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    The document discusses neuroplasticity and how mindfulness can help reshape neural pathways in the brain. It uses the analogy of foot traffic wearing down grass to form a path to represent how neurons that fire together wire together, strengthening connections. Repeated mindfulness practice can help create healthier pathways and rewire the brain to reduce automatic negative responses like anxiety or stress. The document also includes an exercise about folding paper to demonstrate how well-traveled neural pathways are easier to use.

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    The document discusses neuroplasticity and how mindfulness can help reshape neural pathways in the brain. It uses the analogy of foot traffic wearing down grass to form a path to represent how neurons that fire together wire together, strengthening connections. Repeated mindfulness practice can help create healthier pathways and rewire the brain to reduce automatic negative responses like anxiety or stress. The document also includes an exercise about folding paper to demonstrate how well-traveled neural pathways are easier to use.

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    The document discusses neuroplasticity and how mindfulness can help reshape neural pathways in the brain. It uses the analogy of foot traffic wearing down grass to form a path to represent how neurons that fire together wire together, strengthening connections. Repeated mindfulness practice can help create healthier pathways and rewire the brain to reduce automatic negative responses like anxiety or stress. The document also includes an exercise about folding paper to demonstrate how well-traveled neural pathways are easier to use.

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    Exercicios Especiais Mindfullness _ Compreenso

    WHAT IS NEUROPLASTICITY AND WHY DO WE CARE? PATHS IN THE GRASS Close


    your eyes and picture a lawn of green grass. Now imagine that someone
    walks across the grass diagonally from one corner of the lawn to the
    opposite corner. Notice how the grass changes. Perhaps the grass is a
    bit matted down where they walked. Now imagine lots of people walking
    across the grass following the same path. After a while, notice that
    some of the grass is dying where so many footsteps have fallen.
    Imagine that this process continues until there is a path worn in the
    lawn where there is no longer any grassjust a dirt path worn smooth
    from all the foot traffic. This is like the process of
    neuroplasticity in the brain. According to Hebbs axiom, neurons
    that fire together wire together (Hebb, 2009), and dendrites increase
    in size and efficiency when something is repeated over and over. So,
    like the path worn in the grass, the neuronal pathway gets stronger
    and stronger with repetition. Mindfulness practice is an effective
    way to create more healthy pathways in the brain. Now imagine the
    lawn with the path across it. Notice what happens to it over time
    when no one walks on it anymore. The grass slowly starts to grow
    where the path was until at some point there is no longer a path at
    all. Mindfulness practice can help rewire the brain so it no longer
    automatically responds with anxiety, or anger, or fear, or feeling
    stressed. Mindfulness helps to decrease the negative pathways in the
    brain. HANDOUT 2-10-2 PAPER FOLDING EXERCISE Ask clients to fold a
    piece of paper, then fold it again, and then again. Have them
    unfold it and fold it again where it was already folded. Ask them
    if refolding is faster and easier than folding in the first place.
    Relate this to moving information along a well-traveled path of
    neurons. Discuss whether it is easier for your brain to think
    something new or the same thought. Ask them if it is easier to
    learn something new or do something you have done before. TOOLS FOR
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