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Brainscience4peakperformance
This document provides an overview of a workshop on using brain science to improve performance. It discusses topics like neuroplasticity, mindfulness, mindful exercises, hormones and their relationship to stress and mood. Key concepts covered include the neuroplasticity of the brain, mindfulness and how it relates to reducing thoughts and connecting to primal intelligence, and hormones like cortisol and how stress affects the body. The document emphasizes practices like meditation, exercise, spending time in nature and accepting present realities as ways to enhance physical, mental and spiritual health.
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Brainscience4peakperformance
- 1. WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOPON USING BRAIN SCIENCE TO PEAK PERFORMANCE Shhankar Ganesh July 6,2013
- 2. INTRODUCTION TO BRAIN,MINDAND RELATIONSHIPS Neuro Plasticity of brain 8 BEST WAYS OF EXERCISING YOUR BRAIN
- 3. INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULBRAIN INTRODUCTION TO FEEL GOOD HORMONES CYCLE OF EXCELLENCE(PART)
- 4. Why neuro science •Our ability to know our own minds as well as to sense the inner world of others may be singular human talent , the key to nurturing healthy minds and hearts. • We can Scientifically ground the psychological and spiritual tools for our self healing and well being and improve human relationship.
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- 6. We all haveMAP of the world in our heads
- 7. Our MAP isupdated through our senses. We each take in information through a natural preferred combination of senses (called modalities) : See Smell Auditory Taste Touch-Kinesthetic / Tactile
- 8. MAPS Maps are theNeuro circuit that gets fired in the brain until we are familiar with the objects/situation We use Maps to identify anything and everything in the world which we perceive as Real
- 9. How Mind MAP Iam the figment of my Imagination -I MAP You are the figment of my Imagination-YOU MAP I am the figment of your Imagination –ME MAP IMAGINATION
- 10. What is Imagination •It is a artificial constructions of world which we think we are perceiving • Dendritic confabulation of world which is Inner reality. • It is far removed from Outer Reality as far as one possibly get
- 11. Objective Reality VSSubjective Reality
- 12. All that weare experiencing in our minds are the maps which we have created which we hold in the working memory of our frontal lobe for 30 seconds or less
- 13. How Many Coloursyou see?
- 18. Structure of Neurons •Working from home • Working offsite • Technology requirements
- 19. Every Human brainis Unique and Very creative
- 20. Hand Model ofBrain
- 21. Dr.Dan Siegel’s definitionof ―mind‖ • “A core aspect of the mind can be defined as an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information.” • Regulatory function • Monitor and Modify the energy flow by observing and change the flow by directing our attention
- 22. W? Traingle ofWell Being RELATIONSHIP ENERGY AND INFORMATION FLOW MIND BRAIN
- 23. Mind Conscious Mind • • • We are awareof. Part that is doing the task Our Brain is not capable of Multi tasking • It is one layer deeper. We install Science,Maths Maths,Scicen Skills like Driving, Operating Instruments and Playing and instrum Auto Pilot • It is sending trillions of impulses to a hundred trillion cells e t Trillio cells within very fraction of a second. Breathing, Bigesting,w Digesting,Walking and Growth of Muscles and tissues Sub conscious Unconscious Mind
- 24. FLOW OF DATA/INFORMATION Schematicof the Six layered Cortical Column and the Bottom -up and top-down flow of Information Layers TOP-Down Top-Down Dominance Top Down 1 2 3 AWARNESS 4 5 6 Visceral Maps Data Ghut Feeling Bottom-Up Bottom-Up Bottom-Up Dominance
- 25. Intelligence operating atMolecular level-(Inside our body) New Environment
- 26. Exercising your Brain EightWays to enhance your Physical,Mental and Spiritual Health 8. Smile 7.Stay Intellectually Active 6. Consciously Relax –Centring Exercise 5.Yawn 4.Meditate 3.Aerobic Exercise 2.Dialogue with Others 1.Faith
- 27. Faith Comprises ofthree components of Subjective Energies – Desire – Belief – Expectancy
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- 30. What is Mindfulness-Mindfulbrain • Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you –in your body,heart,and mind. • Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.
- 31. Mindfulness • • • • • • • We get around60,000 thoughts in a day and 90% of the thoughts are same as previous day Thoughts are the result of thinking Silence enable us to connect to intelligence You get inspired thoughts which may be the result of primal cause You intentionally focus your mind to achieve goals Intention is the precursor to thoughts
- 32. Mindful brain Exercise • • • • EatingMindfully Leaving no traces in the Bathroom Telephone Meditation Mindful driving • Mindful walking
- 33. What happens insidethe brain of a Meditator Dr.Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
- 34. Neuroplasticity of Brain OurCapacity for creating new neural connections and growing neurons in response to experience • Neurogenesis- Stimulation of Neurons for growth • Myelinogenesis=Talent code • Synaptogeneisis=Reducing Refractory period between firing and resting of neurons
- 35. Myelin Sheath-Talent code •Jeremy – His first day – Mistakes made – Successes achieved – The moral of the story
- 37. Hormones Create linkbetween the Body and Mind • Managing Stress effectively is more about changing our reaction to stress than attempting to avoid stressful situations. • Under stress,the body stops making the feel good hormones that keep us health and happy • Hurried lives create enormous stress even when our physical needs are being met • Testosterone for Men and Oxytocin , Estrogen , Progressterone for Women, serotonin ,dopamine are feeling good hormones • Cortisol is stress related hormone .Prolonged elevated cortisol level in our body is harmful mainly to Neuron growth and activation. • Adrenal glands is switch that triggered by our brain to produce either feeling good hormones or stress hormone Cortisol • We can change the way stress affects our bodies even if we can’t change the world
- 38. Cycle • As Stresslevels go up,the body releases cortisol • Elevated Cortisol inhibits fat burning and stimulates sugar burning • The muscles begin using up sugar • Blood sugar levels begin to drop • The brain orders you to eat more sugar • More cortisol is released to stabilize the fluctuating blood • The cycles begins again
- 40. Silence is notan absence of sound; it is the presence of meaning, In an age of increasing electronic chatter — 24x7 television, mobile phones, Twitter, SMSs — “getting the silent bits right” is becoming more and more difficult. And, for that reason, more and more necessary.
- 41. • Be Presentmindfully • Meditate for 20 minutes a day • Understand 4M-power (Mind,Meals,Muscle and Motions) • Drink plenty of water • Accept people, situations and events as they are, not as you wish they were, in this moment • Commune with nature: spend quality time with nature
- 42. God grant methe serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference. — REINHOLD NIEBUHR, THE SERENITY PRAYER
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- #9 Frontal lobe is associated with complex thinking and planning.Actitivity in this area of brain fires pattern that enable us to form a neural representation of the maps of various aspects of our worldIf you are seeing a bid sitting in a tree. Our brain takes light reflected from that object,our eyes send signals back into our brain and nearons here fire in certain patters that permit us to have the visual picture of the birdPhysical property of the neurons firing helps to create our subjetive experience-the thoughts,feelings and associations evoked by the object.
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