© 2015 lumity get to know your brain. © 2015 lumity review ■what did we talk about in our last...
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Review
■ What did we talk about in our last class?
■ What are the 5 primary emotions?
■ What is the purpose for each of the primary emotions?
■ How do you tend to experience each of the 5 basic emotions
■ What would we not be able to accomplish without our emotions?
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Assignment Check-In
■ Refer to your assignment worksheet on emotions.■ How many of the 5 primary emotions were you
aware of experiencing last week?■ Which of the 5 primary emotions did you notice the
most?■ What did doing the assignment confirm about what
you already believed about your emotions?■ What surprised you? What did you learn about our
emotions that you didn't realize before?
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The Brain
■ Use 20% of your body’s energy■ Over 100 billion neurons – store information■ Neural pathways = the roads that connect
your neurons■ The brain in your most complex organ■ Connects everything
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Regions of the Brain■ Brain = our control center■ 3 Main Regions:
■ Primitive – automatic functions: breathing, heart beat, balance/movement, scanning for threats,
known as the LIZARD BRAIN
■ Feeling – source of our emotional and social impulses: anger, fear, etc., activated by threats
known as the MOUSE BRAIN
■ Thinking – most developed part of brain; stores memory, helps us plan, imagine, find solutions, communicate with others, can control feelings. The source of our likes/dislikes, hopes, ambitions
known as the HUMAN BRAIN
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Brain Plasticity
■ Also called neuroplasticity■ The lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize
neural pathways based on new experiences■ Habits = well-traveled neural pathways in our
brain■ The ability of the brain to change with learning■ Focus and build up the pathways we want to
strengthen■ Neural pathways we ignore (old habits) can
die off
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Your Teenage Brain
■ Your brain is developing until you reach your 20s.
■ You get 2 periods of “overproduction” of the brain’s grey matter:■ During your first 18 months■ During your teenage years
■ After this “overproduction” period “unused” neuron connections wither away
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Your Teenage Brain
■ Now is the best time to hard-wire your brain!■ If you “exercise” your brain you can:
■ Learn to order your thoughts■ Understand abstract concepts■ Control your brain’s impulses
■ What you do now will serve you for the rest of your life.
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Your Teenage Brain■ You can decide what you want to hard-wire your
brain for by focusing on those activities, such as:■ Sports
■ Playing a musical instrument
■ Math
■ Public speaking
■ Or, you focus instead on:■ Sitting on the couch and watching TV
■ Spending hours on Facebook and Instagram
■ Which would you rather practice for? It’s up to you!
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Homework assignment
■ Over the next week, identify the Top 10 things that you most want to develop in yourself and write them on the assignment worksheet.
■ When you have identified an area you want to develop, then write down one goal that would be a simple way to build those new neural pathways.
■ Then, take one step and do one activity to get started■ EXAMPLE:
1. Skill/Area: I want to become good at music
2. Idea for Improvement: Really learn to sight read music instead of guessing.
3. First step: Put aside 30 minutes and practice music theory.