How to Focus to Change Your Brain

By redirecting our attention, we can literally change our brains, creating more gray matter in the very areas that help us learn, help us perform, and allow us to manifest. As the brain adapts, it makes alterations that can produce dramatic and positive effects on everything from Parkinson’s disease to chronic pain to attention deficit hyperactivit

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Neuroplasticity allows your brain to rewire and convert something deliberate (and strainful) into something reflexive (and automatic).

Neuroplasticity in the adult brain is gated by neuro-modulators. Epinephrine creating alertness and attention, asidocoline highlighting what happens during the alertness for later plasticity and strengthening the neurons making them more likely to fire later.

Neuroplasticity only occurs after focused attention during rest or sleep. Diffused thinking is also consolidating the memory and skill pathways (no duration, path and outcome).

In Young brains the process happens automatically:1. Epinephrine to increase alterness2. Asidocoline to increase focus. Ability to focus on the error margin between what you did and what your goal was.3. Dopamine once you decrease your errors to speed up plasticity.

As a result of learning, the brain changes. Neuroplasticity does not tell us how to learn better or what pedagogical techniques work best for effective learning. To do that, you need to go one step further — to cognitive science or psychology. To strengthen recall, it is essential to present complementary visual and linguistic information together ... See more

Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich agrees. Merzenich, described as the world’s leading researcher on brain plasticity, explains that new functional circuits in the brain can only be achieved through repetition. His description of the brain is of something which alters itself with attention and exercise, almost like a separate, living entity. It is al

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