08/11/2014
Slow your brain down!
Have you ever been stressed and feeling like you've got so much to do? This is the PERFECT time to slow your brain down, really slow it down. Focus on what the immediate task is in front of you and pay particular attention to what you are doing - to each movement of the task. This allows you to change the brain chemistry and brain function. You see when the brain is 'stressed' it operates from the lower sections of the brain predominately. It has gone into that familiar 'flight or fight' pattern or you may sometimes just stop functioning for a while and appear 'like a deer caught in headlights'. This is the perfect time to slow the brain down as this gives it the opportunity to create a new solution. In actual fact - at the point of slowdown and becoming aware, the brain is calming down and tuning in - in a calmer fashion. Once you have done this other higher brain functions can begin to function again and you begin to work out what's important and what can be left until later. You begin to feel like you are moving forward rather than just keeping your head above water or worse still, drowning. Slowing down is also a way that I find helps me appreciate my body and all it is capable of, I begin to notice all that I do and how my body works with me!
