This surprisingly simple yet powerful trick will calm your monkey mind—anytime, anywhere, with little effort
Ever observed monkeys?
You would have noticed them jabbering non-stop, slinging between tree branches, jumping, scratching their body, combing the hair of other monkeys—and what not.
The chances of finding them staying still are very rare. Maybe, when you offer them bananas, they might calm down a bit. But soon they would become restless and fidgety.
Incidentally, you too have an in-built monkey.
A monkey that's invisble, and dictactes your actions, your feelings, your happiness, and ultimately your life.
Yes, we are talking about your mind. Always restless, incessantly chattering, wavering, and imagining things, the nature
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So how do you learn to silence the incessant and mostly non-sensical chatter of your monkey mind? How do you shatter the chain of thoughts that stop you from realising your true potential?
Before we present you the solution, understanding a little bit about neuroplasticity will do you good. Because first you need to believe that it's possible to tame your moneky mind, with a little trick.
Harnessing the power of neuroplasticity to change the way you respond to situations
Neuroplasticity is basically the ability of your brain to change its function or structure by forming new neural pathways in response to new habits, behaviours and information.
Harnessing its power allows you to refresh your thinking patterns, rewire your emotions, and respond differently to the same situations.
You can do this by simply incorporating a few new habits into your everyday life to train your mind.
Our free starter kit offers great insights on how you can tap into your neuroplasticity. If you still haven't accessed the information, check it out
Attention regulation- This component directly facilitates the awareness of our physiological state of the mind.
Your mind has now also become relaxed…. This relaxation feels so good…, you may want to enjoy
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Many of the things we do on a daily basis—stopping for coffee before work, reading the newspaper, taking a shower, exercising, watching TV, having a snack—are habits that have been so programmed in our neurological pathways that we don’t even know they exist. We move through our day like a plane on autopilot, automatically responding to the happenings of daily life based on the habits we’ve learned over time.
The concept of neuroplasticity has long been questioned. The term of “neuroplasticity” did not even come about until the mid-late 20th century. When the term “plastic” was used to describe the brain by a select few neuroscientists, they were laughed at and the term was never thought of as a description for the human brain. The human brain was seen as a closed circuit and one that once you had it, you definitely had it. Scientists thought the brain would not develop anymore past a certain point in your life. Norman Doidge brings the concept of neuroplasticity into reality in his book “The Brain that Changes Itself,” a book about the triumphs in the frontier of brain science.
Through his novel Minsdsight, Daniel J. Seigel, M.D., sheds light on the wonderfully rich sea within the minds of human beings. This sea is adorned with memories and dreams, thoughts and feelings, hopes and wishes, as well as sorrows, fears, and qualms. The turbulence caused by these sorrows, fears, and qualms have the power to create feelings of overwhelming sensations. In order to surmount this turbulence, Siegel has coined the term “mindsight” which is a “kind of focused attention that allows us to see the internal workings of our own minds” (ix). Siegel promotes mindsight by weaving the concepts of neuroplasticity and integration in Part I and Part II of his novel.
The Brain That Changes Itself is an informative and an educational book was written by Canadian Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, writer, and researcher Norman Doidge, who delivers a dramatic change message about the plasticity of the brain; how the brain changes itself. "The Brain That Changes Itself" is a chain of excellent case studies of individuals who have undergone a brain deficit of some kind and examines different types of brain deficits from simple sensory; auditory and visual to complex deficits; missing brain regions. The book recounts neuroscientific advances on how neuroplasticity does not limit the individual to predefined neural limitations and that our way of thinking, as well as the activities that we perform every day,
164). This non-invasive intervention uses electrodes that are placed on the scalp, to measure brain function (including brainwave pattens, auditory and visual feedback), which allows participants to observe their own brain function to enhance theor cognitive ability. For the most effective results participants were required complete a minimum of 1 to 2 sessions a week and for longer lasting improvements, at least 10 sessions a week. During each session, participants listened to sounds while playing a video game, they play the game by using only their brain. When their brain wave activity reaches the required criteria, they gain points (which acts as the reward in this appliction of operant conditioning). This type of brain training has shown to be effective as it has been used to treat mental illness, and improve cognitive ability, especially among older populations (Rabipour & Raz, 2012, p. 165).
This weeks reading discussed the brain and many complicated factors that go along with it. The brain has been an important area of study for decades and there are many different perspectives when it comes to how it works. Brain imaging, like what is discussed in the reading provided by Dr. Gordon Rose entitled "Postcards From the Brain" has shown us more information about how the brain works, but it has also led to many perspectives related to how consciousness works, and hard versus easy problems in the brain. It debates whether hard problems even exist. Furthermore, the reading provided, also describes language in a baby's brain, how mimicry works, and disorders throughout human development. These sections all involve slightly different perspectives when it comes to how our mind works.
Exercise: This not only has benefits for your health but also your mind. Exercise can be as simple as going for a five minute jog.
The human brain is utterly baffling. A small organ weighing merely three pounds as an adult has the ability to control and shape a human’s life. Without it there would be nothing. There are so many different functions… and with that there are so many things that can go horribly wrong. It is amazing the capacities and that it possesses and we do not even realize it. That is why studying neurology and working on the treatment of neurological disorders is so critically important. Through the examination of Huntington’s disease, Bell’s Palsy, and Aphasia, neurologists can work to better the human mind and cure the diseases that attack it, which will infinitely enhance the lives of humans and create a brighter future for us all.
This, I led me too a love of psychology. How wonderful was it that there was a whole science devoted just to that one mystical organ? Studying the brain, we can unlock the doors to human
researching the problem, and seemed to be stuck. At this point the monkey is clearly
In modern research scientists, educators, nutritionists, psychiatrists, and geneticists are constantly working together to find out how the mind-body connection affects learning. Scientists are researching how our ability to generate new brain cells affects our abilities to learn. Research has shown that our brain develops new brain cells every day. This continues until we die. According to Palombo-Weiss, R. (1997), “it's our ability to generate new brain cells that accounts for the brain's plasticity-its ability to continue to learn and update its database. Scientists generally agree that each human being has approximately 100 billion neurons, each of