Aptos Psychologist: Arise with new Life and Hope and walk out of the ashes of deadly routines & negative thoughts.
Sunday, April 8th, 2012
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Can you literally change the structure of your brain? Yes.
Can you arise this Easter & Passover season to new life? Yes.
How can you know? Faith is a gift but PET scans can show you it is so.
Persons who were severely abused early have brains that ‘fire up’ a certain way. Often people who experience severe abuse in utero and early childhood get diagnosed with a variety of disorders including PTSD, ADHD and Depression.
Trauma gets etched into the brain and how it functions. But its not a forever thing and you can change your brain, how it functions and its actual anatomy.
With appropriate cognitive and behavioral therapy — and time — people’s brains learn fresh pathways and literally change how they ‘fire’ And as the brain’s function changes so changes the actual anatomy of your brain.
The brain is a very complex organ and its complexity does not end with its structural and chemical composition.
The brain is a dynamic organ and is in a constant state of change, governed by life’s experiences.
Every time we learn something new, form a memory, experience stress or disease, the biochemical structure of our brain changes at the neuronal level and this affects information flow.
There are many varieties of brain disorders that affect humans, including dementia, epilepsy, and other disorders that are more generally thought of as being “behavioral” rather than biological. (more…)
