Neuroplasticity and the Empath’s Brain

Enlightened Empaths

Samantha Fey and Denise Correll

Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we’re discussing a bit of the brain chemistry that explains neuroplasticity but we also give some tips and techniques on how to rebuild those neural pathway for a higher quality of life.

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change and adapt due to experience. As empaths, many of us have had situations that may have left long term residual impact from trauma, being extremely sensitive, and also with needing to learn how to navigate a world that can feel very harsh at times.

The importance of neuroplasticity can’t be overstated: It means that it is possible to change dysfunctional patterns of thinking and behaving and to develop new mindsets, new memories, new skills, and new abilities. Neurogenesis is the creation of new brain cells and certain parts of the brain are capable of generating new cells throughout adult life.

Neurogenesis pretty much says that as new cells are created, they build stronger connections and have a higher likelihood of developing new neural pathways compared to older neurons. The ability of the brain to change and grow in response to experience helps people recover and overcome from severe stress and adversity–to be resilient; to bend without breaking. Depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder are often characteristic of disrupted neuroplasticity. This leads to getting stuck in neural ruts of negative thinking/feeling/behaving or fear-based memories.

We hope this information is helpful and you find some time this week to bring in some novelty or new experiences to rebuild some of your own neural pathways!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened
0:05.2	empathy where we discuss explore and connect with fellow
0:11.0	empathy healers, intuitive and seekers. and
0:15.0	connect with fellow Empaths, Healers, Intuitive and Seekers.
0:18.0	Welcome back to another episode of Enlightened Empaths.
0:22.0	Really glad that you're with us today and this is almost a follow-up to the show we did on the five attachment styles. We're going to talk about neuroplasticity today. And it's a really it's a little bit of a
0:35.4	heady topic, no pun intended since it's on brain chemistry, but it is a really deep
0:41.9	dive into how you can always change the way you're programmed.
0:46.4	And neuroplasticity is the brain's capacity to continue to grow and evolve in response to life experiences. So this plasticity gives the capacity to be shaped,
0:58.5	molded, altered. Neuroplasticity is the ability for the brain to adapt or change over time by creating new neurons and building new networks.
1:09.0	And scientists used to believe the brain stopped growing after childhood, but current research shows that the brain is able to continue growing and changing throughout the lifespan, refining synaptic connections and shifting functions to different regions of the brain.
1:24.9	That's up from psychology today.
1:27.8	This is a really kind of a hot topic right now because I think so many of us that may have had traumatic or difficult or unhealthy
1:36.5	relationships or were so highly sensitive knowing that there's a way that this can be transformed into healthier patterns is, for me it's very hopeful.
1:49.0	It is very helpful. And like you said last week we were talking about these attachment
1:53.4	styles and how you can heal them and change them and alter them and now we're going to
1:58.3	offer a little bit more geeky science research to back that up and show that there's always hope there's always
2:06.6	possibility for change. Dr. Rebecca Robbins probably summarizes it best she says all of your life events are stored inside your brain in your vast
2:17.3	subconscious and used as a resource for you in your life. The mind mechanics of rewiring neurons, plasticity, and memory
2:25.6	reconciliation help you overcome old unpleasant memories, old patterns of
2:30.9	belief or trauma. By updating what you hold within you upgrade your
2:35.8	references. I love that I love that because it's it's putting us in the driver's
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