Scientific Explanation Of Spiritual Practices

This includes our THOUGHTS.

When we think, on a conscious or a subconscious level, physical changes are happening. Little electrical charges are firing through our neurones through to our bodies and impacting the cells and tissues. Thoughts (and in particular their  offshoot – emotions) cause physical changes in our internal matter as well as our external surroundings.

It has been proven by science that long term thinking patterns can lead to changes within the brain.

Your Hypothalamus is the manager of your brain and the emotional hub of the body. It is the master controller of all of your hormones, your immune system, and your brain chemistry.  All the signals from your body route through your thalamus to your cerebral cortex, where you do all your thinking. Similarly, all of your thoughtsroute through your thalamus before affecting other parts of your body.

Your thoughts will cause physical changes in the neuronal pathways within the hypothalamus and other aspects of your brain (known as Neuroplasticity). This leads to cycles of thinking and habitual thought patterns.

Serotonin is a hormone responsible for feeling good and calm – A ‘happy’ chemical. Not having enough of this neurotransmitter in the body can lead to symptoms such as moodiness, irritability and negative thinking as well as physical changes in the brain. If you regularly feel good, your brain will change to release more of these feel good chemicals. If you regularly feel bad, your brain will adapt to give you less feel good chemicals.

                                        Your thoughts are VERY powerful  

- Not only do they have the ability to physically change your body and the electromagnetic field around it…They also affect the electromagnetic fields of those who around you 

Scientific Research

Dr. Norman Doidge  states plainly that the brain is a dynamic organ and therefore has the capacity to rewire itself and form new neural pathways. Regular ‘practice’ of positive thinking will enhance your brain’s capacity to feel good.

Dr. Fredrickson while doing research on Positive thinking,found that this changes the very fundamental rhythms of the heart, so that we see more heart rate variability. Positive thinking can lead to changes in gene expression in the immune system and  increases in day to day levels of positive emotions predict physiological changes and psychological practical changes like resilience, social connection and so on.