SOME POSSIBLE INTERVENTIONS APPS INCLUDE: Photographs (look at your favourite photographs that make you smile) It doesn’t matter what type of intervention, just adopt one! SOME INTERVENTIONS YOU CAN ADOPT: If your mood is negative, adopt an intervention. Set reminders on your phone to record your moods. In order to keep us fuelled up, we need to be proactive about being positive. To actively seek ways to be positive. Dopamine is a fuel and we can only get this through eating, sleeping, exercise or having sex. Being negative drains us of dopamine. Adrenaline is a fuel, so getting excited or ‘pumped up’ works to feed our brain. If these are not talking to each other, the amygdala kicks in and highjack happens. The brain consists of frontal cortex (the logical, intelligent brain – decision making, strategising, rationalising), limbic system (the instinctual, emotional centre of the brain also responsible for habits, noticing and automation). We react quickly to avoid being killed! Imagine if our brain didn’t do that? Bear enters, “oh isn’t he cute, might try to pat him first” Disaster! So we need the negativity bias, but it is the management of our amygdala that matters. Our brain is wired for negativity to keep us safe! When the bear enters our cave, we assume they are going to eat us! That’s our amygdala kicking into action. By changing either of them, we can change or influence our emotions. It takes 60 seconds, but it will move you towards the positive. Try it!Įmotions are linked to our body and our brain. Pause – listen for distant noises, can you hear the traffic, wind in the trees, or birds? Observe – look out the window, look at the shadow, not that which is casting the shadow, focus on the patterns on your desk, book, chair Stop and notice what you notice, this helps to open up the brain, be more creative, more readily able to strategise and to see more opportunities.
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