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How Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Changes Your Brain
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europlasticity is one of the most exciting and inspiring areas of brain science which, in simple terms, means that our wonderful human brain has the ability to change and evolve. It has the ability to grow and survive, even following significant brain trauma; where large areas of the brain have been damaged, it can regenerate itself to a point.
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it flowed without any effort at all, becoming automatic … Wow!
In the past, scientists believed that our brains were fixed; however, recent advances in neuroscience show that our brain is adaptable, a bit like plasticine, and it has the ability to change throughout our whole life.
It takes time to create those new pathways and just the same happens with our behaviours, negative or positive, and our decisions. Our brain is continually taking in new information and building new pathways and it doesn’t care if it’s a good or a bad habit, it’s learning and re-wiring all the time.
So, just for example, say we are learning a new skill such as learning to drive. Remember your first lesson? Well, for me, there was such a lot going on - the steering wheel, gearstick, clutch, navigating the busy roads, the car seemed so big and my new instructor! There was too much to take in, just overwhelming, it seemed so impossible to do! Bringing the whole thing together seemed like much of a jumble to me. Yet, after one or two lessons, it started to come together, bit by bit, simultaneously, until eventually
Paths become stronger and stronger, more resilient too, and our behaviours become moulded to how we have programmed them to be. Imagine pouring water down a brick wall. The water flows down grooves in the brickwork which it has carved out over many rainy days. The good news is that we really can make neuroplasticity work in our favour to achieve something new and make positive changes in our life, even if this ‘something new’ is
“Our brain is continually taking in new information and building new pathways”
just to go to the gym more often, make a cup of tea rather than open a bottle of wine, or simply be kinder to ourselves or others. The second piece of good news is that it is never too late to do so. Whilst children and teens have an enviously ‘plastic’ brain, we can still influence the connectivity of our grey matter well into late adulthood. In fact, my oldest client, in her late eighties, surprised herself by discovering that she’s great at oil painting! Not only that, but she CAN be assertive and selfconfident, much to the amusement of her family and friends! So, neuroplasticity can help to create an optimal environment for breaking down old unhelpful pathways and building new helpful ones. We can even generate new brain cells … if clients are up for the challenge! With intent, repetition, practice, and time for nature to do its physiological thing, it really is possible to rewire your brain!
If you would like to book an appointment or find out more about hypnotherapy, contact Christine on: 0780 9690 964 or contact@beardwoodhypnotherapy.co.uk
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AUGUST 2020
