The brain has the ability to create new neurons, and these new neural connections can be trained to achieve happiness. These are the habits you need to follow to keep your brain healthy and happy.
Let's start by remembering the only principle confirmed by all experts: the brain is very complicated and the researcher's drive is bent on presenting amazing findings associated with learning... that not always all scientists share.
However, as studies on our gray matter progress, the list of neuroscientists that claim that the brain can be trained to be more flexible, peaceful and optimistic increases.
Tricks to train your brain against negativity
After analyzing the recommendations of psychologists and wellness gurus and combining them with the latest research on neuroplasticity and our control to "sculpt" our personality, we have designed, with the help of scientists, a life plan summarized in seven basic points. With it, you'll shield your brain against negativity. Ready to take the path of happiness?
1. End the stress
Given the frantic daily activity, there is no time to process the huge amount of information we receive... Result?
We lose the ability to make leisurely decisions that allow us to focus on our goals. These quick and risky responses, according to evolutionary psychologists, allowed our prehistoric ancestors to survive the various threats of nature and are an innate impulse still lodged in our brains.
2. Exercise
Physical exercise reduces anxiety, stress and the risk of getting sick. It is believed to be due to the stream of endorphin hormones that cause a sense of well-being and have an analgesic effect on the body. By stimulating circulation, the blood level in the brain is increased, which is more nourished, receptive, flexible... It also improves your self-esteem.
3. Eliminate negative experiences
French neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik was one of the first to claim that happiness depends on our ability to rebuild ourselves in the face of adversity.
This skill was called "resilience" and it is the one that allows us to emerge even stronger from our traumas. It usually depends on the affective learning you get during the first few years of life, but adults can "metamorphose pain if given meaning" and therefore increase the ability to be happy, Cyrulnik argues.
4. Boost positive emotions
The habit of thinking positive can be reinforced. And negative patterns can be interrupted. And the more you practice it, the more neural pathways you'll create for your brain to do it automatically.
"One makes his own selection of the world: he sees what interests him," says José Ma Delgado-García, founder of the Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Seville.
5. Cultivate compassion and gratitude
The other's happiness is also your responsibility. We belong to a "tribe", we need to feel included and we fight suffering through help and mutual protection.
Surrounding ones with loved ones, doing something good for others, produces a sense of well-being by activating a neural circuit associated with pleasure and reward.
6. Meditate every day for at least 10 minutes
All your neurons are constantly active. Meditation is associated with a sense of tranquility (which is already beneficial), but there are studies that confirm that it also produces cognitive and psychological benefits.
Finally, Feed your mind
Diet also influences our mood. Lack of energy, discouragement, good humor, stability, concentration... are connected to what we ingest.
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