I hope you feel restored, renewed, and ready for a happy and fulfilling new year. If you feel slightly flat for some reason, self-activation is possible if you understand basic sensory science, and your own unique sensory needs.
The balance between habituation and sensitization is the key, it results in optimal activation by reaching your unique bang-on-point-performance-band. What a gift for the new year!
We all need more of certain sensory experiences our brains ‘habituate’ too easily to. This means our brains make these sensations a habit, no longer responding to them, leaving us feeling under-activated, distracted, demotivated, or ‘flat’.
We all need less of certain other sensory experiences our brains automatically ‘sensitize’ to, meaning the nervous system pays particular attention to these sensations, over-responding to them. This is helpful on some level (e.g. when studying or learning), but at the same time result in stress, hyper-vigilence, overload, and fatigue.
We can fine-tune activation for peek performance, simply through the resting and restoring of our most sensitive sensory systems, and the nourishing and activation of our most seeking sensory systems. To be able to do this we need to know and understand which is which.
Have your sensory style assessed this year, and make the neuroscience of ‘my-brain-has-made-this-environment-a-boring-habit’ or, ‘my-brain-is-too-sensitive-in-this-environment’ part of your productivity and wellness toolkit for life. It is the science behind wellbeing while achieving.
