Comments on: Using your mind well.

By: Porcia @ Power Prolines

Porcia @ Power Prolines — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:11:53 +0000

Great post again. Web Design Bangkok, is so correct here, as I know someone in a situation much like the one they talk about here, and this person is so down and feels hopeless and has no energy to focus on any thing and saying that, their creative thinking is just not there,

By: Book review: CrazyBusy, by Edward Hallowell. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:03:53 +0000

[...] first place. Here, Hallowell suggests something similar, and something that I’ve touched on before: that maintaining positive emotions helps you to use the frontal lobes of your brain better and [...]

By: Web Design Bangkok

Web Design Bangkok — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:56:01 +0000

I think it really depends on the level at which negative thoughts dominate. For example, if you have just lost your job and have no money for food and rent with not a soul to help you out, I’m sure the cerebellum will be left in low gear, whereas if you’re on top of things, creative thinking will be a possibility.

By: dblwyo

dblwyo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:17:33 +0000

I just can’t leave this one alone. That’s a good explanation but you should add any set of thoughts turns out to be a circuit among several regions of the brain from hind to fore. Whether your emotions dominate or your logic is a matter of training, practice, discipline and experience. The military has it right after all these years – you react in emergencies as you’ve been trained and you train as you’ve thought it thru ahead of time. It’s always amused me that Bodhidharma was the founding patriarch of Chan in China and the progenitor of Shaolin Kung Fu but neither the Zen Buddhists nor the fighting monks much acknowledge the other side of the lineages. So the question is how does one train ahead of time to react well in a crisis. Well the exercise manual has yet to be developed but some recent and older work is a start. Gladwell and Colvin’s books illustrate the 10K Rule but if you want the science try Begeley’s “Train Your Mind”. Try James “Talks to Teachers” plus some of his essays on decision-making in the Everyman edition. Finally, not to go airey-fairey on you, try “Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation” by Paramanda, which is consistent with both science, James and the Greeks :) !

By: LizS

LizS — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:04:43 +0000

As a consultant, actively engaging in building new relationships and bartering services, especially when things are slow, can help to keep the anxiety at bay and engage the correct lobe! I’m not suggesting that it works all the time but activity begets activity.

Thanks as always, for a provocative post Tim.