Here's a short excerpt from a documentary about the brain that we worked on years ago

(we did the sound effects)

I always liked it, not just because our sound effects were cool, and the synapse looks like something from Star Wars, but because it got me to think of the neural system very differently

Here what the neural pathways "look" like, and how our thoughts are actually physical things

and how synapses transmit the electrons from one gap to another

and some of the things that can change it, such as drug abuse, as in this example





but mostly, I am thinking about what happens when the same thoughts repeat over and over in the brain

pathways that get created to deliver and store these thoughts get stronger, making them more efficient

This can be good, new knowledge to store, as in my previous post about learning new piano pieces through repetition

or not good, as in pain pathways, created at first because of an injury, or a disease perhaps- but then reinforced over time through constant pain, and going into and remaining in prolonged adrenaline-fueled panic fight-or-flight mode-

(a state in which other body processes take a lower priority: digestion, muscle tissue repair, reproduction etc.)

all things that lead to physical change in the neural system, and we don't want that, because all those built-up pathways are ready to just keep delivering the pain messages!

So that's why I say, if you can, DON'T fight your own brain, tell it that it is thinking "wrong" or "bad thoughts" all that does is build and maintain new stress and anxiety pathways.

Instead try and teach your brain new songs, do new math problems, tell new jokes, play new games, expand the repertoire

Until those pain pathways decay from lack of use, and you build new ones to carry the new better messages yes

Dow