Neurohacking: rewiring your brain | Don Vaughn | TEDxUCLA 

Did weed improve anything? Can you be self conscious and smoke weed every once and a while. Just wondering because I feel like I have some of my best revelations after smoking.

@@chukamekkam4609 No, for me I can't smoke in moderation because it's addicting. Weed did help my creativity and insight as well but now I'm trying to find that same feeling on my own again. Those feelings already exist within you and weed can certainly help in those aspects but you should do what feels right! But for me it's not worth it because of the anxiety.

@@xanderson444 I agree with you, I am still smoking but I am in a progress to rewire my brain and changing habits. Weed didn’t make me creative but it made me feel comfortable when I feel uncomfortable of the thoughts in my brain but it was just a short term effect, now It is an habit and giving me only more anxiety. But habits can be changed, brain can be rewired

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Amanda Ashley that's a great story I'm currently struggling from Anxiety and OCD and have started the rigorous task of changing the way I engage with my thoughts and changing my subconscious believes It's not easy but I pray my persistence pays off Thanks for sharing a positive message ✌🏻

The challenge for all of us to give a new life to ourselves is to live daily 24/7 that which we wish to be for 9 months, at that time we would have become that new person. I believe it was a Socrates challenge.

Benny M If you persist it will pay off. If you don't end up sticking with it, you will still experience changes and benefits from your limited practice as well as simply knowing about the practice and how to recognize issues. If you meditate and just focus on your breath, not trying to change it, just observing it. Observe your chest rising and falling, the feeling of cool air entering your nostrils and warm air exiting your mouth or nostrils, your lungs filling, your belly inflating, notice anything at all that is being changed by the breathing process. You might also notice that at the end of each inhalation and exhalation, there is a span if time, seconds, where you have stopped breathing. Observe that time and it will begin to increase with practice. It is important though, for you not to try and put effort into breathing or mediation. It should be a time of observation. It shouldn't be strict unless you find peace in that, but you can meditate any time, place, sitting, laying down, morning night, while walking, even chores like dish washing. Once you practice and get used to it, it is possible to enter into a meditative state anywhere, loud or quiet, comfortable or not. Now, while you are observing your breaths and subtle body changes your mind will inevitably begin to wander. When you're beginning it happens more frequently. It's normal and it's important. You will catch yourself in thought and not even know for how long or why. It's like when you're reading a book and halfway down the page you realize you have no idea what's happening because your mind was off somewhere else. That happens during meditation but your mind is not lost somewhere else, it is caught within. When you catch this, it is your conscious mind recognizing your subconscious and what your subconscious mind is running through your head is very important. Why? Because those thoughts are the true influencers of our moods and habits and we almost never recognize them lurking or understand how much they are affecting us. Try, during your meditation, when you catch these obsessive subconscious thoughts running around, to simply recognize them, don't judge or overanalyze or dive deeper into them. Just say hello, make a little note that it was on your mind, and let go back to your breath. If it returns don't become frustrated, you can even pause an write it down. Another Zen technique is to speak to your emotion. When you recognize that you are becoming anxious, instead of wondering why and fixating on it, simply acknowledge it with compassion by saying "Hello anxiety. I recognize you. Don't worry, i will treat you well." You will experience immediate relief because your emotion is inseparable from "you", so the manner in which you react to and treat your feelings and concerns is the same as how you are treating yourself. I know this was long, i hope you had the chance and patience to read it and that i made some sense. It can be difficult to describe, but suffering from similar issues, I've tried anything and just about everything and meditation and breathing truly help in a way that is less like the band aid that medications can provide, and more of a life changing perspective and a chance at lasting peace. Just remember, your negative thoughts and behaviors are there for some reason. Rather than hide from them or fight them, try acknowledging them with compassion as you would a cut or scrape, and get closer to the negative things. They will eventually reveal their true causes and nature to you and by then you will be at peace with them and able to actually heal, adapt, and let go. I wish you the best of luck on this rough journey, but your attitude in your comment suggests you are already well on your way.

Very thoughtful of you, blessings.

Even that long term damage from drugs can be healed with neuroplasticity. Even heroine addicts were able to recover to unbelievable degree with neuroplasticity, after taking their drugs for years. But better not take them in the first place! If you catch a wrong antidepressant it might even kill you. I’d recommend the books: Anatomy of an Epidemic The brain that changes itself The power of the subconscious mind (the first half of it is actually only good). They will change your life.

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Hi Lisa - Just when I was thinking about my ""trolls" who became very destructive... then you say "neurohacking" (will read later). What a mess - was days without a phone (lost) and computer (hacked by 9 at least). Well I am back now and trying to get things working.

+Lisa Vanderburg Thank you, Lisa- it will be a big part of the future in treating mental disease.

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Yes it’s great but neurohacking could be used for many different bad things

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start do the physical activity like exercise or jog which increases heart rate daily....u will see difference in brain

Try the Wim Hof method!

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Cosmic and intelligent. (Cute too!) (Isn't that you on the Caduceus?) (The "Caduceus" is the medical symbol worn by most doctors.) It actually refers to electric eels, used throughout history to treat thousands of diseases.

Cosmic Serpent it's trumpers thinking that he's a"snowflake" because he's talking about something most knuckle draggers can't grasp.

I listened to what he was saying, and he's just re-packaging the old electric shock treatment.

@@moonlightlady9703 He's not using electrocution , he's using a "magnetic pulse" much more gentle and humane, not even the same.

That would be awesome! I have a recently acquired speech disability n reside in a rural area. I’m holding back on learning sign language becuz few, if any persons around me are able to converse in/ comprehend same. I have yet to find another device or technology that effectively supports my disability in most parts of my life. Affordability is another barrier to those devices that would help somewhat. It’s a whole new world, a new level of understanding disability (I have a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling) and a stark reality of how people judge others. I am often treated as if deaf- tho I communicate that I can hear. Or. I am treated as if I have an intellectual disability. It’s often frustrating; it inspires creativity in solving problems; the rest of me forgets that I am now ‘different’ from before…❤

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+Vivian Taylor 100Billion neurons can do amazing things!

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So glad you enjoyed it.

+Amy Irwin thanks Amy- there's the potential to help more; we just need to keep learning.

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Joel Pierson Along a similar method, I recently read a book written in “layman’s terms” of the brain, conscious and subconscious, vibrational energies related, etc. The book was written by Carolyn White, PhD and titled “Think It... Say It.... Be It”. For a shorter book of about 125 pages, it took longer than normal for me to read - this was because the information she presented in the book was succinct, without “filler, fluff or medical jargon”. Congrats on you stick technique! Anyone can learn at any age. PS: I thank my brain, organs, cells, _________, daily for working to keep my body healthy, and replenishing as needed. Are my words working? Is it a placebo effect? It doesn’t matter because I feel great✨

@@momking7616 I ordered the book. Thanks for the recommendation. I can't get enough of this. Check out Brain HQ. Exercises to rejuvenate neural pathways and create new specialized one's. I only have 15 to 25 years remaining on the planet. I want to make the most out of it. It's possible!

Joel Pierson I hope you enjoy the book! I’ll also take a look into your recommendation you noted. I’m willing to continue learning all I can while I’m still here as well.

Joel Pierson I found the website you suggested (Brainhq exercises), at first I thought it was a book as well. Fortunately I found it through the ‘magic’ of Google. Thanks again for sharing your personal story, and the name of the website.

Joel Pierson thank you for sharing your experience (strength and hope)! I am always so impressed with drummers/percussionists. Perhaps I will buy a pair of sticks! or attempt some rhythms on my djembe again! Also looking into DBT. At 56, am ready to launch some new pathways!

Yes there are tremendous advances happening in laboratories right now with TMS and optogenetics.

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Victor Hall, I find it a bit baffling that the visual cortex gets activated when a blind person feels the braille and that a deaf person's auditory cortex gets activated when they see sign languages! What is causing these areas of to be activated in these subjects?? If the relevant areas get activated, why is the brain not able to produce the respective sensory perceptions???

+William Seeback Thanks William

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TMS - Transcranial magnetic stimulation DBS - deep brain stimulation

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That’s absolutely amazing, I would be fascinated to know more about that extraordinary experience.

@@scottherf It was, thank you, that experience lives within me all the days of my life! What would you like to know?

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Keep getting referrals until you find a neurologist who can work with you well. I have extreme problems with colourants, my neurologist has gone through almost every available medication available, one *pharmacist* advised him to "try" a particular variant of one medication, and we worked with that for quite a while, for one condition, before realizing it was *the*aggravating factor in another condition we'd previously had under complete control, so he quickly switched right back. I'm very fortunate. I know me. He knows his field. We work well together. He also understands that although I'm a patient and not a doctor, he doesn't resent that I was on an accelerated path to that white coat, and do know more than most patients about *myself* and *my condition.* and respects both, isn't insulted by it at all, thank goodness! He actually treats me more like a colleague than a patient. Which is enormously helpful for both of us!

Just stop eating it.

addictionsstem from a deficiency, maybe neural, nutritional, chemical, educational, even emotional. Once the basis for it is found with a supporting lifestyle and network, success is achieved.

The way to crush sugar addiction is to stop encouraging it, thereby halting the insulin roller coaster that hijacks our minds by hijacking our bodies. Our bodies are a great barometer for this. If you eat a meal and it leaves you sated, calm, and with a steady supply of energy, eat more of that type of meal. If you eat something that leaves you hungry, craving, or moody, stay away from those kinds of foods. Over time, the sugar cravings will subside on their own. It happened for me about seven years ago and hasn't returned even when I consume sugar. And I'm definitely not strict with my diet!

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+erwinvb09 Great question! While both Braille and touch object recognition (TOR) require tactile sensation, they're processed differently, as Braille has semantic meaning behind it. It's true that some TOR studies have found low-level visual areas to be involved (www.neurology.org/content/52/7/1413.short), which as you point out seems intuitive when you construct a visual sense of a 3d object. However, the same is not true with blind people - although it does appear that reorganization of visual cortex is, as seems obvious, not just Braille-specific: "Whereas anterior regions showed preference for Braille, posterior regions (including V1) showed preference for verbal-memory and verb generation (which both require memory of verbal material). No such occipital activation was found in sighted subjects. This difference between the groups was mirrored by superior performance of the blind in various verbal-memory tasks." For a good review see www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304394005010499

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+Ethienne Racine Thanks Ethienne! The analogy is: an effective way to fix a highly complicated system that you don't understand (e.g. the brain), is to induce it to fix itself (TMS / plasticity / rewiring). Similarly with other highly-complicated problems ( interdependent social issues), you might have success with the same approach (recruiting those on the inside to manifest change, rather than legislate it from the outside).

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