About The Human Brain

Other than regulating the bodily activities, the human brain or often referred as the gray matter, is an organ of the body inside the head that is responsible for memory, perceptions, thoughts, feelings and it's the center of consciousness.

It is a powerful organ that requires oxygen to function effectively. Deficiency of oxygen can cause several complications from dizziness to stroke and brain damage. One of the easiest ways to ensure sufficient supply of oxygen is to breathe deeply.

It is also an electrochemical organ. It produces natural neurochemicals like serotonin, endorphin and dopamine. These chemicals affect our moods and functions. And it operates at different frequencies namely Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta.

Many of us fail to reach success in life because we allow our brains to run on its own. We let it flashes pictures and vivid reruns of our unpleasant experiences. We are always stressed and don't know how to relax and because of these we are unable to put ourselves in an alpha state at will. But we can give new instructions and commands to change the neural conditioning or mental programming.

This powerful human organ is like a filing system. Every experience that you have seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelled in your life is stored in it. These recordings are brought into your conscious awareness when triggered by outside events. You can play back a scene that you have seen and hear a song in your head.

You can feel hungry just by the smell of your favorite food and feel your heart warming thinking of the touch of a loved one. The stored memories simplify your life and make it easier for you to grasp the happenings in the world.

Your life experiences are stored inside and take up its own spatial location. You use your eyes to access the parts of the filing system. Your eye movements tell a lot about what is going on in your head. When you are trying to remember something, your eyes will usually move up to the left. Your eyes will move to different directions when recalling a sound or a feeling that you have felt.

When you focus your mind on something, it deletes other things that you do not want from your attention. It processes, codes and transforms whatever you experience and deliver the messages back to your representational system. This creates your feelings and your sense of knowing and believing. However, it will also distort your perception and cause misinterpretations because you will only see what you are focusing on.

Giving New Instructions to the Brain

Change the frequency.

During your waking hours when you are alert, it is on Beta frequency. This is the state when you are solving problems and thinking. The Alpha waves occur when you are relaxed but alert and it brings out the good feeling plus improves your creativity. The Theta state occur during sleep and the Delta is when you are in deep sleep. Deep meditation, hypnosis and brainwave entrainment with binaural beats are tools you can use to change the frequencies. Other kind of sounds or music that doesn't change the frequency won't change its effectiveness.

Take good brain food.

Certain food affects its function and brainpower like memory and learning. Researchers recommend a sufficient supply of Omega 3 fatty acid which is mostly obtained by eating fish especially salmon. Other good sources are Gingko Biloba, choline and Acai berries which contain antioxidant, vitamins and Omega 3.

Tell it what to do.

Give it instructions and directions. Create new mental pictures of yourself. Change the self image you have been portraying. You must give it goals to achieve and directions to move toward. The brain does not differentiate an imagined or a real experience. You can use this knowledge to trick your brain by visualizing a different outcome. Repetition of the patterns of thoughts will condition it to produce something new and soon it will become automatic.

Play around with your memories.

If you were to pay attention, you will notice the colors, the sounds and the sensations that appear in your mental pictures. You can consciously play around with the brightness of a disturbing picture just like how you do it with your light control switch.

You can mentally decrease the volume of a repetitive criticism or add any music to it. Your memories can be distorted and once it is done the meaning will transform. It will affect your emotions and expressed in your body physically.

Questioning and using creative thinking.

It does matter how you ask yourself questions. If you ask yourself why bad things happen to you all the time, you will get all the reasons from your stored data. However, if you ask yourself how you could do something better, you would receive more empowering answers. Ask yourself better questions even if you think you do not yet have the answers.

If you repeatedly ask and focus on getting the answers, you will find the appropriate solutions to your problems and challenges. The words you use have power. Your memory storage comprises of your language and your sensory representations. How you word your language represents your experiences. How you ask yourself questions will determine the answers that you get.