How to Tell if You Have a Healthy Brain

Neurological imbalances can show up as psychological, behavioral, and motivational problems. If we try to treat these problems at the psychological or behavioral levels, however, we can’t effectively cure them because the problems have physical causes, such as a buildup of toxicity in the brain. It’s my opinion that a wide swath of personal development advice, such as having to get control of your thoughts and feelings, is completely unnecessary and largely counter-productive. If we solve the problem at a physical level, our brains will perform intelligently enough to render such well-meaning advice useless. Instead of consciously fussing over our thoughts and feelings, our brains will naturally behave the way we want them to – no conscious management necessary. We accumulate toxins in the brain over a period of years because we live in a toxin-rich world these days. Our air is polluted. Our water is polluted. Our food is polluted. Our bodies are polluted. This is an unavoidable fact of modern society. Right now your body has detectable levels of hundreds of toxic substances inside of it, including plastics, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, and more. We live in an impure world, and so our bodies are filled with impurities. We soak up environmental toxins like sponges. Even with sophisticated internal detoxification systems, our bodies can’t keep up with the load, so these toxins pile up, particularly in the brain. The brain is a resilient organ, so wh...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Emotions Health Productivity Source Type: blogs