Where It All Begins: The Healthy Functioning of Your Prefrontal Cortex

The cerebral cortex is the part of the brain that gives you your higher cognitive functions (language, logic, and planning). It modulates the primitive emotional responses of your limbic system, including those of your brain’s fear center, the amygdala, and your reptilian complex, which regulates fight or flight. Your cerebral cortex also monitors and influences

1 Dec, 2014
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Pause Your Machinery: Operating Principles

Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness to learn and master, and this brief written exercise will give you the opportunity to rest, step outside the pattern of passive reading, and

27 Nov, 2014
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How my Organizing Principles Can Dominate and Control my Experience of the Present

Here’s a firsthand example of how one of my Organizing Principles—part of my prior learning—can dominate and control my experience of the present. Let’s say I’ve gone out socially with a new friend whom I want to connect with. If I’m being mindful, input from what’s occurring in the moment will enter from the

24 Nov, 2014
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The Interplay between Mindful Awareness and the Brain as “Anticipation Machine”

Let’s look at what’s happening in our brains when we operate on automatic pilot that allows our Organizing Principles to run us, no matter how dysfunctional these beliefs may be and how disabling a bind they create for us. Because of the brain’s very nature and structure, we are programmed to react. That’s what we

20 Nov, 2014
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Replacing Beliefs That Are Undermining Us at Work with New Beliefs That Support Us

For the last two weeks, I’ve been writing about how the culture of an organization can undermine its mandate or mission statement and that when this happens, it’s always done silently and in a stealth manner in the sense that people in the organization aren’t aware of it. As we discussed, an organization’s culture develops

17 Nov, 2014
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