The Power of Neuroplasticity Quotes

“Because of the way your brain will unconsciously duplicate neural activity of the person you're with, anyone you spend your time with can imprint your brain with their programs. And neither of you will know it is”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“​Your brain grows and changes based on feedback. What you tell it, changes it. And while it’s rewiring itself, your brain then feeds those new programs, those new pictures of yourself, back to you. It’s a feedback “loop.” What you put in, you get back out, in a continuous “neural activity feedback loop.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“what is called the "subconscious mind" is actually a result of the neural activity of the brain itself — your brain's neurons silently firing, without your control or awareness — rather than being a part of the activity of the "mind." In fact, the process can take place without the brain discussing it with the mind at all.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“Mindfulness ​2. Choices ​3. Intention ​4. Focus ​5. Repetition ​6. Emotion ​7. Belief”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“it makes no difference where you came from, if you know where you want to go.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“​Doing the same thing each day, day in and day out, doesn’t work. ​Being bored, doesn’t work. ​Never reading a book, doesn’t work. ​Never reading a book outside of your personal interests, doesn’t work.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“​If you think it’s too late to start making your brain feel young again—let me reassure you, it’s never too late to get better. Your brain is still very much alive, and getting ready for your next bright idea. Even if you’re getting older in years chronologically (we all are), there’s so much you can do to stay younger in your mind.  ​One of my favorite words is the word “wonderful.” As I use the word, it means “full of wonder.” And that describes a youthful, growing, learning mind at its best. That description should apply to you.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“When I wrote my first book, I wrote all of it to a short list of very specific musical selections I sought out, music I found would bring out the right emotion or the right kind of expression in whatever I was writing at the moment.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“​Of all of the ways we get programmed, it is our self-talk that plays the single most important role in the programming of the brain. If you have the wrong self-talk, your life will be a struggle, and cannot work well. If you use the right self-talk, you will wire your brain in the best possible way—and the results will show in your life.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“​Negative self-talk, and the way it wires the brain in a negative way, creates the difference between people who find success and happiness in life, and people who do not.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“​In most homes, the number one habit of distraction is television. As I’ve said, watching television is designed by its producers to be a habit, and most television viewing, as far as your brain is concerned, is mindless, not mindful.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“​The first thing I look for when I’m going to spend any length of time in a living or writing space is what’s on the walls. What’s on the walls will become what’s in your brain.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“It’s not who you’ve been; it’s who you decide to become—and that changes the story you’re about to live.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“your conscious intention to do something increases your brain’s ability to wire in new ideas!”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity

“Unless, of course, you stop, really think about it, consciously intervene, override your past programs, and choose the outcome of the vote for yourself.”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Power of Neuroplasticity