The fastest way to change your brain is through
learning something new. Modern neuroscience has clearly
proven that the true essence of learning actually IS a
physical change in the brain.

However creating changes in the brain through a
learning experience is not a science. For although
science can certainly tell us what learning is, and
what influences it - effectively applying this
knowledge remains a fine art!

The Emotional Aspect
On a strictly biological basis - it now appears that
the thinking (cognitive) abilities of the human brain
developed over time, building onto older areas of the
brain dedicated to emotion and feelings.

This brings your second brain (the massive “brain”
located in your gut) into the picture. Both brains feed
emotional “input” into your thinking process.

The result is that our mental functions are strongly
influenced by our emotions. In fact, emotion and
thought are actually physically entangled.

This is why you may tend to easily recall events that
are charged with intense emotion.

Passion Enters the Picture
The best way to change your brain is to learn something
new - whether knowledge or an action. But to be most
effective, that learning must evoke emotion.

Exterior sources of emotional motivation can sometimes
help. But the most powerful brain changes are made when
your learning is fueled by your own internal emotional
desire, or passion.

Such an intense desire is most easily generated when
you make an effort to learn something you have a
natural passion for. The act of learning (changing your
brain) then becomes rewarding in and of itself!

This is why it is so very important to identify your
passions -then build your life goals around them!

Building Neural Connections
An important thing to remember about brain expansion
(learning), is that you are building upon your past
beliefs, experiences and knowledge.

New information enters your brain through existing
networks of neurons (brain cells). Your existing
networks of prior knowledge actually form the
foundation upon which your new knowledge is built.

And so … you create brain changes (learn) by
attaching the new to the old.

As you learn new things, your neurons make new
connections. And as this occurs, existing neural
networks (interconnected neurons) are either
strengthened or weakened. But you are always building
upon what has gone before.

Remodeling Neural Networks
Sometimes old neural networks are so powerful they can
become a barrier to new knowledge. This can result in
carrying around childhood beliefs for a lifetime -
even when you logically know they’re no longer true for
you today.

Such beliefs obviously have strong neural networks that
can’t just be dismissed. And they will not just go away
on their own. But if you do have such undesired
childhood-based beliefs, there is a way to correct
them.

You will have to build something new onto those
networks.

The better you understand your prior experiences, the
more insight you’ll have into how to remodel these
limiting “barrier” networks. The art is to identify the
aspects of those networks that serve you - then begin
attach new learning onto those networks.

Using the S.N.A.P. Method
I developed the S.N.A.P. (Substitute Neural Association
Programming) self-discovery approach years ago based
upon my insight that much of what we consider “wrong”
is really just “incomplete.”

Let’s review the process: Modern neuroscience has shown
us that two key things are involved in changing neural
networks:

The first is simply practice. Neurons that fire often
tend to form both more, and stronger, connections. But
this is far more subtle than mere repetitive practice,
because neurons often stop firing if a stimulus turns
out to be routine.

Such “habituation” is what occurs when we stop hearing
the cars that go by our house during peak traffic
hours. So mere repetition alone will not build neural
change.

The second thing that helps neural networks gain
strength is emotion. Recent experiments show that rapid
brain changes are created by simply by triggering
neurons to dump our natural “emotion chemicals” on the
neurons involved in a new learning experience.

Your brain delivers these natural chemicals
(adrenaline, serotonin, and dopamine) to specific parts
of your brain - and frequent exposure to these
chemicals leads to rapid change in your neural
networks.

The essence of the S.N.A.P. method of brain change can
be summarized as follows:

Start by building an active awareness of what you wish
to change.

Focus on adding new insights onto old neural networks
to make them more complete, based upon your current
reality.

Repeat this focus often (practice).

Be sure to interject positive emotion during your
practice to speed the reprogramming process. [Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler]

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