The language we use to describe our emotions affects how we feel. I see this often in my work, and this is the basis for a common call to “reframe”. There is more to mere “reframe”.
But first, can we identify our emotions now? How do we do this? What words do we use, and why? Words are culturally-informed, and we use words as a tool for social conformity, in our instinctive desire and attempt to belong.
~ FlorenceT
“Empathy is a distributed brain process” says the research team from the University of Colorado Boulder.
What does this mean? Empathy as an experience is not located in a specific region of the brain, rather it “utilises” the whole brain.
The researchers differentiate between empathic care – where empathy generates care and assistance and occurring in the part of our brain associated with value and reward; and empathic distress – where it triggers avoidance, fear and anger, and occurring in that part of our brain dealing with mirroring.
While there is little difference person to person as to the patterns for empathic care and empathic distress, what promotes the care element?
Check this out on Medical News Today.
Brainwriting is “scientifically proven to get better creativity from anyone” says Leigh Thompson, professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Brainwriting is the precursor to brainstorming. Write your ideas before you share them, as a way to navigate team dynamics. Seems like a technique most suited to those exhibiting greater introversion.
Check out the post here.
“Innovative thinking, after all, comes from extended concentration…” as MIT neuroscience professor discloses that multi-tasking is an illusion.
Humans have limited capacity for simultaneous thought, rather what we perceive as multi-tasking is rapid sequential processing which Prof. Miller states lacks depth and impedes concentration.
If you want to be a leader in your field, try taking long periods of time to focus on the one thing that truly matters.
See this article from Fortune magazine.
An alternate view on the cause of depression… it’s physiological. “Finally, we can say that depression is not always something that is only in your mind, it could be a problem in your body as well,”
For more, see this article in the UK Telegraph.
The New York Times reports that in 2007 a school school based in a troubled neighbourhood in San Francisco implemented a transcendental meditation program among its high school students. “Over the next three years, Visitacion Valley’s suspensions dropped by 79 percent, attendance rose to 98 percent, and students’ grade point averages rose each year.”
And a 2015 review of the program which as adopted by several other schools “showed benefits across parameters including reduced stress, increased emotional intelligence, reduced suspensions, increased attendance and increased academic performance”.
These effects of meditation are well-documented and scientifically proven. So what are we waiting for? Implement one at your workplace!
Mindfulness has been shown to improve memory and cognitive abilities. Perhaps this explains the positive correlation between the practice of Kundalini yoga and memory in this study, greater than the memory-training exercises.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/05/12/yoga-may-improve-memory-better-than-brain-training.html
‘If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.’
Seems this statement by William Arthur Ward has scientific backing. Recent studies indicate the effects of imagery or visualisation to identity-based motivation and success.
https://aeon.co/opinions/when-does-the-future-begin-a-study-in-maximising-motivation
