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Words Can Change Your Brain and Person-First Language

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Words Can Change Your Brain and Person-First LanguageAs I continued to search for more thoughts, ideas and evidence on how words can change your brain, I came across this video, featuring professor Irv Bartikofsky.

You may not have an hour to watch, but if you’d like to take a look, here’s the video:

Most of his presentation is focused around disabled individuals and how words can affect them.

Here are a couple of interesting points from his talk:

  • It is easier to focus on our shortcomings or negativity over positivity. It is much more difficult to recognize, celebrate, and verbalize our strengths. This is because the brain is hardwired this way. It takes more time for the brain to respond to positive language. There is no “threat” associated with positive words.
  • Research says that we must verbalize/process positive words at least three times for our brain to respond (change) and seven times to negate a negative stimuli.

Is it really that hard for us to process positive words? Is it that much harder for us to negate negative words?

Andrew Newberg – How God Changes Your Brain

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Andrew Newberg - How God Changes Your BrainAndrew Newberg, as you might remember, is one of the authors of the book, Words Can Change Your Brain.

As I started digging a little deeper into how words can impact people, I came across a video in which Newberg is giving a talk.

You can take look by following this link.

Newberg says:

We realize that we can’t just look at people as biological. That seems to be the prevailing perspective on the medicine side. And more and more people are realizing that we are not just biological beings, but we are psychological, and social, and spiritual. And I think that being able to look [at] and explore all of these different dimensions of who we are as individuals and people is absolutely critical for us to understand ourselves; from the medical perspective to try to find the best ways of healing each other, and healing ourselves.

He goes on to talk about his studies connected to meditation and prayer, and how these practices affect the brain in the moment, as well as how that changes your brain if you keep doing it.

Although he doesn’t offer any definitive conclusions in this video, the general sentiment appears to be that there is a difference between the people who adopt spiritual practices and those who don’t.

Much More

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The science of Neurocardiology has inspired a new understanding of the human heart as part of a deeper and potentially game-changing new paradigm.

We now know that the heart is more than just an excellent biochemical pump. We know that the heart is largely comprised of the same cellular material as the human brain. We know that the there is a whole new set of mysteries in the role of the heart in our neural existence.

In this video, Frederick Tamagi explores the mysteries of the heart.