Our brains have the amazing ability to change themselves.
This is called neuroplasticity.
Our brains are not fixed structures.
Rather, they are dynamic systems that are constantly changing and
evolving in response to the environment.
In fact, research done in the last decade has shown that the brain is much
more malleable and responsive to change than previously thought.
Neuroplasticity can occur at different levels of the brain, from the level of
individual neurons to the level of entire brain regions.
One of the primary features of neuroplasticity is that it is
activity-dependent.
This means that the changes in the brain are driven by experiences and
activities.
For example, if a person engages in a particular activity repeatedly, such as
learning to play a musical instrument or practising a new language, the
the brain will adapt to these experiences and develop new neural connections
that support these activities.
Neuroplasticity also has important implications for understanding the
relationship between the mind and the brain.
If the brain can change and adapt in response to
experiences, this means that our minds also can change
and adapt.
But what do we mean when we say “mind”?
What is a mind?
The mind is nothing but thoughts.
There is no mind without thoughts.
Therefore, because of the neuroplasticity of brains, we can radically change
our thought patterns, or our minds.
We can change our thought patterns to have happier or more beneficial
minds.
But even more than this.
We can also develop the capacity to slow or even stop thought completely
by the activity of focusing attention on the emptiness or empty silence
between thoughts.
Many religious and mystical traditions, including many schools of
Buddhism, teach that it is this capacity to rest in the emptiness between
thought that ultimately reveals the very nature of reality, and the reality of
who we truly are.
#buddhism #neuroscience #awakening #buddha #spirituality
Script: Matt Mackane
Edit: Medo
Voiceover: Andrea Giordani
Music: Epidemic Music x Original
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