The Role Neural Pathways Play in Your Child’s Brain
Children’s Neural Pathways in the brain are often likened to”express lanes” on freeways. By teaching the mind to take the “express lane”, means the brain doesn’t have to be continuously making decisions every time it’s confronted with repetitive, mundane tasks. Why repetitive tasks become easier over time is, as children, the more we practiced simple tasks in a repetitive way, the faster we learned, and the faster we learned the more ingrained our neural pathways became.. until finally, everyday tasks became automatic and we carried them out without conscious thought.
Now it may seem hard to believe, but this was how your child’s fear and anxiety was formed. Isn’t that how you taught your child to tie their shoe-laces and ride a bike? Remember when they had to really concentrate when tying shoe laces, and how wobbly and awkward they were until they found their balance? And remember how in the beginning all the mistakes they made.. but then were eventually able to tie their laces without too much thought. The same with riding their bike – they just did it.
Tricks Anxiety Plays In The Brain..
Anxiety is persistent. Even when the fear anxiety evokes makes no logical sense, the tricks it plays in the brain are so powerful they can disrupt a child’s life in an instant. And to make matters worse, the neural pathways triggering the anxiety are created far more rapidly than tying shoe laces.
Why is that?
I don’t know if you’ve ever touched a hot stove, but try comparing the tying of shoe laces with touching a hot stove! Touch a hot stove, the pain is instant! Intense! Your brain doesn’t want that experience again! Immediately it lays down an innumerable amount of neural pathways – so now, if you accidentally touch a COLD STOVE, you immediately pull your hand away.
It’s the same with a child who suffers from an anxiety disorder; a child does something, or goes somewhere, where at one time they had an experience that left them with some indelible fear – for the child to have to repeat that same experience would be, to them, like touching a hot stove! Why? Because they’ve been ACCIDENTALLY tricked into believing that some unutterable terror lurks there!
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