Memorable Brain Facts

If you have been to one of my keynote presentations or workshops it is highly likely that you have heard me talk about the brain and brain facts. I've been asked to write them down and provide them for other trainers or coaches so that's what I have done here for you.

To start with, I get the audience to form with their hands two fists and put both of their fists together and say "This is the approximate size of your brain..." and then I move immediately into a whole string of brain facts and examples to bring an awareness of how amazing our brain is.

Brain Facts

Here are a list of the facts I present in trainings we run, and some examples of makng the fact relative to the audience:

Your brain is 1.4kg average weight or 1.27kg average weight if you are a female. And of course ladies you know that it's not how big it is but how you use it that counts, right!!!

It has 100 billion neurons. How much is 100 billion? It is 167 times the population of our planet. So that's like 167 planet earths all lined up in a row.

If you were to start counting now "1-2-3-4-5-6-7 etc..." it would take you 171 years of counting to reach the number, 100 billion!

These 100 billion brain cells can make more connections with each other, that is, 1cell to another cell etc... and in doing so, make more connections than there are atoms in the Universe!

If you were to make a pile of A4 paper. Placing 1 piece of paper on top of another. A pile of 100 billion pieces of paper would soar to a height of 8,000km's

You have more than 350,000km's of neural wiring in your amazing brain which is enough wiring to be able to wrap around the earths equator 27 times.

You have an electrical impulse that travels at more than 320kmph down those kilometers of neurol wiring, processing information at more the 100 trillion processes per second, when you are driving your car!

You brain requires 20% of the oxygen you breath and 20% of the kilojoules you consume to maintain it's basic functions. Of all the blood that the heart pumps out, 20% of it is required by the brain. If we were to apply Paretos principle to our body, then the brain is the 20% that provides the 80% of our lifes experience.

That your brain is approxiamately 75% water very similar to the percentage of water to land ration as our Earth.

You do not see with your eyes. You see with your brain. Your eyes take in the basic primary colours and convert these light signals, sending them down the optic nerve to the occipital lobe where the brain "makes sense" of what the light impulses mean.

Our brain can slow time down or speed time up.

Our brain determines our entire experience on a daily basis.

And... this is the important bit....

If you do not drive it yourself then someone or something else will! So you can be the passenger in your own life's journey and hope like hell things go well for you (highly unlikely!) or you can step into the drivers seat, take charge of the controls. And determine both the direction and destination of yor own life. This is the choice that we each have!

The $1,000,000 question is...

"DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RUN YOUR OWN BRAIN?"

None of us were given a users manual for our amazing brain. None were taught how to eliminate disempowering beliefs, or how to make better internal movies, and edit out the horrable parts that life dishes out.

Is it possible to do this an more with our amazing brain?

YES... it is!

Closing Comment:

I hope you'll find these brain facts useful - I have been using these and others for many years now. If you are a Trainer or Coach, perhaps you'll catch me using these at my next keynote or training. They are a great base from which you can begin introducing the techniques, that we use in Neuro Semantics and Meta-Coaching to "run our own brains".