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Chapter Three
WHY THE ANXIETY RELEASE PROTOCOL (ARP) WORKS
Getting To Know Your Brain
Iam old enough to have witnessed the facts change as science and psychology developed thorough practice and research. When I went to school, I was taught that the brain is not a
very flexible organ, and that “in fact,” by the time we reach our early- to mid-twenties, it is pretty much done growing and changing. I was told we’re pretty much stuck with what we’ve developed at that point, as in the old saying, “You can- not teach an old dog new tricks.”
We now know this ‘fact’ is wrong. We now understand the brain to have a nature that we describe as ‘plastic.’ (Here is another good example where people had to be curious over right – I had some pretty self-assured professors who knew they were right!) Your brain can be trained, intentionally and
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