Rewire Your Brain
I’ve been fascinated by a book I’ve read recently called “The Brain that Changes Itself” by Norman Doidge 
and it is the cause of this blog.
The main premise of the book is that the connections in our brain are constantly changing, and can be strengthened and can be modified to compensate for deficiencies caused by strokes or injuries. One part that particularly jumped out at me is the suggestion that we can create new connections to help us deal with trauma.
If we think of the brain as a muscle, connections that are used repeatedly, strengthen, non use causes them to weaken.
If you have had a bad car accident, the next time you get in a car, you may feel fear and other similar emotions. If you continue to think these fearful thoughts whenever you get in a car, you will strengthen this association, make it stronger, and in some cases, it turns into a crippling fear which won’t allow you to get in a car at all.
If you recognize this association and decide to change it, you can do so by thinking about pleasurable or calming things when you get in a car. If you do this often enough, you will create a new connection that will allow you to get in cars again.
This procedure can also work in the reverse. If you are addicted to internet porn and you want to break the habit, associate some strong feeling of fear or despair or depression with the act of looking at the porn. If you can develop this connection strongly, you can be free of your addiction.
But be careful in choosing your new associations. In the porn example, you don’t want to associate all sex with negative emotions, as that would cause problems with your wife.
And I’m not certain whether you can completely fool your own brain if you don’t actually believe what you say. If you are trying to associate a negative feeling with your porn addiction but you still actually enjoy looking at the porn, I don’t think the new connection will take. You have to actually believe it for it to work.
The site url below makes sense to me.
http://www.reuniting.info/science/sex_in_the_brain
I believe (no, I know) that over the lifespan of a mammal their brain changes continuously.
Think about it (forget all you have been told, think) It starts before you are born, with
exploring the womb. If you are lucky to be with a twin you will kick, push, feel and hug your
sibling. If you are identical twins, you are both inside the same protective sac. Suppose you
are a boy. Then you will pull his ears and toes and all in between and you will suck your
brother, taste his skin. If you are a girl you will do the same things. Every action of your
brain seeks a reaction to which it responds. There are photos of a fetus sucking a thumb and
much more.
Forget about all the homophobic news and the 2000 year old dogma that compartmentalizes human
thinking. Imagine yourself inside your mother with an identicle twin. Just the two of you in a
protected zone , all your wants are satiated. You are free and your brother/ or sister is free.
Your senses develop, your organs develop, your brain explores through it’s every means, the
existence of a peer sentient life form. Most of us will never be able to experience this
nebulous existence after birth. Think about a womb with one occupant. Nothing to do: Right. No.
No. And No. Your brain will push, and kick measuring evry reaction. Your tiny fingers will
search out every available response, whether that be a sharp re-adjustment from your mother for
kicking her, through the realm of your environment. You will play touch your own ears and your
belly , and that big cord that nourishes yourself and you will touch your genitals. They are in
your sac. Everything in that sac is yours until you are born. Your other hand will do the same
things, and your brain begins to learn dexterity through it’s tools. Every response brings about
a new brain connection. Through touch and response right hand or left hand may dominate. Tiny
legs kick constantly. You know the fate of unused muscles. After six months in space, human
muscles loose three quarters of their ability, through inactivity. You are a tiny human life
form still in the protected zone of your mother and father programmed to survive by evolution.
You strive for knowledge by listening to your mother and father in another world. Finally you
join that world. The world you join depends on your parents. Your brain has roughly four years
to make itself a survivable human and approximately eight years to become a human. Beyond that
your sex hormones will kick in reprogramming your self universe again.
So you see, your brain must deal with the life of the organism. It does that by changing, just
as you read in the above article. A car accident can indeed create fear. Thinking about
pleasurabe things in association with the car over a period of time will rewire away the fear of
another accident. If you refer to the above url, they are saying that the brain is responding
to internal drugs created to help you survive.
Be advised: This info does not apply to the our lower mammalian brain. Yes: We have layers of brain functions from the evolution process. Functions governing reproduction are dealt with by the first layers of evolving brain tissue. How else , could we have got this far? That is why genital mutilation commonly called circumcision can unleash uncontrollable feelings anytime in life. Most likely, the puberty years will release logical processes to the reproductive evolutionary brain. These boys do not have normal brain functions, because the sensors are removed. They have no reason to live. Are you thinking of Taber, Alberta, Ecole Polytechnique, Virginia Tech? Removal of genital sensation removes an important brain function. This part of the brain cannot be rewired, no matter what the owner does.
Sincerely
natirta.
Also search CBC news for “Sensory phantoms: Dealing with the loss of a limb”.