Brain facts

Must know brain facts

• Brain balance and functioning is profoundly connected to life experience. It shapes everything.
  
  
• Brain functioning is affected by many more things and more easily than most people realize.
  
  
• The brain is delicate and can be injured more easily than people realize.
  
  
• "Neurons that fire together, wire together" is another way of saying repetition and/or intensity can change brain patterns.
  
  
• The brain is now considered "plastic". If given the right circumstances it has much more ability to recover from brain injury symptoms than previously thought.
  
  
• Specialized brain technology can assist the brain to create new neuro-nets exactly where it needs them. This technology helps the brain know what brain balance feels like and brings about the ability to move into a balanced brain state at will.
  

Basic brain facts

• The brain is 2 to 3% of the body mass but uses 20% of its oxygen and blood flow.
  
  
• The brain can only survive 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen.
  
  
• The brain itself does not feel pain.
  
  
• The brain has the consistency of soft tofu.
  
  
• The brain is about 75% 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 the nervous system are intimately interconnected.

Interesting brain facts

• About 30,000 neurons would fit within a pin head.
  
  
• The brain generates up to 25 watts of power, enough to illuminate a small light bulb.
  
  
• There are more potential connections in the brain than there are known particles in 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.

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 life experieces as memories. Memories form neuropathways that contain "content" and "feeling."
  
  
• Perception deeply affects how neuropathways are formed. Experiences perceived as "negative" create negative charges or negative emotions. Experiences perceived as "positive" create positive charges or positive emotions. These emotions impact the body, mind and health.
  
  
• The brain processes new life experiences by drawing on existing neuropathways (neuro-nets) to form reactions and then create 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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