What about the emotional effects of your thought? We know that your thoughts can influence the neurotransmitters in your brain. Optimism is linked to better immunity to illness while depressive thinking may be linked to reduced immunity. So, if you throw the covers over your head, and that triggers other thoughts such as "I'm tired," "I can't get up," or "Life is hard," complex interactions in your brain may send signals to other parts of your body.
On the other hand, if you get out of bed and think, "This isn't so bad," "I'm getting going now," or "Today is going to be a great day," the pathways and signals that your neurons send will obviously be different. We don't yet know all the intricacies of these processes; however, suffice it to say that your thoughts matter. Your brain is constantly receiving signals, whether from the outside environment in terms of perceptions or memories from your past. It then activates different patterns through waves in the brain through billions of synapses.
In this way, your thoughts grow more complex as they interact with other content produced by your brain functions. It goes without saying that your thoughts are linked to your emotions in a bidirectional way. How many times have you experienced a shot of adrenaline after having a fearful thought?
Have you ever gone to a job interview or on a first date and felt the same? Whenever you have a thought, there is a corresponding chemical reaction in your mind and body as a result. This is important to realize because it means that what you think can affect how you feel. And by the same token, if you are feeling poorly, you can change that by changing how you think. If that sounds a little unusual, go back to the premise that thoughts are physical entities in your brain and not spontaneous outside forces that don't connect with your body.
If you accept the scientific view that your thoughts are physical parts of your brain and that changing your thoughts can have an effect on your body, then you've just developed a powerful weapon.
But wait a minute: if our thoughts are always just reactions to something, how can we take control and change them? Of course, your thoughts don't arise out of a vacuum. For example, you are reading this article and gaining new ideas from it that you can potentially put to use in changing your thoughts. What this means is that if you want to start changing your thoughts, you need to be aware of the triggers of your thoughts and also the patterns of thoughts that you have in response to those triggers.
The next time you are lying in bed thinking, "I don't want to get up," ask yourself what triggered that thought. Get very clear about the triggers of your thoughts and you will have the power to change your emotions and your health. In the case of the person not wanting to get out of bed, it could be that the alarm clock triggered the thought.
You've got a mental association between the alarm clock and the thought "I don't want to get out of bed. You've worn a mental groove in your brain, so to speak, that instantly connects that trigger with that thought.
So if you want to change that reaction, you either need to change the trigger or break the association with that thought. One way to do this would be to force yourself to think a different thought each morning for 30 days until that becomes the new reaction to the trigger. For example, you could force yourself to think, "I love getting up" every day for 30 days. See how that works. If that thought is just a little too unrealistic, maybe try something like, "It's not so bad getting up.
Once I get going I'm glad I got up early. You could also change the sound of your alarm so that you're less likely to have that old reaction the old thought to the old alarm.
Once you get the hang of this, you can apply it in all areas of your life! The notion that we think with the body — the startling conclusion of a field called embodied cognition — flies in the face of long-standing views. Early cognitive psychologists defined thought as an activity that resides in the brain: Sensory data come in from eyes and ears, fingers and funny bone, and the mind turns these signals into disembodied representations that it manipulates in what we call thinking.
But dozens of studies over the past decade challenge that view, suggesting instead that our thoughts are inextricably linked to physical experience. In one study, Lee and a colleague exposed volunteers to different odors. When they did, they found that getting a whiff of a fishy odor evoked feelings of suspicion; likewise, when research participants were exposed to another person behaving suspiciously, they were better able to detect a fishy scent. The range of findings demonstrating embodied cognition is impressive.
A small sampling: Looking upward nudges people to call to mind others who are more powerful, while looking down prompts thoughts of people we outrank.
People judge a petition to be more consequential if it is handed to them on a heavy clipboard rather than a lightweight one.
Baseball players with high batting averages perceive the ball as bigger than poorer hitters. Hmm, weird. Pass the guacamole. In a subsequent memory test, performed in a brain scanner, volunteers indicated whether various birds were associated with one of the symbols. Interestingly, the entorhinal cortex was activated, in much the same way as it is during navigation, providing a coordinate system for our thoughts.
Our train of thought can be considered a path though the spaces of our thoughts, along different mental dimensions," Jacob Bellmund, the first author of the publication, explains. Using existing maps of cognitive spaces humans can anticipate how similar something new is to something they already know by putting it in relation to existing dimensions. If they've already experienced tigers, lions, or panthers, but have never seen a leopard, we would place the leopard in a similar position as the other big cats in our cognitive space.
Based on our knowledge about the concept 'big cat', already stored in a mental map, we can adequately react to the encounter with the leopard. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Science News. A Theory of Human Thinking In their proposal, Doeller and his team combine individual threads of evidence to form a theory of human thinking.
Mapping New Experience "These processes are especially useful for making inferences about new objects or situations, even if we have never experienced them," the neuroscientist continues. ScienceDaily, 8 November This is interesting, as this means that shifting from negative to positive thoughts or trying to change an attitude is possible.
Monitoring a thought or an attitude will cause a change in the firing pattern of neurons, which eventually leads to a new behavior. Several nutrients contribute to brain function and chemicals.
This means that if your diet is deficient in essential nutrients like lean meat, fruits and vegetables, fish and nuts, your neurons will fire abnormally, and your thoughts may not be at their best. Hobbies: Basketball, Irish dance, art, softball.
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