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    1. The document discusses how to rewire your brain by changing behaviors and building new neural pathways, similar to how roads and highways are built from repeated use over time. 2. It provides steps to set a new healthier destination by writing it down clearly, recognizing triggers back to old behaviors, and creating a plan to avoid triggers and reward new behaviors instead. 3. The steps also involve making decisions based on goals, recognizing success, and learning from mistakes without giving up in order to continue building the new "superhighway" in the brain.

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    1. The document discusses how to rewire your brain by changing behaviors and building new neural pathways, similar to how roads and highways are built from repeated use over time. 2. It provides steps to set a new healthier destination by writing it down clearly, recognizing triggers back to old behaviors, and creating a plan to avoid triggers and reward new behaviors instead. 3. The steps also involve making decisions based on goals, recognizing success, and learning from mistakes without giving up in order to continue building the new "superhighway" in the brain.

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    1. The document discusses how to rewire your brain by changing behaviors and building new neural pathways, similar to how roads and highways are built from repeated use over time. 2. It provides steps to set a new healthier destination by writing it down clearly, recognizing triggers back to old behaviors, and creating a plan to avoid triggers and reward new behaviors instead. 3. The steps also involve making decisions based on goals, recognizing success, and learning from mistakes without giving up in order to continue building the new "superhighway" in the brain.

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    CHANGE YOUR BRAIN—CHANGE YOUR LIFE

    A Healthier You Series For more information contact Wendy Rawlings 253-661-0181

    www.WendyRawlings.com

    How to Rewire Your Brain


    Our brains learn by building pathways from a
    stimulus to a response. To better understand Set a New Destination
    the process, think of how highways are built. 1. Write it down, make it clear
    Many started out as cow paths that were and realistic
    followed enough times that a discernible trail
    was created. As people with horses and wagons Recognize what triggers you back to
    started to take the trail it widened and became the old, destructive path
    easier to follow. After a while it became a paved 1. Write them down together
    one-lane road that grew to a two-lane road. The with what you can do to
    most frequently used roads were widened, avoid them
    2. Create a plan for what you
    graded and became Superhighways.
    will do if you get triggered
    The same principles are at work in our brains Look for alternate behaviors and
    when we acquire new knowledge and behaviors. rewards that support your plan
    The first time we learn or try something new, 1. Instead of food, connect to
    our thinking brains are hard at work guiding us people, music, reading,
    through the process. As we repeat the new walking, service, etc.
    thing, we need to think about it less and less as 2. Remember the reasons you
    our mental cow path becomes a paved two-lane want to be healthy
    road. If we continue to do the new thing, our 3. Do the emergency plan from
    brain builds a superhighway by widening the step 2 when needed
    neuron pathways and paving them with myelin
    Make a decision based on your
    in order to reduce the time between stimulus highest goals
    and response. 1. Recognize yourself for
    successful choices
    When we quit using pathways, they are still 2. If you’re not successful,
    there but become weaker. As we change our evaluate what you learned
    lifestyle we being the dual process of building and what you will do
    new pathways to a healthier destination and differently next time
    weakening old, destructive pathways—rewiring 3. Never give up
    our brain.

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