The Science of Neuroplasticity
​​When I'm coaching, I use the core competencies as described by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), along with the guidance from the guardians of your Akashic records, but I also use the power behind neuroplasticity.
Recent neuroscience research shows that our thoughts literally rewire our brain. This discovery in Western medicine in the past few decades supports what many ancient wisdom traditions knew all along—our thoughts, beliefs and outlook have profound physical implications that affect our entire being.
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For the past four hundred years, Western science touted the brain as fixed, unable to change once it was “hard wired” in adulthood. Scientists believed that the only way the human brain could change in adulthood was once it started to decline. This was considered inevitable—that every adult brain would eventually stop developing cells properly. Scientific thought deemed this slow death of adult brain cells something that could not be stopped, locked into the view that our brains would not find different ways to function or be able to change their structure.
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During the 20th century alternative modalities such as coaching challenged this fixed way of thinking about the brain and human capacity.
​People on the forefront of this wave believed in the possibilities available for changing our brains and our bodies and even our nature as humans.
Concurrently, many recent discoveries disprove this profound misunderstanding that our brain anatomy and structure are fixed after childhood and can’t be altered or improved.​
​In fact, scientists show that our brains are “plastic,” meaning that our brains have the ability to change— and it is our thoughts along with our movements that manifest this change.
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This new research gives the scientific underpinning for the reason that coaching and many self-help practices are so effective. This body of research shows that human nature, once considered locked and fixed, is much more fluid than originally thought and can be transformed by changing what we do and on how we focus our minds, thoughts and energy.
Rather than being fixed, we now know that brain anatomy can continue to grow and change throughout life, not only in childhood. The brain actually has the ability to find new ways of functioning and even alter its structure. ​
Rather than being hard wired, we have the power to grow our brains and through coaching, you will see this in real time. The coaching and transformational processes will assist you in rewiring your brain.
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“Synapses that fire together wire together,” simply means our thoughts literally reshape our brain. By choosing to integrate empowering beliefs so that we can focus on positive thoughts we are actually reshaping our brains and thus changing our physical reality.
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By learning new actions, new ways of being and new activities, you can sharpen your memories, change their outlook, strengthen healthy synapses, improve your mental function and grow empowering new brain circuits.
You can literally rewire your brains by changing beliefs and thoughts and in the process heal undesirable patterns.
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​Resources can be found at the links below on some of the books I've read, the brain retraining courses I've taken, scientific research, and the research I've been part of with the University of San Diego and Dr. Joe Dispenza.
Email jan@souljourneywithjan.com to find out how neuroplasticity is used in my coaching programs.