How to Cure Your Eating disorder with the power of neuroplasticity
By: Dr Irina Webster
What is neuroplasticity? Part1
1. What is neuroplasticity?
Definition: Neuroplasticity is ability of the brain to change.
– The changes in the brain occur according to how we live our life.
– By changing behaviour we are changing the structure of our brain.
– By changing thought pattern we are changing the structure of our brain.
What happens is that our behaviour depends on how our brain is structured. BUT! The structure of our brain is a constantly changing organism and the changes depend on how we behave on a day to day basis (or what we do on a daily basis).
· You can be cured from your eating disorder.
Because of the ability for the brain to change – you can be cured from your eating disorder if you follow the correct methods: this is the main point I want you to pick up from this report.
If you have ever heard someone say that eating disorders are not curable – then they were wrong.
· Everyone has this extraordinary ability to change their brain.
Nearly everyone can get extraordinary benefits using the neuroplasticity approach and some people will stop their disorder once and for all in a matter of months.
You see: every new behaviour we try brings a structural change in our brain; everything we do day to day makes a difference to our lives.
· What kind of changes occur when we change the behaviour?
Many of these changes are positive – this is when we have positive experiences, perform good constructive behaviours and do something useful that is of benefit to us or someone else.
· When neuroplasticity can go wrong?
But neuroplasticity isn’t all good news. Neuroplasticity can also make our brain more vulnerable to outside influences and produce rigid inflexible behaviours. Some examples of what happens when neuroplasticity goes wrong is starving yourself, binging, purging, taking laxatives, overexercising, counting calories and the like.
· Eating disorders are the result of when neuroplasticity goes wrong.
Initially you wanted to lose weight and you changed your behaviour to do so. But this new behaviour went too far and it has led to where you are now – suffering from an eating disorder.
Dr Norman Doidge MD calls this phenomenon “the plastic paradox” – it is when an initial good idea (like losing weight for example) turns into something bad (like developing an eating disorder). It is interesting to know that most of our stubborn habits and disorders are a result of our brain plasticity or “the plastic paradox”.
· Other negative examples of brain plasticity or “the plastic paradox”.
– OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorders) – people develop it as a coping mechanism for stress, family pressure, social pressure, physical or emotional abuse etc.
– Some personality disorders
– Practically all of our bad habits
– Many types of anxiety and depression
– Eating disorders, including binge eating and obesity.
– Many addictions
– Some types of ADD and ADHD
– Most of emotional problems (including nervous breakdown)
– Sleeping problems (insomnia)
– The occults
– And many others.
A few modern scientists even believe that some types of schizophrenia are the result of “the plastic paradox” and they advocate for a non-drug approach to schizophrenia treatment. Apparently, there are patients who get benefits from the treatment of schizophrenia without drugs. But this approach still remains under scrutiny.
· Examples of brain plasticity (neuroplasticity) when benefits people can get from it:
– Practically all good habits
– High achievements (especially by people who had a lower ability initially)
– Any successes in life (when you strive to succeed you positively change the structure of your brain).
– Curing diseases, conditions and disorders with the help of God, Universe, Mental Power or other things which are not recognized by medical science.
– “Miracle Cures” are mainly the result of deep subconscious beliefs that make structural changes in the brain and these brain changes affect the whole human body.
The list of neuroplasticity examples is endless. The main point to understand is how powerful it is. And how to use it to your own advantage and avoid its negative effects like the “plastic paradox”.
In my new book “Cure Your Eating Disorder: 5 Step Program to Change Your Brain. Neuroplasticity Approach.” I described everything I know about neuroplasticity and eating disorders and how exactly you can help yourself using neuroplasticity. You can get the book in CO-Op Book Store in Australia. Or on http://www.eating-disorders-books.com
Your next lesson “How neuroplasticity can help you?” will arrive tomorrow.
Source: Mom-Please-Help
