Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 3, Issue - 7, 1 January 2019 | Page 18

Thursday, 20 December 2018
Despite the great strides made toward understanding the brain, the
knowledge of precisely how the brain transforms 10 watts of electrical
power into memories, thoughts, feelings, emotions, habits, behaviors,
attitudes and a whole host of other functions still eludes researchers in the
field. However, much is known today about the brain that were mysteries
only a generation ago.
We know that the average brain contains between 10 to 15 billion
cells called neurons. A typical neuron may make over ten thousand
electrical connections, called synapses, with other cells. The total number
of synapses that take place within the brain is probably on the order of 10
trillion. In any one second of brain activity there are hundreds of billions of
impulses flashing through the brain.
The neurons communicate with each other through neural pathways which
connect one part of the brain with another and usually consist of bundles of
elongated, myelin-insulated neurons, known collectively as white matter.
Neural pathways serve to connect relatively distant areas of the brain, such
as the limbic system, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, cerebellum
and reticular activating system, compared to the local communication of
gray matter, such as the cerebral cortex.
However, all these parts interact with one another. Neural pathways
are like superhighways (freeways to you Californians) of nerve cells that
transmit messages. As a thought, in the form of electrical impulse, travels
over the superhighway many times, the pathway becomes more and more
solid, and that forms a brain pathway. Thus habits, beliefs, behaviors,
attitudes and paradigms become established – sometimes to our detriment.
Knowing the cause and resolving the effects of it are two entirely
different things. While having their genesis in a past life or lives,
maladaptive behavior, habits, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and paradigms,
even after the Past Life causative factors are expiated, may continue to
exert an influence - albeit in most cases not as strongly as they were prior
to Past Life therapy. And this is because of the neural pathways established
in the physical brain.
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