How to retrain your brain
July 20th 2011 20:19
There are two ways to bounce back from minor setbacks and upsets, says Harvard Business Review: one by talking to yourself, the other by retraining your brain.
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"Every leader faces a share of irritating screw-ups and minor setbacks. In response to those annoyances, some leaders get irritable and stressed out. Others keep on moving.
To be in that enviable latter category, you need resilience: train your brain to bounce back from hassles rather than get snagged by them.
Find a quiet place where you won't be interrupted. Sit comfortably and focus on your breath. Notice yourself inhale and exhale. Don't try to change your breathing, just be attentive to it. As thoughts, sounds, or other distractions come up, let them go and return your attention to your breath.
By doing this 30 minutes a day you will teach your brain to go to a quiet calm place when it is stressed, rather than triggering your fight or flight response."
-Today's management tip was adapted from "Resilience for the Rest of Us" by Daniel Goleman.
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Comment by Quintin Watt
It's a bit like the very simplest form of meditation. First principles: allow yourself to simply BE there (nothing more complex than that; no 'add-on's to that).
Second: allow the rest of the world to be there, too - just exactly as it is; not as you would wish it in some kind of idealised internal heaven - that's another project altogether; for your dream-building. Gotta first be able to simply BE there, and able to tolerate the world as it IS ... before you can constructively seek to change it or any part of it.
Thirdly: go to your own actually INNER quiet and peaceful place. I call it (with my clients, when I use deep hypnosis) simply 'your special place'. This exists inside EVERYBODY's mind - and it's ALWAYS there: it's just sometimes easier to reach under hypnosis. However, ALL mental relaxation techniques, if you use them properly, can help you go there. It's part of you; you constructed it, actually long, long ago when you were a very small child. You can change any part of it at will; it's entirely yours. This is the place where you build your dreams.
In your inner 'special place' all things are possible; failures do not exist; there is only EXPERIENCE.
Try it next time you hit a (metaphorical) brick wall. You'll surprise yourself!
More about all this on my forthcoming website: look out for the free opus - as I call my pieces of work (that's what 'opus' means in Latin): "Flight Out Of Time" . Why that title? You'll have to watch out for my website, won't you!
Good luck!
Jeff Watt Mental and Spiritual Healer.
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