Creativity

The Spectrum of Awareness

One of the many beautiful features of the human brain is the diversity and capacity to adapt to a constantly changing environment.

There is a spectrum of awareness, from a fully external orientation and awareness of everything that surrounds us, to an internally focused daydreaming state, where can lose ourselves in imagination.

Practising the skill of consciously moving through this spectrum from an external focus to a daydreaming, internal focus has many benefits:-

  1. It switches off the stress response.

  2. It enhances recovery and repair of tissues (healing).

  3. It boosts the immune system.

  4. It opens up creativity and imagination.

  5. It feels really really good !!!

I have described it here. Practise this skill as often as you like.

Mental Strength – Which Tool Do You Need?

Many people talk about Mental Strength as though it is one simple skill or character trait.

If you are strong enough mentally, you can just grit your teeth and get on with it and get to the other end in one piece (more or less).

You are mentally tough or you’re not.

Come on.

Just do it.

Grit your teeth.

Suck it up.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

 In reality, as usual, nothing is quite that simple.