Brain trivia

By Jennifer Dunn


Have to know brain facts

brain health and brain function is deeply linked to your experience of life. It influences everything.

Brain functioning is affected by more things and more easily than most people realize.

The brain is delicate and can be injured more easily than people realize.

"Neurons wire together when they fire together" is another way of expressing repetition and/or high intensity can transform brain patterning.

The brain is actually viewed as "plastic". If given the right factors it has much more capacity to overcome brain injury problems than recently thought.

Special brain technology may also help the brain to form new neuro-nets wherever it requires them. This technology allows your brain to really know what brain balance feels like and can cause the capacity to switch into a healthy and balanced brain state on demand.

Simple brain facts

The brain is two to three percent of the body weight but consumes twenty percent of your oxygen and the circulation of blood.

The brain is able to stay alive 4 to 6 minutes without having oxygen.

The brain alone doesn't feel pain.

The brain has the consistency of soft tofu.

The brain is approximately 3/4 water.

There are about 100 billion neurons in the brain and each has 1,000 to 10,000 synapses (did neuro-scientists really count them?).

The brain and central nervous system are intimately connected.

Intriguing brain facts

About 30,000 neurons fit within a pin head.

The brain generates up to 25 watts of power, enough to illuminate a small light bulb.

There are far more possible connections inside brain than there are known particles inside the universe.

The brain produces a range of brain frequencies that reveal a surprising amount of information as to the physical and mental state of the person being measured.

A human brain weighs about an average of 1,350 grams for adults and 375 grams for infants.

How do we compare with the other species?

* Sperm Whale: 7,800 grams * Elephant: 3,783 grams * Walrus: 1,100 grams * Polar Bear: 498 grams * Lion: 240 grams * Beagle: 72 grams * Porcupine: 25 grams * Bull Frog: 0.24 grams

Important brain facts

The brain balance approach is a new measurable way of looking at brain function. As brain balance can be measured, it can be measurably improved.

The brain records daily life experieces as memories. Memories create neuropathways which contain "content" and "feeling."

Perception profoundly impacts how neuropathways are created. Experiences regarded as "negative" form negative charges or negative emotions. Experiences regarded as "positive" create positive charges or positive emotions. These emotions effect the body, mind and health.

The brain processes new life encounters by making use of established neuropathways (neuro-nets) to create responses and then build new neuropathways.

The brain is exposed to a continuous stream of positive and negative factors and an ever-increasing number of brain stress factors that affect brain balance.




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