So do you think that you can change the circuits in your brain by thinking about
it? Do you? So I did this experiment in
little ways back. They took these people who never played the piano before. ou
guys with me? And they separated them into four categories. And they said - listen,
we're gonna scan your brains before you learn this, these exercises and then
we're gonna scan your brain after. And all you have to do is show up for two
hours a day in practice for two weeks okay and just follow the instructions
and we're gonna hook your brain up to these sophisticated scans and we're
gonna see what happens before and after so they got with these people and they
said okay first group here's the scales and here's the courts or one-handed
exercises practice them over and over again keep playing them so they played
every single day two hours a day for two weeks they scan the brains before they
scan the brains after after two weeks guess what happened whole new set of
circuits lit up in their brain that never lit up before that makes sense you
learn something new learning is making new connections repeating it over and
over again is sustaining or maintaining those connections and that's called
memory so they memorize what they were doing it by physically practicing or
personalizing what they learned make sense
standards simple it took the second group of people and they said listen we
want you to play two hours a day for two weeks we're scan your brain before and
after but you know we're gonna do we're not gonna tell you how to play anything
you just come and do whatever you want play whatever you want so at the end of
two weeks guess what happened to them nothing you know why because they
couldn't remember what they had learned the day before and they couldn't
remember what they played the day before and they they had no structure they got
no instruction and no knowledge to be able to apply it to make some steady
circuits still with me make sense took the third group of people they said
listen don't even show up don't even create your day same thing
nothing happens we'll ask you four people they said
listen we want you to come two hours a day for two weeks we're going to show
you these one-handed exercises but instead of you physically playing the
piano we want you to mentally rehearse over and over again those exercises we
know you're gonna get tired so we'll nudge you and we'll keep you awake but
you practice for two hours a day and you keep repeating those at the end of two
weeks that we scan the brain and guess what happened same area of the brain lit
up as if they were actually playing the scales now you know what that means
they grew new circuits in their brain just by thinking about it just by
thinking just by rehearsing now every time we learn something new we make new
circuits in the brain if you learn anything new learning is making a new
connection in the brain new neurological connection memory is maintaining or
sustaining those connections keeping them alive and the only way that we
maintain and sustain connections in the brain is by repetition repetition allows
the neurons to develop a long-term relationship so these people every
single day made it the most important thing they gave up their social
engagements they gave up television they said I'm gonna rehearse I'm gonna
mentally rehearse the greatest ideal of myself every single day and as long as I
keep doing it every day what's gonna happen to those circuits they're gonna
light up and become the more sustainable circuits to act as a platform of who
they will become in the future by making sense now the last thing that they had
in common which I find the most important is that during this process of
rehearsal while they were sitting down rehearsing who they were going to be
just like the piano players rehearsing over and over again
they had long moments where they lost track of time and space in other words
they became so involved with what they were doing that when they opened their
eyes or they lifted up their eye masks or when they turned the lights on in the
room it was two hours later and it only seemed like five minutes they were so
involved with what they were doing that they lost the feedback of the body they
lost the feedback from the environment and they lost track of time and the
moment that that happens geniuses that's the moment we walk through the door to
the quantum field and that is the moment by the way according to neuroscience
that we repattern and rewire the brain and by the way
guess what part of the brain is the most active when we do that front below
because isn't it true that we're making thought more real than anything else in
that moment and because the frontal lobe is the orchestra leader it has its
connections to the rest of the brain and what it does is it quiets down the
Association centers the thinking centers it quiets down the motor centers you
don't want to move you could still it quiets down the emotional centers and
the only thing that's real is the thought and when we capture that thought
in the frontal lobe when the frontal lobe captures it as we hold that thought
there what happens is the rest of the neurons in the brain will pattern and
make circuits to capture that thought and reflect it as a footprint of
whatever we're focusing on does that make sense
because it's as if we were experiencing it and when we make new circuits in our
brain by the way do you think that will perceive things that maybe already
existed but we never really saw do you think that's possible do you think that
the person who lives practicing being a victim every day gets good at it turn
that on automatically is it natural in second nature and how will they perceive
their world based on how they're wired according to the law of the victims a
victim would you agree everything is a reason to suffer would you accept that
simple quantum law right so if you made new circuits in your brain do you think
you may process or see things in your reality different because now you're
wired to see them do you accept that so if I put up a picture of a Monet on the
screen up here and I said to you isn't that a beautiful picture of what monet
painted you guys would all say oh yeah that's beautiful and then I took the
picture down and I said did you guys know anything about Monet you know that
he spent 44 years of his life teaching himself how to see things differently
and he thought that every person was too busy to stop and pay attention to light
and he loved light he loved the light first thing in the morning and he loved
the light at sunset at the twilight hour and he said that the golden light of the
twilight hour and the brightness and the opalescent light in the morning actually
colored reality and that he said if I can capture this in my paintings and
make things bright enough and capture light maybe people will stop and look
and see what they never pay attention to and then he said you know the wisteria
in the bridge were one in the same I can't paint them separate they're the
same to me and as he got older he developed cataracts and the cataracts
were so thick that when he looked at the light it diffused the patterns so he
began to more and more pain exactly what he was seeing
and the doctors urged him to have an operation to do something to help him
you know what he said I worked too hard to see this way
now if I took that painting and I put it back up on the screen would you see it
differently would you agree that because you learn new knowledge and new
information you made new circuits to perceive what was already there but you
never paid attention to reality is the same way how about the wine connoisseur
a 1992 Cabernet Sauvignon silver oak Alexander Valley could bottle of wine
you take that and give it to the wine connoisseur and he lets it breathe he
knows about tannins he knows about alcohol content he knows about oaky
flavors he knows about grapes he knows about age he knows about aroma and
sweetness you think his brain is wired to perceive what wine is all about did
he pay attention through knowledge long enough period of time to wire his brain
to perceive subtleties and won so that he would enjoy every single taste in
that wine you take the person who drinks the screw-off tops you give him the 92
Cabernet what happens I don't taste any difference because he's not wired to do
you understand reality is the same way the reason that the movie is so great is
because now you're paying attention to things that you normally never paid
attention to but do they exist all the time if the brain process is 400 billion
bits of information every second is it possible that we're missing some of
reality is it true so now science used to say that the brain was hardwired
meaning that it was you know wired so intently from genetics that you're gonna
be born a certain way and then you're gonna turn out just like your parents
and that's the end of the story so it's a predetermined life and you know get
what you can in the process and now what they're saying is what's we lied it's
not true you see the brain is hardwired there's certain definite areas that are
hardwired because the brain human brain has been around for hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of years you want to believe it or not it's been
around for millennium and this process of learning has developed the brain now
when the sperm in the egg come together in utero right around the third month of
life the cells start to differentiate and we start to make neurons and they
start migrating north up to the skull and then around the sixth month of life
we start making these connections a neuron looks like an oak tree but it's
not big like an oak tree it's tiny and it's flexible I cook spaghetti and it's
leafless and it's 3-dimensional and we're neurons connect with other neurons
that's called a memory something that we've learned that's information being
exchanged now the third month of life we make about 8,000 neurons per minute at
the sixth month of life those neurons start developed connect you know making
connections and we make about four million connections a second all the way
through the time were two years old so the brain becomes this three-dimensional
tapestry of neurological connections and what's being transferred to the fetus is
knowledge pre-programmed connections so that you can turn your head towards a
sound and you know what to do when you're when you're sad and there's and
you know what to do in case there's a thread or stress from your environment
so we have certain pre-wired patterns that have been shaped and developed from
eons of trial and error and one brain human brain looking next to another
human brain looks almost exactly the same as a matter of fact if I took two
brains and unscrewed your head and placed them side-by-side you wouldn't
really tell who was who because the same folds and convolutions are similar from
brain to brain that's like your hand everybody's got a hand right that
roughly looks the same but then those intricate connections and patterns that
form those connections and circuits that form then become the fingerprints of who
we are and we get specific traits propensity zin characteristics that are
inherent from our parents and by the way those are the things that they've
learned those are the things that they've
experienced those are the propensity zand traits and emotional tendencies so
you may inherit your mother's insecurity in your father's anger you may have your
father's intelligence and your mother's creativity but they're gonna give you
contribute their best in other words they're gonna give the fetus they're
gonna create a new being and they're gonna give to them what they've
practiced the most you understand now that's only by the way 50% of who we are
one likes that but it's good it's 50% that's it
the other 50% is up to us to begin to make our own circuits in our own
connections now there's only two ways that we make connections in the brain
only two ways the first way you make connections in the brain is from
knowledge that we gain information philosophy every time you learn
something semantically new every time you learn a new bit of information you
made a new connection you guys make any connections today so learning is making
those connections so it would be like if I handed you a book on how to ride a
bicycle and I said read the whole entire book cuz I'm gonna test you in two weeks
know how to change a flat tire know how to tighten the spokes know how to shift
gears know how to brake learn about this mystical thing called balance and I'm
gonna test you in two weeks and you would read that information and study it
and repeat it till you did what repeated it enough till it was wired now it's
being stored as a long-term memory so that's philosophy right you're basically
studying someone else's experience and you are literally wiring your brain so
that you can have that experience would you agree which by the way is the second
way we make connections in the brain is through experience experience is what
enriches the brain now listen to this every time we experience something every
time we experience something new when we're experiencing it all of our five
senses are immersed in the process what we're seeing
smelling and tasting and feeling and hearing all of our five senses are
picking up information from the environment and sending a rush of data
back to the brain and through these five pathways this rush of data through five
different ways causes neurons in the brain to fire and sting and when they do
that they release these chemicals called neurotransmitters that make us feel a
certain way so the end product of an experience is called an emotion or a
feeling still with me so then if an emotion or a feeling is the end product
of an experience then if we keep experiencing the same emotions every day
what does that tell us we're not having any new quantum law apply to that as a
matter of fact if you keep your mind on those same emotions by the law of the
quantum you know quantum realm basically we're putting our attention on something
that we already know from the past and what do we get more the same so when we
live by emotional propensity and emotional addictions what we're really
saying is my observation is on something that's familiar to me based on the past
and I will keep observing it to keep it intact so that my future looks just like
my past