Tricking the brain to get the most of it
The brain and nervous system are made up of many neurons. Each neuron has a job to do and a message to send; neuron cells repeatedly communicate with each other forming neural maps. Explains neuroplasticity therapist, Joey Remeneyi, in her book Rock Steady. From neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás' work, we know that those neural maps determine who we are; what we do and how we do it; and how we feel. Now, neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to reorganize neurons and form new neural maps. So, if we want to change something about us, we can!
The actress Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns) suffered from stuttering during her childhood and teen years. As a defensive mechanism, to speak fluently, she would do funny voices and accents. Interestingly, that's why she enrolls in acting: once, while doing one of her funny accents, a teacher overheard Emily and suggested she enrolled in a school play. Hesitant at the beginning, Emily finally accepted and eventually conquered stuttering beyond the stage.
It looks, from the neuroplasticity perspective, that Emily was able to avoid stuttering by tricking her brain into being someone else (using a different neural map), and eventually form a new neural map in which she could be herself but without the stuttering. Cool, ah? Make sure to keep exploring the possibilities of neuroplasticity in healing and wellbeing. In the meantime, enjoy Emily Blunt beautifully singing!
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