Mark Waldman, who I
mentioned in my previous article, carries out brain scan research at Penn University
New York
Now, some ideas are good for your brain, and some are not. Money – or the fear
of losing money – brain scans show this affecting the brain structure and
function within seconds.
How can a single idea, word or thought
change your brain? It can and it does. All big ideas arise first in your
frontal lobes. This information is sent to your thalamus – a grand central “station” – which creates
for you what you think is going on “out there” in the outside world.
The thalamus may send the information to your occipital lobes – where you get
to create a vision of what you want to create or achieve in the world. So your
vision, and your big idea, can come together. But what's really important is that
the information is sent to your parietal lobes (at the rear of your brain), and
this creates an artificial construction of YOU – who you think you are does not
exist in the real world. You are a fantasy. This part creates who you “are” in
your mind.
If you begin to meditate and obsess on your
big idea, on your dream, then you begin to align your (created) self, with your
dream, goal and vision.
By the way, if dream is positive, it will
stimulate parts of your brain which are enormously healthy – even add years to
your life. Negative or destructive thoughts – like revenge or war – will stimulate
harmful reverse affects in your brain. When you grumble, complain and get frustrated
– you are killing yourself.
If you meditate on your big idea, for about
45 mins, the most unusual thing begins to happen,. Your parietal lobe activity
falls off, and you actually begin to “disappear”; you are losing your “ego”. All
that remains is your big idea; it floods your brain and in fact becomes your
reality! It becomes all that exists to you. Can you get the power of this?
If you do this type of meditation regularly,
within 8 wks the thalamus changes 10% of its structure. You actually cannot see
reality the same way any more. So will you meditate on a positive set of ideas?
Find you big idea and meditate on it. Negative
thoughts stimulate the amygdala – which is Latin for almond (its shape) - and
it literally is the part of your brain that makes you go nuts. Research shows
that if you look at a list of negative words, you get worse. Shown the word “No”
for one second, will release more stress neuro chemicals than can possibly be
good for you. When we see a positive word – hardly anything happens. Why?
Because we are wired for threats, and this is no threat. That is why we have to
OBSESS – meditate - on our positive ideas
for a very long time to get the benefits.
So what are big ideas? What is the biggest
in your life? Here is the question to discover it – and it s not “what makes
you happy?” It’s about values. Values are those ideas. Concepts, desires that
are important to you, and which you would get energised to satisfy. It’s simply this – but close your eyes first,
and begin to change your brain.
Breathe in deeply, stretch, move around a
bit in your chair, and …. Yawwwwn. 43 documented studies that show it is one of
the eight best ways to exercise your brain.
Now think about something, or someone you
deeply love. Then ask yourself this question: “What is my deepest, innermost
value?” - the single phrase or word. This is your most important value which
will change your world. It will change your life. When you share your deepest
belief, you will find connections to the fundamentals of life itself. It will
more peace into your heart, and if you bring them into your speech, with a
smile and a soft gaze in your eyes, as you speak slowly for just short periods
of time, you will change the listener. It’s called neuro-resonance. It is the
key to getting along with others.
You can watch Mark in
his lecture for the highly respected TED series at http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxConejo-Mark-Robert-Waldman
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