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A review by kimball_hansen
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind by Joe Dispenza
4.0
4.5 stars. This book explains the brain, nerves, and other related things very well. One of my favorite topics.
Finally, I can find the bonus PDF by going to tantor.com and typing on the book's name then click on PDF extra one. Enter access code Think to find the material. That's all neat.
This is the same narrator that did the [b:Breakfast with Buddha|736376|Breakfast with Buddha|Roland Merullo|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348360531l/736376._SY75_.jpg|2270861] series.
I want to see what my brain looks like and what sections are smaller or larger than a typical brain.
Notes:
We choose to remain in the same circumstances because we have become addicted to the emotional state they produce and the chemicals that arouse that state of being.
Our innate intelligence gives life to the body.
Next to sex and severe stress, digestion uses up the largest amount of the body's energy.
The cerebellum is the most densely packed area of grey matter in the brain. It's one of the few areas where brain cells are still reproduced after birth.
The reason why we can't remember many conscious things as a young child is because the hippocampus is not fully developed until after we are 4 years old.
At birth the baby can hear every word that is being said.
Knowledge and experience work together to form the best neural connections in our brain. Knowledge without experience is philosophy. And experience without knowledge is ignorance. The interplay between the two produces wisdom.
We use what we know to learn what we don't know.
Our routine thoughts are our most hardwired thoughts because we practice and attend to them so often. They form that basis of the personality.
"We have a lot in common. My neural net matches your neural net."
Has our life just become a series of unconscious decisions. A good example is looking at how you dry yourself off after a shower. You do it the same every.single.day.
Knowledge removes the fear of survival. Living in stress is living in survival.
Stress is a result of perceiving that we are no longer in control of our environment.
Animals aren't subject to anticipatory stress. They live in the moment.
How well can our immune system detect tumor cells and discard them when we are fighting an emergency elsewhere (like unnecessary stress) requiring all our energy?
Feelings are the past memories of experiences. Learning is making new memories that have new feelings. Most of us cannot think greater than how we feel. We spend more time feeling than learning.
Chapter 9 was really good about how some people are addicted to their self-loathing behaviors. There is a greater level of familiar comfort of being the victim than the discomfort of being a victim and the discomfort of not being one as well. We need to achieve mastery over ourselves. Do we cave in and let in the flood of long-term memories that define us and reaffirm our old self? Or do we stand fast in our commitment to avoid thoughts and feelings of victimization? Do we settle for immediate relief or can we willfully hold on to a greater vision of ourself in spite of what we are feeling?
Our life is a mirror of how we are feeling and how we are wired neurologically. In order to create any new experiences we must leave behind the thoughts, memories, and associations of the emotional past. To change our brain is to change the future.
What distinguishes us from all other species of animals is the size of frontal lobe relative to the rest of the neocortex. The frontal lobe makes up about 30-40% of the total volume of the neocortex.
Reality may exist wherever our mind is.
Faith operates when we hold a particular intention in our mind for an outcome, and we trust and believe in that outcome more than we believe what the external world is telling us. If so, faith can be defined as believing that the only real thing is thought independent of the circumstances. When we pray to a higher power, for change in our life aren't we just believing and making thought more powerful than our reality?
Half of all prison inmates have ADD.
Humans, unlike animals, have free will because we can make our choices beyond our basic primal instincts. But the author makes the case that we aren't really using our free will, just a prescripted list of options we have made in our mind.
One of the reasons diets don't work is because they don't get immediate feedback.
All we can ever know is what we perceive. What we perceive is based on what we experience, along with the tools of interpretation of what we inherited or employed time and time again.
The best way to get rid of old memories and past experiences is to create new memories and experiences.
Do we perceive reality based on our memories and habitually see from our prior experiences instead of our future possibilities?
Past memories are processed in the brain as emotions.
Finally, I can find the bonus PDF by going to tantor.com and typing on the book's name then click on PDF extra one. Enter access code Think to find the material. That's all neat.
This is the same narrator that did the [b:Breakfast with Buddha|736376|Breakfast with Buddha|Roland Merullo|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348360531l/736376._SY75_.jpg|2270861] series.
I want to see what my brain looks like and what sections are smaller or larger than a typical brain.
Notes:
We choose to remain in the same circumstances because we have become addicted to the emotional state they produce and the chemicals that arouse that state of being.
Our innate intelligence gives life to the body.
Next to sex and severe stress, digestion uses up the largest amount of the body's energy.
The cerebellum is the most densely packed area of grey matter in the brain. It's one of the few areas where brain cells are still reproduced after birth.
The reason why we can't remember many conscious things as a young child is because the hippocampus is not fully developed until after we are 4 years old.
At birth the baby can hear every word that is being said.
Knowledge and experience work together to form the best neural connections in our brain. Knowledge without experience is philosophy. And experience without knowledge is ignorance. The interplay between the two produces wisdom.
We use what we know to learn what we don't know.
Our routine thoughts are our most hardwired thoughts because we practice and attend to them so often. They form that basis of the personality.
"We have a lot in common. My neural net matches your neural net."
Has our life just become a series of unconscious decisions. A good example is looking at how you dry yourself off after a shower. You do it the same every.single.day.
Knowledge removes the fear of survival. Living in stress is living in survival.
Stress is a result of perceiving that we are no longer in control of our environment.
Animals aren't subject to anticipatory stress. They live in the moment.
How well can our immune system detect tumor cells and discard them when we are fighting an emergency elsewhere (like unnecessary stress) requiring all our energy?
Feelings are the past memories of experiences. Learning is making new memories that have new feelings. Most of us cannot think greater than how we feel. We spend more time feeling than learning.
Chapter 9 was really good about how some people are addicted to their self-loathing behaviors. There is a greater level of familiar comfort of being the victim than the discomfort of being a victim and the discomfort of not being one as well. We need to achieve mastery over ourselves. Do we cave in and let in the flood of long-term memories that define us and reaffirm our old self? Or do we stand fast in our commitment to avoid thoughts and feelings of victimization? Do we settle for immediate relief or can we willfully hold on to a greater vision of ourself in spite of what we are feeling?
Our life is a mirror of how we are feeling and how we are wired neurologically. In order to create any new experiences we must leave behind the thoughts, memories, and associations of the emotional past. To change our brain is to change the future.
What distinguishes us from all other species of animals is the size of frontal lobe relative to the rest of the neocortex. The frontal lobe makes up about 30-40% of the total volume of the neocortex.
Reality may exist wherever our mind is.
Faith operates when we hold a particular intention in our mind for an outcome, and we trust and believe in that outcome more than we believe what the external world is telling us. If so, faith can be defined as believing that the only real thing is thought independent of the circumstances. When we pray to a higher power, for change in our life aren't we just believing and making thought more powerful than our reality?
Half of all prison inmates have ADD.
Humans, unlike animals, have free will because we can make our choices beyond our basic primal instincts. But the author makes the case that we aren't really using our free will, just a prescripted list of options we have made in our mind.
One of the reasons diets don't work is because they don't get immediate feedback.
All we can ever know is what we perceive. What we perceive is based on what we experience, along with the tools of interpretation of what we inherited or employed time and time again.
The best way to get rid of old memories and past experiences is to create new memories and experiences.
Do we perceive reality based on our memories and habitually see from our prior experiences instead of our future possibilities?
Past memories are processed in the brain as emotions.