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You can encourage neuroplasticity in your own life in two primary ways: internally and externally. Mindfulness is one internal way to do that. When you are mindful, you’re intentionally guiding your brain activity, awareness, and attention. Directing your attention mindfully can calm an anxious brain jumping around from one worrisome thought to another. Bringing your attention back into the present alters the part of your brain in control. It immediately stops your brain from ruminating about painful memories or panicking about the future.
Your subconscious brain largely determines your happiness, baseline mood, how you respond to the world, interact in relationships, and think of and talk to yourself. The subconscious material is primarily made up of implicit memories from your childhood and past — mostly wounds and painful experiences. And this subconscious chatter carves the default brain patterns which largely determine your happiness and can contribute to psychological disorders like anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
In order to change your baseline subconscious chatter, you have to change your brain’s default pattern of operation. Luckily, you already have everything you need to do that. Research shows self-directed neuroplasticity can make positive changes in your brain and mental health. And you can sculpt your brain with mindfulness.
