{"id":102,"date":"2014-06-29T00:20:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T00:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2014-10-18T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:28:33","slug":"your-experiences-change-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Your experiences change your brain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s happening constantly, every moment of your life. \u00a0This is a wonderful thing. \u00a0We are learning every moment of our lives!! WooHoo! \u00a0There&#8217;s one drawback to that&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;our brains are biased to learn more from negative experiences than positive ones. But wait&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.we can learn to learn more from positive experiences than the brain&#8217;s natural tendency. \u00a0Thanks to folks studying that stuff!!!! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/\">Dr. Rick Hanson<\/a> is one of those folks.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Hanson PhD, neuropsychologist, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?ca=97a5fc11-d401-4727-9b37-663f2679a78a&amp;c=46c894c0-cf5f-11e3-816f-d4ae5292c3f3&amp;ch=482d7bf0-cf5f-11e3-8175-d4ae5292c3f3\/\" target=\"_blank\">way<\/a> to help you effect your brain&#8217;s natural tendency of holding on to negative experiences and habituate the holding on of positive ones.\u00a0 &#8220;Be mindful of the good,&#8221;\u00a0 he says.\u00a0 Hang on to it and savor it.\u00a0 This helps you begin to see things differently.\u00a0 Our brains have evolved to protect us.\u00a0 The way it has done that is to identify negative things and avoid them.\u00a0 In that light the brain is tuned in to negativity.\u00a0 But, we can turn that around by learning how to savor the positive experiences and grow them.\u00a0 The essence of The Feldenkrais Method(R) is a way to practice this idea.\u00a0 With the method we slow down, back up, and sense the pleasantries of what we are doing and try to see how we can find more.\u00a0 FUN!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s happening constantly, every moment of your life. \u00a0This is a wonderful thing. \u00a0We are learning every moment of our lives!! WooHoo! \u00a0There&#8217;s one drawback to that&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;our brains are biased to learn more from negative experiences than positive ones. But wait&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.we can learn to learn more from positive experiences than the brain&#8217;s natural tendency. \u00a0Thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fmb4-1E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}