The brain is a collection of neuropathways that are constantly being built or destroyed, based upon the stimulation that they receive. A negative conversation, full of gossip and criticism, strengthens negative pathways in the brain. A conversation full of expletives and destructive comments creates and sustains neuropathways of negativity, anxiety, anger, and dread. The neuronal associations in your brain are formed by the conversations you have that build them. You are always creating the structures of your brain in the social interaction you have in the world. Yes, you can tell your children that they become the company they most keep. That’s just how the social neuroplastic brain is –you become what you think and speak and feel. And once you feel negative and down, getting into an UpSpiral is like losing weight –its difficult. But never impossible. It's simply a choice. Most important is choosing how you want to feel. Then put yourself in those situations and with those people who build and sustain the conversations, the ideas, the interchanges, and the feelings that are about “feeling good."