Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Brain

“Next time you catch yourself falling into one of these patterns, remind yourself that you don’t have to believe everything you think. Recognize a thought as a cognitive distortion and challenge it instead.” D Alban

DontBelieveEverythingYouThinkI recently saw a bumper sticker that said “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” and it got me thinking… about thinking.

The average person has around 50,000 thoughts per day and in most people they are predominantly negative. (1)

How Thoughts Create Your Brain

Your thoughts are more than fleeting moments created by your brain. In many ways, your thoughts are your brain.

Every thought creates a neural connection. Think a thought often enough and the neural connection will get strong, particularly if there is an emotional attachment to it. Conversely, if a memory has no use or is rarely stimulated, eventually those neural connections will wither away from disuse.

Thoughts also change your brain by stimulating the production of brain chemicals which can change the structure and function of your brain.

A good example is what happens to your brain under stress. When a situation you perceive as stressful occurs, it increases your level of the stress hormone cortisol. Prolonged exposure to cortisol literally excites your brain cells to death, particularly in the hippocampus, the seat of memory. Continue reading

Quintessence

Announcement: We will offer an Open House for group Meditation with online streaming audios on the ES website on 12/21/2012 that will begin at 11:12 am PST. From our ES community to yours, we wish all of our Light Family, many loving wishes for an incredibly blessed transition time as we countdown the end of this cycle together. Please connect with us in group meditation this day to celebrate the transition of humanity at the end of this cycle and join with our group’s blessings!

Cosmic AetheDear ES Family, At this time we have multiple stellar bodies in direct alignment with Earth, as well as the Earth core and Sun preparing to align directly with the Galactic Center. This Galactic Center is the Heart of all Universal creation, where birth, death, resurrection and transformation happen at the end of each evolution cycle.

During the In-breath cycle of Creation, the Ascension timeline, our true God parent returns to claim us. The Father God principle, (The Yod or Finger of God) is pushing us to align with the Mother’s heart-womb to benevolently force our inner and outer transformation. Continue reading