Write Myself Well – Equilibrium

Apparently, my mind wants to remain in what I perceive as limited in capacity.

Me? I want to log the small things that I am trying to focus deeper on for clarity so I can be happy with today’s “normalcy.”

Every bit of me wants “fast and easy” change, so I will log my time to prove to myself that I am getting fast and easy solutions by consistently focusing with repetition on things that I feel are important to resolve.

For this to work, I think that I need to consistently: 1.) Find interesting ways for my supportive friends, family and care team members to find mutually beneficial ways to fuel my efforts; 2.) Trying to inspire my body and mind and body to remain grateful/motivated/disciplined, and 3.) Monitor/manage my body’s release of dopamine.

I believe that I need to discover how my body releases its limited resource of dopamine and how it can best recycles/replenishes the dopamine.

Write Myself Well – Limited Capacity

What limits capacity? Can I stimulate my sense by paying attention to them more in repetitious ways? Let’s say I can only memorize “x” or pay attention to an amount equivalent to “y”. Can the area of x and/or y be used faster, focus with deeper clarity or exist in a different way if I pay more to my senses?

Withdrawing awareness and knowing what to withdraw awareness from and exhaustion of stimulation. Now, those are some topics that interest me.

How to Accomplish More Every Day!

 

I’m a believer that the most critical thing I can do is be mindful of my evening routine.

By the time evening rolls around for most people, they don’t have a lot left to give. They get up, get ready for work, get the kids off to school, work all day, take the kids to afterschool activities, deal with chores around the house like cooking and laundry. The evening is either a time to continue working or a time to collapse in a heap.

Before I made the decision to be mindful of my evening routine, I did pretty much all of that. I worked hard all day, and very often would continue to work all evening until I simply didn’t have anything left to give. I said that I wanted to do other things. I thought about how I wanted to diet or exercise or do things just for my own self improvement, even just my own pleasure. I put them off, though. I kept telling myself that I could do all that, just later. I would start tomorrow.

So, what’s the difference now? Now that I’ve made the decision to be mindful of my limited time, by deciding that it is important to me that I have an evening routine, I don’t tell myself that I’ll try again tomorrow. I make the choice to take care of myself each evening.

No, the evenings aren’t extensions of the day. They are my time to invest  in myself, to set the stage for my unconscious to take over as I sleep. It goes into high gear, repairing itself and relaxing, accepting the changes

I am consciously trying to invite it to grab onto.

An example? Prior to going to sleep, I spritz my pillow with a very pleasant orange and grapefruit scent. I know it’s there and I’ve taken care to place it there.

Another example? Reading or writing about healing for at least 30 minutes before bed.

I feel that I have better rest when I am mindful of what I am doing before I fall asleep.

Puzzles can lead to numerous health benefits including increased life-expectancy?!?!

 

“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” Doug Horton

To reinforce my short-term visual memory so that I can have a fighting chance for healing my brains ability to remember something seen very recently I am focusing on manipulating one of two puzzles and a series of Lumosity games.

“Research backing the provider of UK’s largest selection of jigsaw puzzles shows that using jigsaws to keep the mind active can lead to numerous health benefits including increased life-expectancy. ” http://www.prlog.org/11727889-health-benefits-of-jigsaw-puzzles-revealed.html

I need to look at these web pages:
http://www.ldonline.org/article/25152/
http://www.all-about-jigsaw-puzzles.com/solve-jigsaw-puzzle.html.

Can raise my mental capacity by raising my self-esteem?

“We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more then we think we are worth.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant

All I need to do is know more about things that are worthy and valuable to myself and to others.
Sounds simple enough, yes?

Rotation Matrix on Lumosity

Lumosity challenged me by rotating my matrix. Now that’s very good for my mind!

Video: Rotation-Matrix-2012-08-26

What can the brain be trained to exaggerate?

Can the use of color in this Lumosity game, Color Match, be training my brain to exaggerate what it sees so it can perceive distinctions in information more?

 

I wondered this after reading this quote, “[O]ur brains [can be] trained to exaggerate the distance between shades of color if these have different names in our language.” from Color Plays Musical Chairs In the Brain, by Megan Erickson.

I hope so.