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Your third brain or Neocortex is quite remarkable. This brain is what is known as grey matter and
has all the capacity you will ever need to learn and
remember anything you want.
To get your brain capacity into perspective, consider this.
As it grows in the womb, a 12 week human embryo
develops 2000 brain cells a second.
An adult bee – which can do some pretty sophisticated
stuff, like building a honeycomb, calculate distance and
direction to signal the location of pollen to its companions –
has a total of 7000 brain cells. That’s the number of brain
cells a human embryo grows in about 3 seconds !
Indeed, the incredible capacity of the human brain has only recently been realised. You have
about 100 billion brain cells, a number almost impossible to visualise. It is twenty times the entire
population of the world.
Every thought leaves a trace

Research supports the view that what we believe in the form of a thought, has a physical
impact upon our brain. A brain cell looks a little bit like a small octopus, as in the diagram. The
cell is in the centre, with tiny threads that branch out. Each time something reaches one of your
senses (sight, sound, touch, smell) it creates a a thought or impression that travels out from a
brain cell along one of the little branch like threads, called “dendrites” (from the Greek,
meaning branch).

Each thought we have contains electrical
energy that creates a physical pathway
along a dendrite, very much like the groove
on the old long playing vinyl records. The
record player needle is like the thought, the
groove is like the dendrite or pathway.
Once a new pathway or dendrite is
created by a new thought, whenever that
thought is brought to mind, it will always use
the same dendrite.
If a thought (or belief) is repeated over and
over, the pathway is well used, the dendrite
becomes enlarged. If unused, the dendrite
withers.

This explains the human tendency to keep having the same negative and positive thoughts over
and over again. The thoughts of your thinking mind flow down the pathways of least resistance,
the biggest dendrites, operating like motorways. It becomes clear then, that because 70% of
our thoughts are negative through conditioning, we could create through these “motorways”,
easy routes where negative thoughts can fly around the brain and influence the way we
behave.
A research experiment was conducted many years ago on the brain of Albert Einstein, perhaps
the most gifted thinker the human race has ever known. After his death, examination of his brain
revealed that it was no larger than the average brain and did not contain any unique features
that are not present in your brain or mine. What was discovered was that his brain showed
significantly more electrical dendrite activity than normal.

When a thought passes along a dendrite, it leaves an impression mark, similar to a scorch mark.
The degree of scorching indicates the degree of brain activity in life.