It’s brain science – not rocket science.
Although they’re built from complex mixtures of chemicals and nerve cells, our brains aren’t that difficult to change. Our everyday habits, interactions with other people, and even our diets can potentially rewire the brain.
In fact, just by focusing on the words on this site, you could be changing your brain right now.
Daniel Siegel, MD, author of Mindsight and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, explains that attention creates energy that can lead to neurological change. By paying attention in the right way, he says, we can potentially alter the way our brains work.
Take a look – it’s just three minutes.
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Have you ever helped a client change their brain through everyday habits? Please share your experience in the comments below.
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The Feldenkrais Method is based on Neuroplasticity & Moshe Feldenkrais was using those principles of Learning 40 years before the name was created! The FM is about Attention Awakening Awareness, so that we begin to sense our habitual ways of moving & give ourselves more options so we don’t get stuck in habits which often create pain. It is really amazing how differently we feel, think and move after a Functional Integration lesson or after an Awareness through Movement Class. The Learning then flows in to our daily life naturally.
I enjoyed listening to Dan Siegel. What appears to be missing is SENSORY INTEGRATION (SI). Sensory integration theory and treatment has been a specialty within the field of occupational therapy since 1970. The leading researcher is Dr. Lucy Miller in Denver. CO. See the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation’s website for research, links to other fields of sensory integration and how to find a SI clinic.
A body and mind needs sensory integration before working on other domains.
Looking forward to the event.
Thank you , really wonderful to hear Dan Siegel discuss neuroscience findings that affirms what we see happening in therapy with the “talking cure”.
As kids we were encouraged to change our way of brushing our teeth at least every other day, to listen to different music in each ear, to use our right and left hands interchangeably. It’s an easy and fun way to enhance flexibility in most situations.
It would be great to hear more about those domains he speaks of in this clip and that many yoga type practices have been integrating attention.
The brain as integral organ of entirety human functionality and existance indicates many cover and discover secrets, which one’s would to improve personal and global welfare. Among them are neuroscience achievement on brain change through our set of daily psycho-social performances.The same have great impact in our mental health as foundation of personal and community welfare. Therefore, it should to support the scientific researching on brain plasticity that moderate our life habits along interpersonal relations. It goes without saying, that some bad habits have negative activity on brain health with damaging effect on global well-being. As clinical psychiatris, I greet new scientific accomplishments on neuroscience.