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If you’re feeling panicked or stuck, don’t fight it or pretty soon you’ll be in over your head. If you feel like you’re stuck in a toxic relationship, you’re business is a mess, you’ve got too many choices on your plate and you can’t make sense of any of them or you’re overwhelmed and feeling totally out of control, do yourself a favor and take a breath.
Scientists used to believe that the brain became “hardwired” early in life and couldn’t change later on. Now researchers such as Dr. Michael Merzenich, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, say that the brain’s ability to change — its “plasticity” — is lifelong. The key is to keep up the brain’s machinery for learning.
Why do we fight even what we know to be in our own best interests? It turns out that one of the most important factors in helping people change habits and behaviors has to do with motivation. See what Dean Ornish did.
What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and sustained changes in the way you think and act? If you didn’t, you would die — a lot sooner than necessary. Could you change when change really mattered? When it mattered most?
You’re probably thinking yes, of course I would. But, you’d be deluding yourself.
That’s right. Scientific research has shown the odds are in fact 9 to 1 against you.
“If you keep doing what you’ve always done then you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.”
Have you ever noticed that you have a set point? You likely have a set point when it comes to your significant relationships, your weight, the money you earn and the level of risk you are willing to take when [...]
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