How to Motivate our Brain
Best ways to Inspire our Brain.
Have you ever tried to inspire your brain?
We are living in the world of artificial, to live in the
natural world we have to inspire our brain.
We've entered a golden age for brain research, but all
these new findings haven't trickled down to the individual. Yet there are broad
discoveries that make it possible to everyone to improve their brains. Let me
state these succinctly:
• Your brain is constantly renewing itself.
• Your brain can heal its wounds form the past.
• Experience changes the bran every day.
• The input you give your brain causes it to form new
neural pathways.
• The more positive the input, the better your brain will
function.
The new brain is a process, not a thing, and the process
heads in the direction you point it in. A Buddhist monk meditating on
compassion develops the brain circuitry that brings compassion into reality.
Depending on the input it receives, you can create a compassionate brain, an
artistic brain, a wise brain, or any other kind.
However, as Prof. Tanzi and I see it, the agent that
makes these possibilities become real is the mind. The brain doesn't create its
own destiny. Genetics delivers the brain in a functioning state so that the
nervous system can regulate itself and the whole body. It doesn't take your
intervention to balance hormone levels, regulate heartbeat, or do a thousand
other autonomic functions. But the newest part of the brain, the neocortex, is
where the field of possibilities actually lies. Here is where decisions are
made, where we discriminate, worship, assess, control, and evolve.
If you think of everyday experience as input for your
brain, and your actions and thoughts as output, a feedback loop is formed. The
old cliché about computer software -- garbage in, garbage out - applies to all
feedback loops. Toxic experiences shape the brain quite differently from
healthy ones. This seems like common sense, but neuroscience has joined forces
with genetics to reveal that right down to the level of DNA, the feedback loop
that embraces mind and body is profoundly changed by the input processed by the
brain.
Our aim was to cut to the chase. If input is everything,
then happiness and well-being are created by giving the brain positive input.
Without realizing it, you are here to inspire your brain to be the best it can
be. This is much more than positive thinking, which is often too superficial
and masks underlying negativity. The input that inspires the brain includes a
wide array of things. Everyone wants to experience positive feelings (love,
hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) without knowing how to get them. For
all the theories that proliferate about happiness, from the brain's
perspective, the formula is to maximize the positive messages being received by
the cortex and minimize the negative ones.
What this implies isn't a brave new world of thought
control or pretending that life is rosy. Life will always present challenges,
setbacks, and crises. The point is to create a matrix that will allow you to
best adapt to both sides, the light and the dark, of experience.
Here is our recommendation, having considered the most
up-to-date neuroscience.
Matrix
for a Positive Lifestyle
• Have good friends.
• Don't isolate yourself.
• Sustain a lifelong companionship with a spouse or
partner.
• Engage socially in worthwhile projects.
• Be close with people who have a good lifestyle - habits
are contagious.
• Follow a purpose in life.
• Leave time for play and relaxation.
• Keep up satisfying sexual activity.
• Address issues around anger.
• Practice stress management.
• Deal with the reactive mind's harmful effects: When you
have a negative reaction, stop, stand back, take a few deep breaths, and
observe how you're feeling.
Your brain will thrive in such a matrix, even as life
brings its ups and downs. But by the same token, the brain can't arrive at any
of these things on its own. You are the leader of your brain. I'll expand on
this theme in the next post, since the whole issue of feedback loops turns out
to be vital for all kinds of brain functions, including memory and the
prevention of feared disorders like Alzheimer's.
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