WELCOME TO THE

WORKSHOP ON USING BRAIN

SCIENCE TO PEAK PERFORMANCE

Shhankar Ganesh

July 6,2013

INTRODUCTION TO BRAIN,MIND AND RELATIONSHIPS

8 BEST WAYS OF EXERCISING YOUR BRAIN

Neuro Plasticity of brain

INTRODUCTION TO MINDFUL BRAIN

CYCLE OF EXCELLENCE(PART)

INTRODUCTION TO FEEL GOOD HORMONES

Why neuro science

• Our ability to know our own minds as well as to sense the inner world of others may be singular human talent , the key to nurturing healthy minds and hearts.

• We can Scientifically ground the psychological and spiritual tools for our self healing and well being and improve human relationship.

WHERE IS HERE?????

We all have MAP of the world in our heads

Our MAP is updated through our senses.

We each take in information through a natural preferred combination of senses (called modalities) :

See

Auditory

Touch-Kinesthetic / Tactile

Smell

Taste

MAPSMaps are the Neuro circuit that gets fired in the brain until we are familiar with the objects/situation

We use Maps to identify anything and everything in the world which we perceive as Real

How Mind MAP

I am the figment of my Imagination -I MAP

You are the figment of my Imagination-YOU MAP

I am the figment of your Imagination –ME MAP

IMAGINATION

What is Imagination

• It is a artificial constructions of world which we think we are perceiving

• Dendritic confabulation of world which is Inner reality.

• It is far removed from Outer Reality as far as one possibly get

Objective Reality VS Subjective Reality

All that we are experiencing in our minds are the maps which we have created which we hold in the working memory of our frontal lobe for 30 seconds or less

How Many Colours you see?

Structure of Neurons

• Working from home

• Working offsite

• Technology requirements

Every Human brain is Unique and Very creative

Hand Model of Brain

Dr.Dan Siegel’s definition of ―mind‖ -

• “A core aspect of the mind can be defined as an

embodied and relational process that regulates the

flow of energy and information.”

• Regulatory function

• Monitor and Modify the energy flow by observing and change the flow by directing our attention

W? Traingle of Well Being

RELATIONSHIP

MIND

ENERGY AND INFORMATION

FLOW

BRAIN

Mind

Conscious Mind

• We are aware of.

• Part that is doing the task

• Our Brain is not capable of Multi tasking

Sub conscious

• It is one layer deeper. We install Science,MathsMaths,Scicen Skills like Driving, Operating Instruments and Playing and instrum Auto Pilot

Unconscious Mind

• It is sending trillions of impulses to a hundred trillion cells e t Trillio cells within very fraction of a second. Breathing, Bigesting,wDigesting,Walking and Growth of Muscles and tissues

FLOW OF DATA/INFORMATION

Schematic of the Six layered Cortical Column and the Bottom -up and top-down flow of Information

Layers TOP-Down Top-Down Top Down

Dominance

1

2

3

AWARNESS

4

5 Visceral Maps

6 Data

Ghut Feeling

Bottom-Up Bottom-Up Bottom-Up Dominance

New Environment

Intelligence operating at Molecular level-(Inside our body)

Exercising your Brain

Eight Ways to enhance your Physical,Mental and Spiritual Health

8. Smile7.Stay Intellectually Active6. Consciously Relax –Centring Exercise5.Yawn4.Meditate3.Aerobic Exercise2.Dialogue with Others1.Faith

Faith Comprises of three components of Subjective Energies

– Desire

– Belief

– Expectancy

Placebo

Nocebo

Pilot Jesica

What is Mindfulness-Mindful brain

• Mindfulness is deliberately paying

full attention to what is happening

around you and within you –in your

body,heart,and mind.

• Mindfulness is awareness without

criticism or judgment.

Mindfulness

• We get around 60,000 thoughts in a day and • 90% of the thoughts are same as previous day• Thoughts are the result of thinking• Silence enable us to connect to intelligence • You get inspired thoughts which may be the result of primal cause• You intentionally focus your mind to achieve goals• Intention is the precursor to thoughts

Mindful brain Exercise

• Eating Mindfully

• Leaving no traces in the Bathroom

• Telephone Meditation

• Mindful driving

• Mindful walking

What happens inside the brain of a Meditator

Dr.Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman

Neuroplasticity of Brain

• Neurogenesis- Stimulation of Neurons for growth

• Myelinogenesis=Talent code

• Synaptogeneisis=Reducing Refractory period between firing and resting of neurons

Our Capacity for creating new neural connections and growing neurons in response to experience

Myelin Sheath-Talent code

• Jeremy

– His first day

– Mistakes made

– Successes achieved

– The moral of the story

Hormones Create link between the Body and Mind• Managing Stress effectively is more about changing our reaction to stress

than attempting to avoid stressful situations.• Under stress,the body stops making the feel good hormones that keep us

health and happy• Hurried lives create enormous stress even when our physical needs are

being met• Testosterone for Men and Oxytocin , Estrogen , Progressterone for

Women, serotonin ,dopamine are feeling good hormones• Cortisol is stress related hormone .Prolonged elevated cortisol level in

our body is harmful mainly to Neuron growth and activation.• Adrenal glands is switch that triggered by our brain to produce either

feeling good hormones or stress hormone Cortisol• We can change the way stress affects our bodies even if we can’t change

the world

Cycle

• As Stress levels go up,the body releases cortisol

• Elevated Cortisol inhibits fat burning and stimulates sugar burning

• The muscles begin using up sugar

• Blood sugar levels begin to drop

• The brain orders you to eat more sugar

• More cortisol is released to stabilize the fluctuating blood

• The cycles begins again

Silence is not an absence of sound; it is the presence of meaning,In an age of increasing electronic chatter —24x7 television, mobile phones, Twitter, SMSs — “getting the silent bits right” is becoming more and more difficult. And, for that reason, more and more necessary.

• Be Present mindfully

• Meditate for 20 minutes a day

• Understand 4M-power (Mind,Meals,Muscle and Motions)

• Drink plenty of water

• Accept people, situations and events as they are, not as you wish they were, in this

moment

• Commune with nature: spend quality time with nature

God grant me the serenity to accept the

things I cannot change; the courage to

change the things I can; and the

wisdom to know the difference.

— REINHOLD NIEBUHR, THE

SERENITY PRAYER