Monday, April 11, 2016

Synapses that fire together wire together.

E ku deede iwoyio
I am sorry for posting a bit late this month due to my tight schedule.
Thank you for coming to the last meeting and thank you for the constructive contributions. We are very delighted that we were able to distribute the membership certificates at last, solidifying our membership status. Thank you for your understanding. Please let us know how we can serve you and the community better.
Throughout your brain there is a collection of synapses separated by empty space called the synaptic cleft. Whenever you have a thought, one synapse shoots a chemical substance across the cleft to another synapse, thus building a bridge over which an electric signal can cross, carrying along the relevant information you're thinking about. Don`t worry about the detail, but here's the catch, every time this electrical charge is triggered, the synapses grow closer together in order to decrease the distance the electrical charge has to cross. The brain is rewiring its circuit, physically changing itself, to make it easier and thus spark together making it easier for the thought to trigger.  
So having a thought makes it easier for you to have that thought again. That's not good news for the perpetually gloomy person. Not only do repeated negative thoughts make it easier to think yet more negative thoughts, they also make it more likely that negative thoughts will occur to you just randomly walking down the street. Another way to put this is that being consistently negative starts to push your personality towards the negative and /or makes you pessimistic outlook. Through repetition of thought, you've brought the pair of synapses that represent you closer and closer together, and when the moment arises for you to form a thought, the thought that wins is the one that has less distance to travel, the one that will create a bridge between synapses fastest. Gloom soon outraces positivism. The good news is that the opposite works in the same way. You will be positive and radiant if you think more positively. In the same way we can influence each other and the association in various ways and people looking from outside will be influenced to join and be part of the association and the process will continue after we are long gone. Hence “Synapses that fire together wire together”. 
Thank you again for your support.
If you were born in April you are not forgotten, you are a person of influence, we celebrate with you and wishing you the best always
Have a wonderful April everybody!

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