Neuroscience is an interesting subject, and for me came to the fore a few weeks ago when I was asked to have an MRI scan to check out a series of pretty 'gnarly' headaches that I have been experiencing for a while... I turned up for the scan which went well (apart from the poor lady doing it having to deal with a broken air conditioning unit half way through which stopped the machine..) and I was given a DVD to bring home which I promptly popped into my laptop to watch ...
Wow! It is quite remarkable to behold what is up there within the old 'grey matter'.. A spaghetti mix of blood vessels weaving in and out of brain matter, and that is it. Nothing more, nothing less. Having watched it, I felt quite enlightened to know that (a) there is nothing wrong with my brain and (b) that we are such simple beings. I began to think very differently about myself, how I think, and what I do. I realized that worry really is simply a process our minds go through, which often simply wastes energy. I realized why our heads get so hot (there is a lot of blood up there being pumped around!). Since then, I have been refocused on the power of now, the present and the fact that we are given all the physical tools within our heads to decide how we want to feel and what we want to do - now. I am not entirely sure why, but I have a feeling it is the result of a medical procedure, the MRI scan, reminding me that life is often not as complicated as you at first think. Yes, the human brain is remarkable, but in the end it is actually quite a simple concept of chemical and electrical interactions.
It is amazing to think that we all have the same physical make up, something so complex and yet so simple and we are all empowered to make choices about how we use it. Having an MRI really emphasized this for me, and as a result I am thinking differently.
Wow! It is quite remarkable to behold what is up there within the old 'grey matter'.. A spaghetti mix of blood vessels weaving in and out of brain matter, and that is it. Nothing more, nothing less. Having watched it, I felt quite enlightened to know that (a) there is nothing wrong with my brain and (b) that we are such simple beings. I began to think very differently about myself, how I think, and what I do. I realized that worry really is simply a process our minds go through, which often simply wastes energy. I realized why our heads get so hot (there is a lot of blood up there being pumped around!). Since then, I have been refocused on the power of now, the present and the fact that we are given all the physical tools within our heads to decide how we want to feel and what we want to do - now. I am not entirely sure why, but I have a feeling it is the result of a medical procedure, the MRI scan, reminding me that life is often not as complicated as you at first think. Yes, the human brain is remarkable, but in the end it is actually quite a simple concept of chemical and electrical interactions.
It is amazing to think that we all have the same physical make up, something so complex and yet so simple and we are all empowered to make choices about how we use it. Having an MRI really emphasized this for me, and as a result I am thinking differently.
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Kate Stepman
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