Your Brain Has A “Delete” Button — Here’s How To Use It

According to a recent article from Fast Company, the key to proper brain maintenance is a tight sleep.

It explains the concept of “synaptic pruning”, where our brain acts as a garden and the glial cells present in our brain serve as gardeners that prune the synaptic connections between neurons. This gives room for the new ones to generate. Some glial cells speed up the signals between certain neurons while a few others are weed removers that prune the synaptic connections between neurons. Such cells are called microglial cells.

While you sleep, your brain cleans itself out. This is why you are able to think positively and clearly when you get up from a good sleep. So, basically, when you sleep, pruning takes place, building a lot of room for new ideas or information to come in. Even a short nap of 15-20 minutes can give enough time to the microglial gardeners to clean away a few unused synaptic connections.

In this manner, your brain gives you scope to think of new ideas and thoughts, and build new and stronger connections so that you can learn more and delete unnecessary stuff.

To help your brain work efficiently, always try to think of things that are more important to you rather than things you don’t care about or that can make you sad or depressed.

So, did it ever happen to you that you got up from a good night’s sleep and were able to easily solve a problem that you were unable to the previous night? Now, you know why.

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