Do you actively take care of your brain? If not, why not? Did you know that how you feel is the work of your brain - and thus it is within your control? In fact, every thing that goes on in you - your thoughts, your action and your feelings are all in your control.

2. Do you actively take care of your brain? If not, why not? Did
you know that how you feel is the work of your brain - and
thus it is within your control? In fact, every thing that goes
on in you - your thoughts, your action and your feelings are
all in your control.

3. If you know how your brain works, and if you know how to
tame it instead of letting it tame you, you can change your
life. For example, there are people who seems to have
everything yet is clinically depressed - just look at the cases
if drug abuse famous "celebrities" engage in. While others
who seems to have every reason to be depressed yet are
the happiest persons on earth.

4. What is the difference between these people? Is it wealth?
Meaningful relationships? Beauty? It's the way they control
their brain! In this article, I'll introduce you to some
methods you can utilize NOW to improve your brain
functions - and thus improve your quality of your life. Let's
get started. First, let me briefly explain how your brain
works.

5. Did you know that your brain is made of billions of brain
cells? These brain cells are called neurons. These neurons
are what's responsible for any action you take and any
thought you have. If you want to move your hand, for
example, the neurons responsible will fire signals to the
appropriate areas of your body.

6. Thousands of neurons fire just to move your hand. To
make the process more effective (use less energy to do the
same task), these neurons that fire together, wire together
by creating synapses between them.
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The more you fire those neurons together, the stronger the
synapses become - so that the next time one of the
neurons fire, the others will also follow suit.

7. Thus when a baby learn to walk, he/she wobbles -- the
neurons responsible for walking has not created the
necessary synapses. As adults, walking is an unconscious
effort. You do not need to think about moving your right
leg forward, while at the same swing your left hand
backward and so on and so forth (Our walking function is
so complex no other animal brain is capable of controlling
such a function). This is because the synapses involved in
walking has wired together and made the process
effortless and automatic.

8. What has this got to do with you? Well, you maybe
unknowingly creating undesirable synapses. For example, if
you're watching TV on a frequent basis, soon a neural
network will form between excitement and fast moving
pictures - making reality comparatively uninteresting.
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9. What's worse is that when you go through an experience
(practical instead of theoretical), neurotransmitters are
released with the formation of every synapse. These
neurotransmitters immediately strengthen those synapses,
making it difficult for you to forget about it (this is true for
most cases of a memorable scene in a TV program). Think
about your first kiss, the day your get married, the day your
parents bought you that house... or any other memorable
events in your life.

10. Yet few of us frequently and actively recall these joyous
times. We do, however, frequently recall events that are
less than desirable.
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11. Because neurons for remembering an experience is always
connected to neurons responsible for emotions, by
recalling undesirable events, you're putting yourself
through the negative emotions attached. To make things
worse, recalling an event strengthens the synapses
involved in the memory - making it easier for you to recall
it.

12. Thus a habit is formed. Most people constantly sabotage
their well-being by conjuring past images and living
through them over and over again.
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13. We can see, now that you know how a habit is formed, just
how "asleep" we have been in our life. Here, think about
your morning routine. Each and every morning, you
probably do the same tasks, in the order for the same
amount of time.

14. It's a habit you've unknowingly formed. Your morning
routine is not necessarily harmful, but are you taking the
same approach to life in general? Are you living passively,
instead of actively? Are there any "addictions" that you can
get rid of -- perhaps watching TV at a certain time,
gossiping and even the cups of coffee you "must" have
during breaks?

15. Most people live in this sort of reactive mode and letting
the environment determine how they should feel. That is
the limbic system talking -- the part of your brain
responsible for emotions.
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16. By living in reactive mode, the synapses in your frontal
lobe, where your consciousness resides, is thus weak
because it's rarely fired, resulting is some of the most
common age-related diseases such as the inability to learn.

17. >>>Sonavel<<<
By making use of our frontal lobe, we can break these
patterns and create new ones. One way to do that is to
constantly expose yourself to novel experiences. When
you're going through a novel experience, you have no
choice but to use your frontal lobe -- thus preventing or
potentially reversing a host of age-related cognitive decline.
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