It's Not Your Fault by Alex Howard

Author:Alex Howard [Alex Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2023-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

Retraining Our Nervous System

The good news is that the science of neuroplasticity clearly demonstrates that our behavioral patterns can be rewired.1,2 Although it can take some diligence, patience, and skill to train a new pattern, if we work to condition ourselves toward a new way of functioning, in time this can become our default.

Furthermore, the research on brain cells is fascinating. Although it’s true that as we age our neurons gradually atrophy, in fact, we have 10 times more brain capacity than was previously thought.3 And what’s most important is that we can create new neural pathways throughout our lives. Indeed, after Albert Einstein died, it was discovered that his parietal lobes (the top, back part of his brain) were 15 percent larger than average. Like a muscle, our brain responds to challenge.

When we actively work to change a behavioral pattern, initially it takes some effort and focus because we’re working against programming that might have been running for decades. Furthermore, the new pattern will feel unfamiliar and even uncomfortable. But in time, we’re building new neural pathways. To build these new pathways, we need to actively work to retrain our nervous system. Just as we do when developing a new skill, we go through a series of stages to install a new behavioral pattern. These are:

Unconscious incompetence – we don’t know what we don’t know: i.e., we don’t know that the pattern we want to change is a problem.

Conscious incompetence – we know what we don’t know, but we don’t have other options available.

Conscious competence – we have a new pattern available, but it takes conscious effort to do it.

Unconscious competence – the new pattern requires almost no conscious effort and can run unconsciously.

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