Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

by Joe Dispenza

1. By learning new information (semantic memories) and having new experiences (episodic memories), we make new synaptic connections and evolve our brain’s hardware. 2. We learn by association. We use what we already know to understand the unknowns we encounter. When we fire neurological networks that are already developed from our knowledge and experience, that part of the brain is now receptive to making new synaptic connections for even greater understanding. This is Hebb’s “fire together, wire together” model of learning. 3. We remember by repetition. When we put our full attention on what we are learning and practice it repeatedly, firing these synaptic connections time and time again, neurotrophic chemicals are released that cause the synapses between neurons to form long-term relationships. “Neurons that repeatedly fire together, wire together more strongly.” 4. We have hardware in our brain that enables us to learn—to make the unknown, known—on both the Hebbian level of neurons (microscopic) and on the level of dual-brain (macroscopic) processing.