How being obese effects the Brain
Obesity has become a major public health concern in most developed countries, and is causing a major problem in a lot of companies across the globe. The last 16 years have witnessed an alarming increase in obesity by about 32% in adults and 40% children. The tendency of patients of normal weight and with damage in the hypothalamus of the brain to gain excessive weight has led to the conclusion that the brain controls gain and loss of weight. The underlying cause or causes of obesity are generally thought to lie in abnormal regulation by the brain circuits that control appetite and satiety.
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Frank Pucelik describes some of the early days of NLP
The is a transcript of an interview with
Frank Pucelik
{Frank Pucelik} The first three years of NLP were not called NLP, they were called Meta which I think is the real name and is still the name that makes sense as far as I’m concerned. Basically it was
John (Grinder), Richard (Bandler), myself, and those 7-8 other people trying to figure out how the hell, people that were really good at doing stuff, did it. What are they doing?
What are they doing really, not what did they say they’re doing because most of the time that’s not it. What is the critical behavior, critical observation, and critical reaction to that observation? What’s really doing the magic? Every time we studied models whether it was mathematics, physics, or psychotherapy or whether it was Virginia Satir (American author and psychotherapist) or whatever… We kept coming up with the fact that 90% to 95% of what those people was smoke. It was a waste of time, you didn’t need it, because it was context that gave them the opportunity to make a particular observation, right?
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What team building is and isn't
Team building is a way of helping members of an office, group or an organization learn how to better work together through doing a series of exercises that promote teamwork. These usually consist of specialized tasks or other events where the group must work together to get a positive outcome.
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What are emotions?
Emotion can be defined as understanding of an event inside our mind and subsequent arousal of subjective feeling. Initiation of emotions within us then control the way we behave towards the event followed by physiological changes. Happiness, sadness, hatred, care and trust are only some of the numerous emotions that dwell within us.
Types of Emotions:
Emotions are mainly classified into two categories, namely,
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Primary emotions are those which are set off in response to an incident. Pride in your parents’ heart on the day your graduate from university is an apt example of a primary emotion.
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Secondary emotions are a cluster of emotions which spark within us as a consequence of a primary emotion. After you catch your beloved in somebody else’s arms, a rush of anger flows through your body followed by sadness and fear to lose your love. Therefore for example, sadness and fear are the secondary emotions evoked due to anger.
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Erickson's influences and things/people he influenced
Milton Hyland Erickson was an American psychiatrist who specialized in the clinical hypnosis field and also conducted therapy for families. He was born Dec. 5, 1901 in Arum, Nevada and died March 25, 1980 while in Phoenix, Arizona.
Erickson founded the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, as well as being lauded for what some saw as miracle cures through his use of treatment methods then considered unconventional. He also had much influence in the areas of psychiatry,
neuro-linguistic programming, psychology and several forms of other therapy.
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Using Executive Development to Your Company’s Advantage
Executive development is the processes of helping the head people in your organization develop their skills and competence levels in order to become better in their jobs.
Why is executive development important?
Whereas most companies have programs in place to train and develop the people who work in their organizations, many neglect to provide the same sort of training and development of their executive level personnel. Large corporations or companies may have a separate executive training program in place, or their main headquarters may offer something for them, but many have nothing at all in place to train or develop these important figures in their organization.
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A transcription of John Grinder discussing 'parts'
You’re asking ‘is there is a positive intention behind attempting to committing suicide?’ And my client Percy says, “No, I just want to be dead.” And you go, “what would you get if you had that or what is the intention of being dead?” Percy replies, “Oh to escape, this is an intolerable way to live?”
So there’s the “intention of intention”, now do you consider that a positive intention, “yeah I get to escape all this crap”… Good, there’s the positive intention, now you can work with it or you can work without it….. I have got to tell you a story, this will make you laugh.
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Article on types of memory and forgetfulness
All of us encounter with millions of events and sensations every day. They are encoded in our brain and stored, according to their value in our life, for being recalled when necessary. This ability of the brain to share previously recorded information is known as memory.
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An article understanding the importance of good sleep
Sleep is the temporary state of unconsciousness indispensable for every human being after a long day of work. After a good night of sleep, one wakes up with a newly found vigour to start their day. Judging by our apparent state of inactiveness during sleep, most of us believe that sleep is that point of time when the brain takes rest after a whole day of hard work. But this is not at all the case! Electrophysiological trials have proved that sleep is specific brain wave criteria and comprise of a series of explicitly controlled brain states governed by a group of brain stem nuclei. Infants have a high requirement of 17 hours of sleep daily. This decline to 7-8 hours in case of adults and as one approaches old age, sleep becomes even lighter. A night of insufficient sleep leaves us restless for the entire day, creating a “sleep debt” and it should to be repaid in the following days for proper functioning of our mind and body.
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An article on self-image, self-esteem and self-perception
How you perceive yourself is perhaps one of the most important parts of your psyche. The problem we continually find with our clients is that is that many people have a negative self-perception – they constantly feel that they are inadequate or inferior to others around them. Self-perception and self-esteem are very important. A lot of the time people’s self-esteem is based on how they think others perceive them, and this of course directly affects how they perceive themselves.
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