The New Brain

Over the last decade, neuroscience has given us a whole new view on who we are and how we operate. The old views of the mind have been overturned, opening up a whole new field of possibilities to realise our potential.

The primary discoveries are the principles of Neurogenesis, Neuroplasticity, and Pattern Recognition.

Contrary to the medical belief of the 20th century, the mind changes its own wiring on a constant basis. In a very real sense, we become what we think and do – it has been observed that our attitudes, thoughts, and values physically modify the brain. What we use grows stronger and what we don’t fades away – brain cells are created or pruned back, just like muscles in the body. Improving and adapting strength and ability to suit our tasks is how we tailor ourselves to our environment. This growth of new brain cells is called Neurogenesis.

Just like most other systems of the body, the more new brain cells you create, the stronger your ability to create them becomes. Change makes change easier – conversely if you never change, change becomes increasingly difficult. Not only is it common sense, it’s neuroscience.

Our brains not only physically grows to suit habitual tasks, but also changes in function as we learn and experience. This is called Neuroplasticity – our ability to change and adapt to new circumstances, and overcome old patterns of thought, at any age. In this way a transient thought is a feeling, if it lingers it’s a mood, if it comes back often it’s a habit, if it sets in it becomes a trait.

We order our world right from birth, by recognising patterns in our environment. Pattern Recognition is the primary role of the Cerebral Cortex. The mind and body communicates to itself in frequency patterns, we sense and feel the same way. This pattern recognition ability can be seen in action with new and surprisingly simple devices such as cochlea implants for the deaf and artificial eyes for the blind (the book ‘The Brain that Changes Itself’ in the info section covers this in detail). These devices are not wonders themselves, the wonder is in how the brain wires itself to any input, from any source.

We work with these basic functional principles. There is a lot of technology to achieve it, but what we do is very simple. We provide the tool your brain needs to right itself. Your brain’s own Pattern Recognition can decode the real-time brain activity information and use its inherent neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, and natural tendency towards balance to right itself.