Neural pruning is the process of removing neurons that are no longer used or useful in the brain. Don’t try it at home! It’s a natural process in the brain that happens at different developmental stages. Children’s brains grow rapidly and in the flood of new learning, neural pathways are created that are useful in some stages but not others. At the initial stages of acquiring new skills, neurons grow thickly and rapidly. Neuroscientist Donald Hebb is often quoted as saying “Neurons that fire together wire together.” But eventually, as some behaviours are found to be more useful and used more often, some of the pathways die out. It’s this process of strengthening and “pruning” that allows us to continue learning and maturing through our lifetime.
Dan Siegel writes in The Mindful Brain:
When we focus our attention in specific ways, we are activating the brain’s circuitry. This activation…
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I was placing a flat of freshly planted succulent cuttings on the greenhouse bench when this color caught me. I dashed for my Canon. Enthralled by the scintillating shades in this epiphylim bloom I was ready to click the button when a bee agreed and buzzed in for pollen. Bees are beauty builders. Bees feed us and sometimes bust up a picnic.
Look closely soften your focus and you will experience all the colors of the chakras generously and wonderously radiating from this one bloom. From the red root to the violet crown and white light. Look long enough and you may even feel a shift in your own energy field. Feel blessed. You are a blessing.
Leaf and Loves 