Have you ever hit the ground running in all directions at once for another busy day? Forget where you are driving midway? Feel overwhelmed by information, people, to-do lists and increasing demands for your attention?
The overwhelmed brain plays havoc with your short term memory – the very tool you need to calmly pick your way through new situations. The short term memory tools – which ensure more success at new challenges, slogs through traffic jams instead, and instead of new neuron pathways to innovation, you experience stressful dead end roads.
So how do you cope? When feelings of overwhelmed wipe out your enjoyment and gains at new adventures, such as an Online learning course with many new demands from technology?
1. Whistle while you work.
Don't let yourself be pulled into stress that overwhelms. Instead use music to add zip to your day and jack up your productivity. Did you know that the brain can be calmed, inspired or focused on a task for greater creativity – through the music you play in the background? Check it out and then listen to rhythms that lift you beyond demands that distract.
2. Drink more water.
Doctors increasingly warn that we need to irrigate the brain to keep it running at full throttle. How so? Dr. F Balmanghelidj found that water is especially powerful as a nutrient that generates energy and works against overwhelming patterns that slow us down. That's good news if you consider the price tag or side effects of many drugs by comparison
3. Let laughter remove anxiety that adds new challenges.
Laughter takes the stress from Online challenges, for instance, because it generates enzymes in the brain. Joel Goodman, director of the Humor project, showed in an interview how he mixes laughter with play and he too calls for far more. On the job, I’ve noticed that laughter works best when we laugh first at ourselves. That way others sense our respect, and so more come away with reasons to laugh, in our busy circles.
4. See mistakes as stepping stones to your goal.
When we find a way to look beyond an ordinary mistake – and when we reflect on growth possibilities rather than fear mistakes - we often see new opportunities for success. Author, Henry Link showed why this is so... While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Observe how the most successful people you know capitalize on the brain power of a stress free mind, and then simply do more of what they do in a day to prevent becoming overwhelmed.
5. Operate on all eight cylinders rather than on any one alone. Start by using your strengths and you’ll find yourself moving away from ruts that trap the overwhelmed. Check out how to use several intelligences to enhance the project you are doing at the moment, and your brain will add more intelligence to help you progress in calm and yet energized ways. Start one step at a time and you’ll draw far more acumen from your own mental cache than you can reach in any state of panic.
The human brain holds amazing tools that work against ruts that come to the overwhelmed. Determination is not enough though, because to stay overwhelmed or panicked can lead you into more serious places of depression. Luckily, new research helps us to move beyond myths about the brain, and to rewire our brains to create a state of flow or peak performance - from the problems that hold us back to solutions that move us forward – one step at a time.
Today’s workplace may hurl new information at times faster than the speed of light. New demands still bombard us at times, faster than we can muster attention. And yet, while the overwhelmed brain clogs any chance for high performance like a traffic jam slows progress – a few well selected smart skills can prevent your brain from stalling when you need it most.
Why remain in ruts that trap the overwhelmed? Why not look instead, at one morning or an afternoon from your brain’s perspective and see how your brain is hardwired to respond to anxiety in remarkable ways that can increase performance. Try these few tips and you’ll add serotonin to meet overwhelming situations because your hippocampus will leap to your rescue.
Did you know your brain is rewired for panic or progress daily - based on what you do to respond to stressors on the previous day? What do you think?
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Have you ever hit the ground running in all directions at once for another busy day? Forget where you are driving midway? Feel overwhelmed by information, people, to-do lists and increasing demands for your attention?
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