Changing Your Brain to get results

The other day one of my clients was talking about how her husband with struggling with some issues that he could not seem to get his mind wrapped around. She did not know whether NLP could help him. Out of this came the following:

There are some similarities between our brain and the computer. In fact, you could call the brain an advanced, very complicated computer. The computer in many ways is a direct model of the brain. As we advance as a species, someone was bound to figure it out. Scientists have figured out a lot of other things, why not the brain.

The source code that the operating system is written in is like the unconscious. You are not aware of the source code of the operating system. It is there in the background and allows the operating system and all programs on the operating system to function. What you see on the screen is the conscious mind. You see the results of the operating system and programs on the screen. Your mind, in order to understand experience codes, categorizes and organizes data in the form of pictures, sounds, sensations, tastes and smells. You input information into the computer with a keyboard. Your senses are the key board of your experiences. You do not see, hear or feel with your eyes, ears and skin; you see, hear, feel with your brain. It is your brain that takes the impulses from the senses and translates them into information. For instance, if we see a dog and our brain recognizes a dog (there is a program for “dog recognition”), we recognize a dog, and it is categorized and stored in the databases where we store all dogs. If we know what dogs are, then, that also further enhances the categorization. However, if we do not have a program to recognize dogs, then we can become confused: not knowing where to put the data, we simply delete the dog as if we had never seen it, we put the data in a similar category we do recognized (a distortion) such as cats because they have four legs and fur. If we have been bitten by a dog, then the brain could (not always) generalize that all dogs bite.

If you try to open something on your computer and you do not have a program for that data, then the computer gives you an error message. My computer asks me if I want to go and find the program to open it. Our brains do not usually do that. It makes instant decisions about what to do with the information by deleting it, distorting it or generalizing it.

The programs organize the date to produce certain results. Your computer also stores information on a hard drive. Your brain stores vast amounts of information. Your computer runs programs written in scripts, in binary code. Your brain runs scripts also. Those scripts determine whether or not the imputed information can be used – no program….no data…..no results.

Think back, some of you, to the days of early PC’s. Compared to the capacity, programs, and speed of new PC’s, the older PC’s are slow and limited. They did not have the configuration and ability to process data like the newer ones. Your brain is similar in that depending on when your brain was “programmed”, it may not have the neuro-capacity” that the newer minds have and therefore do not have the brain power to resolve issues as easily as someone whose mind has a larger capacity. Older minds get set in their ways. They lose some of their neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to forge new connections, to blaze new paths through the cortex, even to assume new roles. Learning a new skill actually changes the structure and function of the brain, even into old age.

It all has to do with the wiring and firing. The older brain develops “grooves” in processing. Once a particular way of doing something or looking at something becomes a habit, it becomes harder to change. The plasticity of the brain competes. The stronger the plasticity in a direction, the less likely another pathway is going to become prominent. This is why when you try to learn a new language, the mother tongue usually wins out. The more a person engages developing plasticity, the more neuro connections, the faster the speed, the more options and choices, greater the skills, easier the problem solved. This is your brain on NLP.

NLP has processes that help people develop neuroplasticity and increase neuro connections in the brain. Even simple anchoring (learned in Level 1) produces new synapses between neurons. The result is that a person has more information available to solve problems, learn, communicate, make decisions. Developing neuroplasticity also slows the aging process and memory loss that appears as people age. They are more aware of what they see, hear and feel in a conversation and have more choices with which to response than the average untrained person. This translates into higher quality relationships, better jobs, more money, less stress, and happier, more confident people. Humm…. We could use more of those these days.

A unique and fascinating new study was released this year by Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Stanford University, researching the effects of belief on cognitive performance.

The results: children who believed that intelligence was malleable and could be improved were much more likely to perform well in school. Children who believed intelligence was something set in stone - a genetic gift from birth that never changes - did not perform as well.

To test this, Dweck separated one hundred 7th grade students into 2 equal groups. All students had suffering math scores. One group learned good studying habits, the other learned about the plasticity of the brain, and how the brain can change; new neural connections are formed and intelligence can actually be increased.

At the end of the semester, the children who had the crash course in neuroscience ended up performing better than those who learned study skills! This is because their beliefs about intelligence had changed. http://www.mindupdate.com/?cat=18

Things that you can do to enhance your neuroplasticity: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=40

• Take NLP classes (the obvious)
• Exercise your mind – puzzles and games that teach you to resyntax information, such as logic, crossword, math puzzles, games in which you need to recognize patterns (Klotski or Tangrams) http://www.psychtests.com/mindgames/index.html
• Anchoring – a simple NLP technique that add choices and resources to a habitual thought, feeling or behavior

Basic Technique: Can be done with another person or on oneself.

1. Recall an experience with an associated intense state.
2. Float into the experience with eyes closed, looking out your eyes in your body. See what you saw, hear what your heard, feel what you felt.
4. Watch for cues in eye lids, breathing, lip size, facial muscles.
5. While reliving the recalled situation, touch your knee or knuckle at the peak of the experience.
6. Release anchor. Do separator state (Open eyes, erase picture).
7. Test anchor by re-triggering anchor point and note return of physiology to previous anchored experience.
8. Add a resource by finding a more appropriate feeling or response in another unrelated experience.
9. Do the same process as step 2-7.
10. Touch both places at the same time.
11. Imagine a time in the future using the new resource in a similar experience to the original experience.

• Making lists – instead of writing down lists of things to remember, use memory pegs to associate items. Here is a link to the use of memory pegs http://health.howstuffworks.com/how-to-improve-your-memory8.htm
• Read
Try these:
The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD
The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for Life by Twyla Tharp
Change Your Mind – Keep the Change – Steve Andreas
NLP: The New Technology for Achievement

• Learn new things; take up a new hobby. Put yourself at the low end of the learning curve.

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Between you and me.....Not sure that you have been aware that I have had a habit of chewing on cigars since 1992.  All day, every day.  Every NLP class break, I went to the car to chew on my cigar.  I quit for 6 weeks in 1998 and went back to it after someone gave me one at a golf tournament.  I smoked from 1982 - 1992 and quit smoking overnight, but for 25 years, I had one in my mouth virtually all of my waking hours.

After neuro-shift study group last week on Tuesday, I did notice a change, but it had nothing to do with my cigar habit.  Thursday, I was going to the cigar shop and said to myself, "you know what, you don't need these anymore".  Since then, I have had one in the car to chew on, and still do, but only then.  I not only don't need it, I am very conscious that when I reach for it, I don't want it.  I'm sure that by the end of this week, I will be totally done.

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