by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Get Out of Your Own Way is new book by Robert K.Cooper, who specializes in neuroscience studies of human effectiveness.
How does the brain work...?
Well, it basically doesn't like new things. It likes to deal with what it already knows rather than adding new things. It doesn't like change and will argue with you when you want to change. Well, this last statement would infer we have more than one brain. And Cooper feels we do, according to his research.
The brain is a multidimensional organism that interrelates in a very sophisticated way. Primitively the brain exists to aid and protect you. It does that by recording situations, takes into account your take on them and then in the future responds automatically to the decisions you made back then.The brain is presupposed to what is happening right now... to deal with it. It is not as concerned with what is happening with the on-down-the-road vision of the future.
What the brain wants, it wants now… security/opportunity, adventure/being a couch potato, solitude/community. In a way it lives in conflict with itself and can really jerk you around. Its natural, innate function is immediate response to anything.This can be good or bad depending on what is happening. But it is a slave to how you manage it, develop it, by “your” responses to things. You condition it like you train your pet dog or horse.
So Cooper says the secret is to "get out of your own way"... to wisely work with the brain, around it, instead of against it. Get Out of Your Own Way, in a very in-depth way, presents 5 keys to tuning the brain to work to your advantage. A summary of these are:
1. Direction, Not Motion
It's not how busy you are or how fast you're moving, it's how effectively you are advancing in the right direction.
2. Focus, Not Time
It's not how well you plan your time, it's how effectively you put your attention on what matters the most... in advance and as it unexpectedly appears.
3. Capacity, Not Conformity
It's not how good you are at copying others or making incremental improvements, it's how bold you are at unlocking hidden potential--in yourself and others--and applying it in new ways.
4. Energy, Not Effect
It's not how hard you try or how long you work, it's how effortlessly you get more of the right things done.
5. Impact, Not Intentions
It's not how lofty your intentions are or how much you want things to improve, it's how measurable a difference you are making in living your deepest values and achieving your biggest goals.
Within the book, Cooper exposes an interesting discovery with an exhortation..... use your brains, all four of them.
"What we think we're thinking is actually input coming from our other brains." That's why the above can make sense. It is like we have a good brain and one we must contend with.
The four brains are the one in our cranium, we are most familiar with, then the heart brain, the gut brain, and the spine brain.
Historically, the brain favors the head brain but for ingenuity, teamwork, and breakthrough thinking "intellect is the less crucial ingredient, than these other forms of intelligence.” So what do these other brains do that's so important.
According to the Millionaire Mind most "successful intelligence" does not come from our "intellectual brain" in our head, but the ingenuity and other "gut" intelligence we have.
The gut brain... arrayed around the enteric nervous system. (If you are like me you made a fast run to dictionary.com to find what this meant… “enteric” is your intestine area.) It has an "independent spirit in the nervous system" with a built in radar that can read, in the speed of light, all parts of the brain simultaneously. It is so fast it selects stimuli before they appear.
(note Blink, http://www.gladwell.com/blink/ )
Consequently, this highly advanced intuitive featured brain is the one you learn to trust. Those with acclaimed success in their fields appear to excel at this.
The heart brain... affects emotional clarity, emotional balance, creativity and personal and interpersonal effectiveness. In the human fetus, the heart develops before the nervous system and the thinking brain. So the heart has "pulsed" these others coming into existence.Throughout your whole life every heart beat causes instantaneously whole-body communication as a wave of energy flows in blood cells to all parts of the body. The coherence of this system affects the thinking brain dramatically. It is the power generator of rhythmic information patterns.
The heart's electromagnetic field is about 5000 times that of the brain.The heart intuitively reads complex situations. It works 2 million times faster than the cranium brain on what is going on. It establishes a reading on what others feel, and measures that against its own coherents, values and passions. It provides a very practical way to measure truth in a matter. Cooper's advice is to pause and see what your heart says.
The spine... a reliable source of intelligence outside the head.The spinal cord is a hyper-active transporter of information throughout the whole body. When you slump, it affects your senses to work at a positive peak. Your spine in alignment sharpens the whole sense response and sharpens your ability to read situations and your "vibes" affect on others. "Walking tall" increases your intelligence quotient... to be your best self.
More on Robert K. Cooper at:
http://www.robertkcooper.com/
The Bible says that God liked King David because he was a person after His own heart. The Bible uses the word "heart" a lot. (Just for fun go to www.biblegateway.com and type “heart” into “Keyword Search” for the Bible. It is amazing how much "heart" is in the Bible.)
http://www.biblegateway.com/
In Spirit, what is the heart about?
The heart can be deceitful and wicked, according to Jeremiah.
"For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good words from a good heart, and an evil person produces evil words from an evil heart." (Matthew 12:34-35, NLT) Jesus told the religious proud of His day.
But then God said through Ezekiel
"And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their hearts of stone and give them tender hearts instead." (Ezekiel 11:19, NLT)
And He continued,
"get for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31, NLT)
David the songwriter cried from his heart,
"Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me." (Psalm 51:10, NLT)
And through Jeremiah, God again emphasizes,
"They will be my people, and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart and mind to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, promising not to stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me. I will rejoice in doing good to them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land. Just as I have sent all these calamities upon them, so I will do all the good I have promised them. I, the LORD, have spoken!" (Jeremiah 32:37-42, NLT)
As we become One Heart and Mind with ourselves, with God and with others, we can expect this. This is a promise directly from God. It’s a promise we can count on … Absolutely!
Allow God to break the stony, self-centered heart that wants it all and wants it now, and mold into His Heart and mold into the Heart of others molded into the Spirit. Mold into the Spirit that wants, with all His Heart, to do immeasurably Good to you…
Let His Heart heal your broken heart, your distressed heart, your sad heart, your lost-hope heart, your hardened heart, your hatred-filled heart.
This is not a sacrifice but an open door to all of His Great Glory in your life. He “Promises” to not stop doing Good to you. Allow Him to mold you into His Heart so all you say and do produces life-giving fruit, that builds up and encourages. Then you will live with a happy heart.
You can Trust, absolutely, the Heart of God who promises to always do good to you.
We worship Him in ALL ways
because we know He is always initiating His Love to us ... First.
You can do nothing to earn this.
God's Spirit of Love is always running ahead
of you creating new ways to Love you!
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