Super Brain Quotes

“One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say, "My memory isn't what it used to be ..." you are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

Low expectations mean low results.

The first rule of super brain is that your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited.
But what if you do the opposite? What if you teach your brain to be unlimited?”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

“Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) by connecting with other people, expressing your best self. You fulfill your negative feelings by releasing them. Your whole system recognizes negative feelings as toxic. It's futile to bottle them up, divert them, ignore them, or try to rise above them. Either negativity is leaving or it's hanging on - it has no other alternative.

As you fulfill emotions, your brain will change and form new patterns, which is the whole goal.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

“If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will be like in the future, look at your thoughts today.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Everything hinges on how you relate to your brain. By setting higher expectations, you enter a phase of higher functioning. One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to overlook are the feedback loops that connect the brain to every cell in the body. Therefore when you throw a ball, run on a treadmill, or jog along the shore, billions of cells are "seeing" the outside world. The chemicals transmitted form the brain are acting the way sense organs do, making contact with the outside world and offering stimulation from that world.

This is why the jump from being sedentary to doing a minimal amount of exercise - such as walking, light gardening, and climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator - is so healthy. Your cells want to be part of the world.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

“Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity. One inspired teacher can alter a student for life by instilling curiosity.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“Moving from Hope to Faith to Knowledge

Step 1: Realize that your life is meant to progress.

Step 2: Reflect on how good it is to truly know something rather than just hoping and believing. Don't settle for less.

Step 3: write down your dilemma. Make three separate lists, for the things you hope are true, the things you believe are true, and the things you know are true.

Step 4: Ask yourself why you know the things you know.

Step 5: Apply what you know to those areas where you have doubts, where only hope and belief exist today.

The brain likes to work coherently and methodically, even when it comes to spirituality. The first two steps are psychological preparation; the last three ask you to clear your mind and open the way for knowledge to enter.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

“You won’t know what your brain can do until you test its limits and push beyond them. No matter how inefficiently you are using your brain, one thing is certain: it is the gateway to your future. Your success in life depends on your brain, for the simple reason that all experience comes to us through our brains.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“Einstein’s brain. Defying expectations that big thoughts required a big brain, Einstein’s brain actually weighed 10 percent less than the average brain.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“In our everyday lives, if we intentionally set out to learn new things or do familiar things in new ways (such as commuting to work via a new route or taking the bus instead of a car), we effectively rewire our brains and improve them. A physical workout builds muscle; a mental workout creates new synapses to strengthen the neural network.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“First the child attempts to keep up with other children. When these efforts fail, for whatever reason, discouragement sets in. The child stops trying as hard as the children who meet with success and encouragement. The next phase is acting out, making disruptive noises or pranks to attract attention. Every child needs attention, even if it is negative. The disruptions can be aggressive, but eventually the child realizes that nothing good is happening. Acting out leads to disapproval and punishment. So he enters the final phase, which is sullen silence. He makes no more effort to keep up in class. Other children mark him as slow or stupid, an outsider. School has turned into a stifling prison rather than an enriching place. It’s not hard to see how this cycle of behavior affects the brain.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“We now know that babies are born with 90 percent of their brains formed and millions of connections that are surplus.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“From birth, nature has designed us to approach the world as a whole, and when we slice experience up into bits and pieces, wholeness breaks down. Then, instead of living in reality, you are being fooled by a reality illusion.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life used to dominate everyday existence, at a time when families sat around the fire of an evening and ate every meal together.

That's no longer true. Families today are often loose constellations. Contact is intermittent and rushed. everyone has their own space. Activity is scattered all around town, not confined to the home. Cars have made everyone mobile, but central heating may be the most powerful force in shaping modern society.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

“Only consciousness can understand consciousness. No mechanical explanation, working from facts about the brain, suffices.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Creativity is a living, breathing, ever new inspiration that no computer can match. Why not take full advantage of it? For the brain has the miraculous ability to give more, the more you ask of it.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Neuroplasticity is better than mind over matter. It’s mind turning into matter as your thoughts create new neural growth.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“The injured brain cannot heal itself. Now we know that the brain has amazing powers of healing, unsuspected in the past. The brain’s hardwiring cannot be changed. In fact, the line between hard and soft wiring is shifting all the time, and our ability to rewire our brains remains intact from birth to the end of life. Aging in the brain is inevitable and irreversible. To counter this outmoded belief, new techniques for keeping the brain youthful and retaining mental acuity are arising every day. The brain loses millions of cells a day, and lost brain cells cannot be replaced. In fact, the brain contains stem cells that are capable of maturing into new brain cells throughout life. How we lose or gain brain cells is a complex issue. Most of the findings are good news for everyone who is afraid of losing mental capacity as they age.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“Ahora sabemos que el cerebro puede formar nuevos axones y dendritas hasta el final de la vida, lo que aumenta enormemente las esperanzas de poder prevenir la senilidad, por ejemplo, y de preservar nuestra capacidad mental de manera indefinida. (La capacidad del cerebro para crear nuevas conexiones es tan extraordinaria que un feto a punto de nacer forma unas 250.000 células cerebrales nuevas por minuto y, por tanto, millones de nuevas conexiones sinápticas en ese mismo período de tiempo).”
― Deepak Chopra, Supercerebro (Psicología)

“un nuevo estudio ha demostrado que el estrés rutinario bloquea el córtex prefrontal, la parte del cerebro responsable de la toma de decisiones, de la corrección de errores y de la evaluación de situaciones. Esa es la razón de que la gente se vuelva loca en los atascos de tráfico. Se trata de un estrés rutinario, pero la rabia, la frustración y la impotencia que sienten algunos conductores indica que su corteza prefrontal ha dejado de regular los impulsos primarios que debe controlar. Volvemos a lo mismo una y otra vez: usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas. Este es un tema muy importante al que debemos prestar atención.”
― Deepak Chopra, Supercerebro (Psicología)

“Volvemos a lo mismo una y otra vez: usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas. Este es un tema muy importante al que debemos prestar atención.”
― Deepak Chopra, Supercerebro (Psicología)

“uno no puede recordar lo que nunca ha aprendido.”
― Deepak Chopra, Supercerebro (Psicología)

“cuando la mente desea trascender, el cerebro está dispuesto a seguirla.”
― Deepak Chopra, Supercerebro (Psicología)

“You must use your emotions to empower your passion for reaching personal goals. You must utilize your intellect to strategize, and finally you must detach your awareness to acquire the sobriety needed to achieve those goals. In other words, you need to cycle between the passion generated by your fears and desires and the rational thoughts associated with self-control and discipline”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“These points all center on self-awareness. When you do anything—eat breakfast, make love, think about the universe, write a pop song—your mind can be in only one of three states: unconscious, aware, and self-aware. When you are unconscious, your mind is passively receiving the constant stream of input from the outside world, with minimal reactions and no creativity. When you are aware, you pay attention to this stream of input. You select, decide, sort, process, and so on, making choices about what to accept and what to reject. When you are self-aware, you loop back on what you are doing, asking How is this for me? At any given moment, all three states coexist.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“Heroes of super brain aren’t the same as super heroes. They are realistic models for change. We believe that the continual development of super brain will lead to a healthier and more highly functioning brain. You will allow your emotions and thoughts to serve their intended purpose, to create the reality in which you deeply desire to live. You will no longer identify with repetitive cyclic patterns in the brain or the limited behavior that they lead to. You will be free to experience higher awareness and a more powerful sense of who you really can be.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“we believe that behavior and expectations are key. When you become passionate and excited about learning again, the way children are, new dendrites and synapses will form, and your memory can once again be as strong as it was when you were younger.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“Your brain is remodeling itself right now. It doesn’t take an injury to trigger the process—being alive is enough. You can promote neuroplasticity, moreover, by exposing yourself to new experiences. Even better is to deliberately set out to learn new skills. If you show passion and enthusiasm, all the better.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“La pobreza es sin duda una fuente de infelicidad, pero también lo es el dinero, ya que una vez que la gente tiene lo suficiente para asegurarse las necesidades básicas, el dinero extra no la hace más feliz; de hecho, la responsabilidad añadida, junto con el miedo a perderlo, a menudo tiene el efecto contrario.”
― Deepak Chopra, Supercerebro (Psicología)

“Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy. Taking”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain