New Learning Experiences make you Braver and Smarter

New learning experiences build the courage muscle of the body and make you smarter.

Chinese Medicine ( which I studied in India and London in 1998 – 2000 ) proposes that courage resides in the lungs and by  “breathing in” new experiences we dispel the grief of past disappointment, guilt, and shame and learn to take more risks in our lives.

According to neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to change itself, every new learning experience causes the brain to grow more connections between the neurons. ( brain cells )

With more connections,  the neurons can send and receive more messages. These connections help to stretch a part of your brain and make it more elastic so that it can hold more information and ideas, making you more brainy.

Many of us deny ourselves new learning experiences that are very physical in nature, from fear of injury or failure.

In Acroyoga, being courageous and smart also means being injury-free, so we practice

Accurate Self Assessment ~

• Ensure your mind is focused on the body and can visualise the body going thru the motions of the activity.
• Prepare the body by breaking down the actions of the activity into separate conditioning exercises first.
• Evaluate the smartest variation for you to manage around pre-existing conditions and injuries.
• Ensure you have the support around you ( spotters or other equipment ) to be safe.

To address the fear of failure, when we are able to understand the emotional, mental and physical benefits of an activity beyond our immediate desire to want to master the skill,  we live our lives in a state of freedom.
We become free from the clutches of failure because we understand how in each situation, we have learned, then we have succeeded.

We have become a little braver and a little smarter! And that’s pretty cool!

” The idea that the brain can change it’s own structure and function through thought and activity is, i believe, the most important alteration in our view of the brain since we first sketched out it’s basic anatomy and the workings of it’s basic component, the neutron. “
~ Norman Doige