Dr. Leaf | Anatomy of Thought Part 1

hi I'm Dr Caroline Leaf in this video blog we're going to be talking about the anatomy of thought what is a thought a thought is a real thing it occupies mental real estate thoughts are real

every moment of every day as you are thinking you are changing the structure of your brain because your brain is made up of thoughts thoughts are memories thoughts are real things that are constantly changing and constantly

growing if you have a look at this picture over here this is a neuron a nerve cell we have a around about 100 billion nerve cells in our brain and those nerve cells work at an incredible

speed as you thinking your brain is operating at about 400 billion actions per second building thoughts this is called the neuroplasticity of the brain neuro meaning brain plastic meaning can

change so all the thinking that you are doing all day long is constantly changing the structure of your thought life which is constantly changing the structure of your brain if you look back at this picture over here and you look

at this top end over here here you'll see that our thoughts actually look like trees there's the branches of the tree and there's the tree trunk now these over here those branches over there you

are growing those all the time you'll have a look over here and I have two trees a black tree which I call a toxic TH or a toxic memory and a green healthy tree which is symbolic of a healthy

thought or a healthy memory these are just symbolic of this actual neurological structure but all day long you are thinking because you're a thinking being you are also thinking at

night while you're sleeping at night while you're sleeping you're sorting out your thinking in preparation for the next day and as you're thinking you are building thoughts and you're a thinking

being you think you choose and you build and you can choose to build a healthy thought or a toxic thought and the implications of these are huge when you build a healthy thought it's healthy

words healthy actions healthy mind when you build a toxic thought it is toxic thoughts toxic words toxic action toxic mind