Let's change your brain just a little more!

Look at your right hand. Touch your thumb to your pinky. Then touch your thumb to your index finger. Next, touch your thumb to your ring finger, and then touch your thumb to your middle finger. Repeat the process until you can do this automatically. Now faster and make your fingers move rapidily without a mistake. In a few minutes you should be able to master the action.

To learn the finger movements you rose out of your resting/relaxing state to a heightened state of conscious awareness. You increased your brain's level of energy.
You had to keep your brain from wandering to any other thought so you could learn this new action. You changed the way the arrangement of millions of brain cells fired in diverse patterns.

Next, I want you to close your eyes. Instead of physically demonstrating the finger exercise, practice doing the same actionin your mind. Remember what you just did moments before and MENTALLY touch each finger in the same way. Mentally rehearse the activity without physically doing it. Do it a few times in your mind, and then open your eyes. When you are mentally rehearsing, your brain seemed to imagine the entire sequence just as you actually did it. In fact, you fired the same set of nerve cells in the same part of your brain as if you were actually doing them.

In other words, YOUR BRAIN DID NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR DOING THE ACTION OR YOUR REMEMBERING THE ACTION.

THE ACT OF MENTAL REHEARSAL IS A POWERFUL WAY YOU CAN GROW AND MOLD NEW CIRCUITS IN YOU BRAIN.