Neuroplasticity
The brain's capacity to change through experience — the reason therapy can work at all.
What it means
Connections between neurons strengthen with use and weaken without it. A pattern you have practised for thirty years is therefore well worn, but not final. Change is possible at any age; it is only slower than we’d like.
Why it matters
It explains why a single insight isn’t enough and why repetition isn’t a waste of time. The new is consolidated by an experience that repeats — not by a realisation that happens once.
