Cure Your Eating Disorder With The Power Of Neuroplasticity: 5 Crucial Steps

<h1>Cure Your Eating Disorder With The Power Of Neuroplasticity: 5 Crucial Steps</h1>Author: <a title="Irina Webster" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/irina-webster/37347.htm">Irina Webster</a> Neuroplasticity is the ability of the human brain to change itself based on how we live our lives. Our brain consists of cells or neurons that are interconnected. It means that different life experiences and different behaviours are constantly changing the strength of these connections, by adding or removing connections, and by adding new cells. "Plasticity" relates to learning by adding or removing connections, or adding cells. According to the theory of neuroplasticity, thinking, learning, and acting actually change the brain's physical structure or anatomy as well as functional organization, known as physiology, from top to bottom. The brain's plasticity exists from "cradle to grave" and the adult brain is not "hard-wired" with fixed and immutable neuronal circuits as was previously thought. So, neuroplasticity is the power to produce a more flexible and beneficial behaviour for the treatment of eating disorders. However, these positive changes will only happen if you target the eating disorder in a certain way. These can be subdivided into 5 steps of actions that you should undertake to stop your eating disorder. The 1st step: Believe that you can stop your eating disorder. Do exercises to begin changing the way your mind works. 2nd step: Re- Identify. Recognize the false nature of your eating disorder thoughts. 3rd step: Re-Symbolize. Escape from loop thinking that feeds the eating disorder. Loop thinking is when a thought like binging or starving oneself gets caught in a loop going around it the brain continuously and never being released. 4th step: Re-Direct. Defeat recurrent thoughts that give power to the disorder. 5th step: Re-Evaluate. De-value and ignore harmful urges until they start to fade away. By following these steps you can clearly see that by directing your attention away from food, weight and body image, you could learn to focus on positive eating habits and overcome destructive negative thoughts. Doing this, you as a eating disorder sufferer will be able to make permanent changes to your own neuronal pathways and change your life. To conclude, I want to say that the power of neuroplasticity can be a real "cure" for eating disorder sufferers. By eating disorder "cure" I mean that you achieve a state of mind where you can control your thoughts and feelings, instead of the thoughts and feelings controlling you. You can do this by influencing your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is your hidden level of awareness, where your automatism lies. This part of your brain controls all the things you have learned that are now automatic such as riding a bike, tying your shoe laces, and unfortunately for the sufferer the place where the eating disorder lives. With the help of the 5 steps you will learn that it is possible for you to reach your subconscious mind and make certain positive changes that will turn your life around: at escape from your eating disorder.About the Author: Dr Irina Webster MD is the Director of Eating Disorder Institute. She is an author of many books and a public speaker. To read about <a href="http://eating-disorders-books.com">eating disorders books</a> go to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eating-disorders-books.com">http://www.eating-disorders-books.com</a>Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/">ArticlesBase.com</a> - <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/cure-your-eating-disorder-with-the-power-of-neuroplasticity-5-crucial-steps-1270194.html" title="Cure Your Eating Disorder With The Power Of Neuroplasticity: 5 Crucial Steps">Cure Your Eating Disorder With The Power Of Neuroplasticity: 5 Crucial Steps</a>

Neuroplasticity is the ability of the human brain to change itself based on how we live our lives. Our brain consists of cells or neurons that are interconnected.

It means that different life experiences and different behaviours are constantly changing the strength of these connections, by adding or removing connections, and by adding new cells.

"Plasticity" relates to learning by adding or removing connections, or adding cells. According to the theory of neuroplasticity, thinking, learning, and acting actually change the brain's physical structure or anatomy as well as functional organization, known as physiology, from top to bottom.

The brain's plasticity exists from "cradle to grave" and the adult brain is not "hard-wired" with fixed and immutable neuronal circuits as was previously thought.

So, neuroplasticity is the power to produce a more flexible and beneficial behaviour for the treatment of eating disorders. However, these positive changes will only happen if you target the eating disorder in a certain way. These can be subdivided into 5 steps of actions that you should undertake to stop your eating disorder.

The 1st step: Believe that you can stop your eating disorder. Do exercises to begin changing the way your mind works.

2nd step: Re- Identify.
Recognize the false nature of your eating disorder thoughts.

3rd step: Re-Symbolize.
Escape from loop thinking that feeds the eating disorder. Loop thinking is when a thought like binging or starving oneself gets caught in a loop going around it the brain continuously and never being released.

4th step: Re-Direct.
Defeat recurrent thoughts that give power to the disorder.

5th step: Re-Evaluate.
De-value and ignore harmful urges until they start to fade away.

By following these steps you can clearly see that by directing your attention away from food, weight and body image, you could learn to focus on positive eating habits and overcome destructive negative thoughts.

Doing this, you as a eating disorder sufferer will be able to make permanent changes to your own neuronal pathways and change your life.

To conclude, I want to say that the power of neuroplasticity can be a real "cure" for eating disorder sufferers. By eating disorder "cure" I mean that you achieve a state of mind where you can control your thoughts and feelings, instead of the thoughts and feelings controlling you. You can do this by influencing your subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind is your hidden level of awareness, where your automatism lies. This part of your brain controls all the things you have learned that are now automatic such as riding a bike, tying your shoe laces, and unfortunately for the sufferer the place where the eating disorder lives.

With the help of the 5 steps you will learn that it is possible for you to reach your subconscious mind and make certain positive changes that will turn your life around: at escape from your eating disorder.

Dr Irina Webster MD is the Director of Eating Disorder Institute. She is an author of many books and a public speaker. To read about eating disorders books go to http://www.eating-disorders-books.com

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