Brain formation
Genes do play an
essential role in the brain's formation. More than half of a child's 100,000
genes are devoted to growing the 100 billion brain cells (called neurons)
which will be needed to perform many tasks. During the nine months in
the womb, a baby's brain produces the neurons and connections, the majority
of neurons are still waiting to be wired.
That astonishing activity - the building of the circuitry that results in a
baby's ability to smile, walk, talk, reason and respond and the TOTAL
OUTLOOK OF LIFE - occurs during the first decade of life, which is
influenced by the thoughts of the mother during pregnancy. After
generations of debate, scientists and child-development experts now agree
that the brain is a complex coupling of nature - the genes a person is born
with - and nurture - the experiences she has after she is born.
But what ancient masters have understood and neuro-scientists has yet to
learn is that the wiring pattern's foundation is drastically influenced when
the baby grows in the womb that is dictated by mother's thoughts.
Indeed, new technology that can measure the location and volume of activity
in the brain provides convincing evidence that the words we coo, songs we
sing and peekaboo games we play have a direct impact on which connections
will form, which will be strengthened and which discarded in the intricate
brain circuitry that children carry with them into adulthood.
NEURON
A neuron looks
like an octopus, but with many more than eight tentacles; each one has a
tendril that sends out signals to its neighbors and to other parts of the
body. "There are neurons that go down to the bottom of your spinal cord -
one cell goes for two feet." That's one reason why kids need the support of
mother to do the wiring. unfortunately modern women allow that job to happen
in a day care center.
Brain cells also
need to receive signals. To do this, their tendrils feather out to form
connections - or synapses - with other cells. By a child's third birthday,
each neuron will link up with as many as 15,000 others, forming a remarkable
1,000 trillion connections. That's a lot of brain power. What's more,
scientists now know that these connections multiply at a feverish pace
during the first ten years of life. That contradicts the long-held theory
that a child's brain is less active than an adult's; indeed, your adult
brain gets by with only half the number of synapses a child has, using a
fraction of the energy. No wonder parents often have difficulty keeping up
with their kids! This is an important fact during parenting.
But brain development is not just about creating links. As it matures, the
brain also eliminates, or prunes, connections. In a child's first three
years, very little pruning occurs, but after age ten the elimination of
unnecessary or little-used synapses takes off, with connections in some
parts of the brain being pruned at a rate of 33 per second.
What these modern researchers talk is about the child's environment after
birth. Seldom they understand that the decision of which neurons should sit
next to each other is done while in the womb. Again and again we let you
know that this is influenced by mother's thought.
Knowing about the weakness and laziness of human mind, ancient seers introduced
these values in the form of rituals. We will
see the details of this fascinating ritual called seemant.
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