Your Brain has maps do you know that!!!!!

Your Brain Has Maps That Can Be Changed
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Sarah_Jons]Sarah Jons

Gerald Edelman is an American Biologist Nobel Prize winner and one of the theories he is noted for involves consciousness. Edelman argues that the mind and consciousness are biological processes that arise from complex cellular processes within the brain.

Edelman suggest that every memory, every piece of data, idea, habit, though, is actually made up of a set of connections among neurons, like a map of connecting roadways in our brain. Each of these maps can involve up to 50,000 neurons.

We create maps for everything. This includes maps for sight, sound, language, face, ideas and memories that we remember, whether consciously or not. We sometimes form temporary maps. For example when driving a car, we do not hold in our mind ever building we drive past on our way to work. But after taking that journey even once, we will have formed a basic map of the route.

After driving this route many times, we will easily remember it; with enough repetitions, we will follow it even when we are not consciously attending to it. The map of the buildings becomes lost, while the map of the route becomes hardwired into the brain. There are maps of maps and the map of maps, and so forth. This application of maps is why revision is so key to learning processes. The more familiar you are with something, the easier you will be able to recall it.

So maps are our internal representations of the way the external world works for us. These enable us to understand and interact with that world. The maps that convey information that is used the most, get further hardwired into our brain and become more likely to be activated in the future.

You may wonder why this is so important and the relevance with hypnotherapy. In practical terms this theory supports so much of the work that is done in my application of cognitive hypnotherapy. My clients come to see me with a variety of problems that are their very own constructed maps. There are individual smoking maps, fear or phobia maps, maps of anxiety, maps of compulsive behaviours, maps of eating disorders and so on.

During the history take which is normally the first session of meeting at my, I map out my clients problem. The longer the client has had the problem the more hardwired the problem is in the brain. Just take a moment to think of a young child. How many very young children have phobias? Phobias and fears are developed over time. The more you get exposed to the stimulus the more hardwired the problem becomes.

The good news is that these problems maps can be simply deconstructed by using many of the hypnotherapy techniques I have at my disposal. You can quickly learn a new map of behaviour that replaces any unwanted old maps of behaviours. Do it enough and then that becomes hardwired. Or another way is to change the memory of the map in some way, if you remove part of the map it won't be the same map anymore.

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