What your brain loves and hates

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

What is the main tool for an IT specialist? Computer? I think otherwise. First of all, we work with our heads. How does the brain work? For some reason, they don't tell us about this at school, university and at work, or they tell us very little. To work effectively, you need not only to be able to perfectly use the necessary software, but also to know how to tune your brain to work.

The brain loves

1. Specific purpose … As soon as you formulate for yourself a specific goal, task, miracles will immediately begin. There will be funds, opportunities and time for its implementation.

And if you, having set the main goal, are able to break it down into components, and calmly, gradually, constantly, step by step you will fulfill them - not a single problem will resist you.

2. Positive emotions … Emotions are short-term subjective reactions of a person to the world around him (joy, anger, shame, etc.). Feelings - a stable emotional relationship to other people, phenomena. Feelings are associated with consciousness and can be developed and improved.

Emotions are exciting - they increase the vital activity of a person, and depressing - that is, suppressive life processes. Positive emotions motivate a person to take action. They arise from satisfaction. Start looking for the simple joys of life - and stimulation will begin in the brain - the release into the body of large doses of endorphins, hormones of pleasure, which means satisfaction, and therefore positive emotions that excite and increase your vital activity, and allow thought processes to flow calmly, give rise to a good mood and positive mood for the world. It is human nature to seek joy - this is not a named instinct for self-preservation.

3. Movement and fresh air … In the fresh air, the blood is more actively saturated with oxygen, carries oxygen and nutrition to the brain cells faster, the processes of oxidation and metabolism intensify, the energy we need so much is released, new biochemical compounds are born. The brain makes us move in order to save ourselves and us, of course. Give pleasure to think, create, solve complex problems, have memories.

There is no movement of fresh air, the blood turns sour - the brains "turn sour".

4. Simple food in moderation … Simple foods are easier to obtain, prepare, and digest. The brain says (if you want to hear it): buddy, 50% of all the energy received by the body is spent on vision, 40% on digestion and disinfection of food toxins, and only 10% remains on movement, the work of the mental and nervous systems, the fight against billions microbes. If we eat all the time, when will we think ?!

It is useful to eat soups - they improve digestion, metabolism, fill the stomach faster, which gives a feeling of fullness with a smaller amount of food.

5. Sleep, rest … The brain, like the entire human body, needs rest. With physical exertion, rest is a mental activity, with intellectual - physical exercises, from moral fatigue - changing places.

A good rest is a dream. Sleep is the most mysterious state of a person, without sleep a person cannot live, although sleep is called "a little death."

In a dream, consciousness turns off, but the person continues to think, his thinking changes and obeys other laws. This is due to the fact that in a dream, the subconscious comes to the fore. The brain analyzes what happened over the past day, structures it in a new way and gives the most likely outcome. This result, perhaps, was predicted long ago, but consciousness did not accept it, it was pushed into the subconscious and extracted from there in a dream.

It is assumed that the brain can be given an installation for the night: to make a prediction, a decision, a way out, a conclusion, to just have a pleasant dream. Unnecessary impressions, an obsessive state are "washed away by the night protective wave" of the brain. People who constantly have prophetic dreams are most likely good analysts.

6. Addictive … The brain cannot instantly adapt to drastically changed alien circumstances: new living conditions, new work, study, place of residence, company, food, new people. Enter any activity gradually, calmly, getting used to it. Every day, doing the most you can, you will achieve the impossible. The habit of learning and working is developed gradually and constantly. Sudden understanding and insight always presupposes knowledge, it may not always be fully conscious.

Often parents, teachers, bosses, loved ones (and sometimes we ourselves), not understanding all the complexity of addiction, demand from us (and we from others) an instant result. It doesn't work that way. It is best not to start, calm down, good-naturedly say to yourself or others - not all at once, "wait, kids, just give a time, you will have a squirrel, there will be a whistle." And slowly start moving, accelerating as you get used to.

The brain itself creates stereotypes (habits, skills, conditioned reflexes). Stereotypical thinking greatly helps to live - no need to re-solve standard problems. Every day, performing the same actions, we turn them into a habit, a skill, a skill, a conditioned reflex. Not turning on the brain to secrete saliva at the sight of a lemon, close the front door, the tap, wash the dishes, flinch from the sharp beep of the car, click the cross when you need to close the program window.

Instinct and a little life experience make us, from childhood, create stereotypes of friends, foes, lovers. It helps in the “sea of people” to choose someone, to gather your team and stop there, freeing up time and energy for other life goals. Stereotypes help to communicate with strangers, get along with parents, raise their children.

6. Liberty … Even if it is limited by the instinct of self-preservation and social rules that are useful in the first place to ourselves. Freedom is independence from fears and stereotypes. Of course, we need stereotypes in the form of unconditioned and conditioned reflexes - we will not, having burned ourselves, stick our hand into the fire a second time - it hurts! But if circumstances require you to show your contempt for pain and death - burn your right hand, like the Roman "military" Muzio Scovola. And not be afraid to think in your own way and in a new way; defend your way of thinking, your life, your appearance, your loved ones. And do not blame the whole world for misunderstanding and non-recognition of you "all that extraordinary." And allow others to be different from you, to have their own way of thinking, outlook on life.

7. Creation - the ability of the brain, using and relying on the old, to create a new, its own, dissimilar. Creativity is a favorite work of the brain, making us akin to God, making us gods. Creativity in the form of science studies, describes, explains the world around and a person, puts forward ideas, finds ways and means of translating them into life, looks into the future and is ready to change it for the better.

Creativity in the form of art - combining labor and emotions, it reflects reality in artistic images. Art unites people: the writer, sharing his life, feelings, describing other people, shows that we are not alone in our experiences. The artist offers to look at how the environment, we ourselves can be beautiful or ugly. The musician, with the sounds of his heart, makes our soul respond with a tuning fork.

Art awakens our imagination, enriches our inner world, helps to see the world in a different light. Art creates ideals.

8. Sharing, seeding, chatting, hugging … Life is constant cell division, constant metabolism and distribution of information. The work of the nerve cells of the brain of neurons is "love". They constantly "embrace", touching dendrites (processes, "hands") to each other, constantly transmit energy (nerve impulses) information about everything (biochemical compounds). It is harmful not to share, you cannot demand, it is confusing. You need to be friends with your head, you need to be friends with people.

This is the essence of the brain - it constantly needs to receive information and give it back.

The brain does not like

1. Fear … Depressing, suppressing life processes emotion. When we feel fear, the instinct of self-preservation takes over, areas of the brain, groups of nerve cells cannot be included in mental activity. A person is deprived of creative thought.

We are constantly worried about food, about loved ones, about pain (illness, betrayal, death) about life (war, tsunami, fool-boss, revolutions, dollar rate, meeting with a terminator) - i.e. we are under stress. How to deal with it:

• Pain and death must be despised.
• Difficulties, if they cannot be avoided, must be tempered. In overcoming difficulties you lose something, but you definitely gain something.
• To cultivate courage, pride and resilience.
• We must boldly admit to ourselves that problems and troubles are inevitable companions of human life. They are not the first or the last to be addressed.
• Believe in yourself and in your bright future, you are the problem, not she is you!

Fear is dangerous to mental health and life. But one adaptive form of fear we need is caution!

2. Strong emotions of any kind … Strong emotions dramatically inhibit the thinking ability of the brain. Great joy and great sorrow can temporarily deprive you of the ability to think. Long-term such condition leads to a painful helplessness of the brain.

Girls, this is for you. When you are "hysterical" (overly emotional), your brain shuts down. This made it possible to say "Women are fools!" But it has already been proven that the female and male brains are equally capable of education, social adaptation, and politics.

Different hormones affect neurology - men are more likely to have dyslexia, schizophrenia, and autism. And the fair sex suffer from anxiety, depression, eating disorders. Therefore, do not impose this state on your men - it literally makes them fools.

In men, logical thinking, not including the parts of the brain responsible for emotions, men calmly solve the problem. In women, on the contrary, the thinking is katatim, i.e. they solve the problem through the prism of conflicting emotions. This is their physiology, they cannot do otherwise. Guys, are you sick of this too? There is a way out: help them calm down: "smack, smack", "hold the ice cream", "let me warm the seagulls", "so calm down! I will solve your problem, let's go, take a walk, think about it”and so on. etc. The main idea: "I love you, but we will solve the problem when you calm down." And you will be surprised how a woman can handle everything perfectly.

The mechanism of emotions - first understanding (situations, phenomena), then emotions. But do we always correctly understand the situation, another person, if we wander in three pines, we do not really understand ourselves. First, you should calmly sort it out, and only then "emotional".

3. Darkness, loneliness … Such conditions include the instinct for self-preservation. The usual sources of cerebral tone decrease and the "dark forces" of negative emotions roam more freely in the unprotected brain (an enemy lurks in the dark; a person is a herd creature, he alone is dangerous and scary).

Loneliness is a severe mental condition associated with negative emotions and discomfort. But loneliness will have a beneficial effect on a person if you perceive it as voluntary solitude. A lack of communication cannot be a disaster if a person has contact, understanding with at least someone. Perhaps in this world you are just a person, but for someone you are the whole world.

Drop unnecessary stereotypes, give any of your states the correct names that support you, soothe, carry the energy you need.

4. Stereotypes … The brain creates stereotypes, but also “bored” them. The brain fights stereotypes for self-preservation "I want to think!" The brain reacts to every change in the external and internal environment.

There are people who, after spending some time on developing basic life or professional skills (ideally all of them in childhood and adolescence), bring them to automatism, can carry them out, allowing the brain at this time to solve more complex or creative tasks (cook - cook, driver - ace, draftsman - artist, engineer - inventor, layout designer - designer)

Stereotypes destroy our relationships with people: with friends, with colleagues, with children, parents, lovers, when they behave contrary to our stereotypes. Do not be afraid to abandon old ideas about people. Create new stereotypes based on new data (“don't persist in stupidity!”). Let people change, be different. And calmly and firmly, do not allow other people's stereotypes about you to be imposed on you if you do not need it.

Never fear anything, your treasure is with you, your most reliable friend is your brain!

Take care of your treasure, study it, remember, the brain has reserves - but these are reserves. You can force the brain to work in an extreme mode, but the adaptive capacity will be exhausted. This also explains the excessively early and intensive development of children and their subsequent problems with adaptation in society.

The article was prepared on the basis of various sources, among which I would especially like to highlight the book of our contemporary, our compatriot, a great woman and a great scientist, academician, founder of the Institute of the Brain, Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva. The book is called "The Magic of the Brain and the Labyrinths of Life."

The article does not claim to be complete, but is intended to spur your interest in the brain. The described things (what the brain loves and what does not) I felt on my own experience, and when I started reading about the brain, I was convinced that science is on my side:). Take your time to read about the brain. This time will pay off when you can properly configure your main work tool.

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