Jamie Oliver in ‘Chef’s Table, The Legends’ currently showing on Netflix, had me both in tears and in goosebumps when he ferociously squeezed lemons between his hands – juice and pips flying all over – while saying: ‘This is just how my brain learns’.
How do you spend your work breaks? Scrolling through your phone in the pause area? Eating mindlessly at your desk? Or do you push on without taking any breaks? How we spend our work breaks, is as important, if not more important, than how we work.
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The definition of a sensory threshold is how quickly and intensely we register information. And that is exactly what learning is.
‘One cannot study the structure of the eye and deny the existence of God.’
Opening lines used by my Anatomy and Opthalmology professors respectively, and it certainly got me paying attention, processing, and remembering.
The sensory brain (AKA. the reptillian brain) is concerned with those unconscious, knee-jerk responses to environmental sensory stimuli.
I hope you feel restored, renewed, and ready for a happy and fulfilling new year. If you feel slightly flat, self-activation is possible.
Most of us were raised with the misconception that academic success was for the brainy, “the smart”. In fact, the process of studying is a sensory task.
The topical subject of suffering from ‘Future Shock’ is a critical theme to explore, sooner rather than later.
Future Shock refers to our realities changing faster than what we can process.
Many Polyvagal Theorists are in broad terms involved with the brain and body’s response in different situations – and talk about ‘Outside, Inside, and Between’. This refers to the very real and very profound impact of the Outside world, on our Inside world, with the aim to achieve balance between these two realities.