Brain training for success and happiness! Take control of your life.
Have you ever felt stuck in negative thoughts and emotions that hold you back from reaching your goals? Have you ever thought of having the power of how you feel about things that are happening in the external world? It is quite possible if we could realize the power of our brain to transform our life through brain training.
The human brain has incredible capacity to shape our experiences and perceptions. Neuroplasticity is a characteristic of our brain to rewire its function from how it previously functioned by systematic practice, repetition and intentional thinking. Harnessing it would be like unlocking your potential.
As humans, we are preoccupied by many maladaptive thinking patterns we accumulated from our past experiences, and this affects how we perceive external events and how we feel about it. Shifting the focus from uncontrollable events to what we think about the event is like getting the key to our emotions that we experience.
Brain training strategies for success and well-being
1. Cognitive Restructuring: Identifying distorted thinking, challenging them and replacing them with realistic, adaptive and constructive thoughts.
2. Behavioral activation and relaxation training: Prioritizing and increasing activities that bring pleasure and relaxation.
3. Mindfulness: Practicing the ' Being in the present moment '. It fosters awareness of how we feel and think nonjudgmentally.
4. Goal setting: Breaking down the goal into specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound. Don't forget to appreciate small achievements.
5. Assertiveness: A valuable skill where one expresses oneself confidently and respectfully at the same time maintaining healthy boundaries.
More than a destination, brain training is a journey. You embracing the process with persistence will transform your life and unlock the doorway to success and happiness.
Written By
Keerthi S Babu
Clinical Psychologist- RCI Licensed
Mindmaris Counsellors India Pvt Ltd
