The Brain Changes When a stressor hits the brain, circuits open up and vie to be activated. The brain chooses the circuit that the same signal has activated before and is most dominant. The wire is activated and it becomes stronger (“neurons that fire together wire together and become stronger”) and the ones that are not activated become weaker (“neurons that fire apart wire apart and become weaker”). The more you use your thinking brain to fire a wire, the stronger it becomes and the weaker the opposing ones become. We rewire our brains by experiences, not by insight, knowledge, planning or decision making. The brain changes when we’re actually walking the talk and practicing the techniques throughout the day. As we walk our talk, the brain begins to transform, day by day . . .
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