EMOTIONS AND THE BRAIN In their search for understanding how the brain works neuroscientists discovered emotions. And it turns out that emotions play a big role. They are necessary to thinking and decision-making and are in general much more important than we used to believe. In our Western culture environment, which highly values analytical and [...]
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Leadership Message From A Maestro
September 15, 2018 – Posted in: Emotional Intelligence, NeuroscienceWatching an orchestra rehearse and a conductor interact with the ensemble, manage and lead, provides a powerful analogy of leadership skills and behaviors. This parallel has been mentioned in various writings on leadership. In addition, it’s even been used in an executive education course case study offered by such prestigious schools as Harvard in Boston [...]
Be at Your Best All the Time with Emotional Intelligence
August 4, 2018 – Posted in: Emotional Intelligence, NeuroscienceYou are motivated and hardworking but sometimes in some situations, something is off, or you feel off. It’s not that you don’t know what to do, you do know what to do, but somehow, you’re just not able to pull yourself together to do what you need to do, to do what you know [...]
What happens to your brain when you “flip your lid”?
February 20, 2015 – Posted in: Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Positive PsychologyDr. Siegel has a unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts exciting and easy to understand and here he is explaining that “flip”. Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the founding co-director [...]
New Year Resolutions – Can Flow Help Us Achieve Our Goals?
January 11, 2015 – Posted in: Life Balance, Neuroscience, Positive PsychologyBeing in the zone, experiencing flow, is this awesome state where we feel at our best and perform at our best. In this state we are so fully engaged and absorbed with the task at hand that all else falls away and our performance goes through the roof. Wouldn’t it be great to be able [...]
Starved for time? Overwhelmed? Here is how to recharge
November 21, 2014 – Posted in: Emotional Intelligence, Life Balance, Mindfulness, NeuroscienceThe Holiday season often brings us more time pressures, with additional family and social obligations and activities. So instead of enjoying the holidays we end up stressed out and scramble to juggle it all. This makes me wonder why do we always feel starved for time? It seems that we have all forgotten how [...]