself to do something, but it too can increase when you understand who you really are spirituality in particular. 

Notice here that both tasks require INNER work, before the outer shows up.  Your brain is waiting to assist you on your journey to empowerment.  Neuroscience happily is making it easier to believe!

Comments

[Asia Hadley]

I recently read Candace Pert's book, Molecules of Emotion. In the book she talks about how our bodies and minds function together as parts of an interconnected system.

Every cell in our body is intelligent and we are constantly generating new cells. It makes perfect good sense to me that can always rewire our brains regardless of age.

[Valencia Ray]

Thanks for your comments Asia. I really enjoyed this book also. It is really exciting how science is finally supporting the idea of our ability to create a more expansive reality for ourselves. The possibility of bringing forth our best Self will do more for our world than perpetuating the idea that we are hapless victims of a 'survival of the fittest', mechanistic universe.