Lesson 3: Addiction And Physical Health - Slide 43
For Efficiency Your Brain Creates Tracks But They Can Be Changed
- The mental “tracks” that get laid down can lead to habits, good or bad
- If you develop poor posture, it becomes hard to correct
- If you develop good habits, they too become solidified
- It is possible once neural “tracks” or pathways have been laid down, to change them
- To create new habits, the old ones need to be blocked for a period of time while you develop new “mental” tracks
- Stop using an old track and gradually your brain will take over that pathway and rewrite it for a different activity
Notes:
Pg. 208-210, Doidge, Norman, “The Brain That Changes Itself,” Penguin Books, New York, 2007.
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