Every morning you wash your body and your teeth and put on clean clothes… but your hard working brain picked up more debris than your body, hair or teeth but I bet you didn’t give it any love and care? Learn how to rinse your brain every morning.
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Hi. It’s John Paul Fischbach, the Chief Alchemist here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator. This week’s Hot Tip Tuesday is about washing your brain. The other morning in the shower I had a thought. Most of us liked to start our day fresh and clean. We washed our body. We washed our teeth but there’s one thing that we’d love to be fresh and clean each day and that’s our brain. We dont really wash our brain do we?
Washing our brain is called meditation. A morning meditation is the new breakfast of champions. I’m going to talk about one specific type of meditation. Focus meditation or mindful meditation which is where you focus on one specific thing. That could be your breathing, a sensation in your body or a particular object. The point of this type of meditation is to focus strongly on one point and continually bring your attention back to that focal point when it wanders and it will.
Why start your day with a meditation? Because that’s how you can wash your brain. We all know how to take a four minute shower right? But you get way more benefit from a four minute meditation. There’s a whole bunch of benefits but there is two that I want to share because they worked for me.
The first is better focus. Focusing our attention and being aware when it drifts this actually improves our focus when we’re not meditating. The second benefit is less anxiety because we’re actually loosening the connections of a particular neuro pathway in the ‘me’ center. Technically not the ‘me’ center but it’s the medial prefrontal cortex. We want to loosen this connection because the ‘me’ center is the part that processes information relating to ourselves and our experiences. Normally the neuro pathways that run from the body sensations and the fear centers of the brain to the me center are really strong.
For example when you experience a scary or upsetting sensation it triggers a strong reaction in your ‘me’ center making you feel scared and feel like you’re under attack. When we meditate we weaken this neuro connection. This means that we dont react as strong to sensations that might once have lit up our me centers and pulled our focus and taken us down the lack, fear, scarcity and desperation hole. You wash your body and you wash your teeth every day. What about starting the day washing your mind.
There’s a couple of quick ways to get started if you’ve never meditated. I suggest headspace.com, zen12.com or OmHarmonics.com. All three of them are really quick, simple ways to get you started.
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that is really good to be reminded of!
Great video tip!! I’ve been using binaural beats as a tool for meditating every night before bed and then I wake up early in the morning and do it then before getting up. I’ve found hemi sinc by the Monroe institute the best. For reprogramming paradigms etc, i’ve been using theta binaurals. You must use headphones for it to work both hemispheres of the brain. Otherwise, Isochronic tones are good if you have really good HD quality speakers. I’ve been doing meditation this way for about 4mths now, and I can’t begin to describe how effective it is. So much clarity in almost every situation, creativity is flowing through me. Things have suddenly started changing for the better. I hope sharing this helps more people. 🙂
I have been a meditator for many years and the practise has changed.
Struggling at first (30 years ago) with staying focused, I now enjoy the fun of starting with a premise while deep breathing. I say that no matter what happens I am here to have fun. It varies bu the intention is the same.
I am smiling, I feel joyful and that morning warm-up prepares me for a fabulous day every day. If I stay in that openness as I move through my art practice, communication becomes easier, I feel I struggle less with the marketing end of my art and the unexpected meeting with a stranger interested in purchasing art is starting to become a more frequent occurrence.
Mishaps happen but it’s just a reminder of an opportunity to be more aware.
Avalyn