My brain started processing information differently as I was in recovery from PTSD. My brain cells are not regenerating so much as they are remapping. Still and all, healing is slow. I am doing amazing things, I am just not very fast at it. No worries. Speed comes with time and practice. What used to take me months now takes days. We have seen an amazing evolution in my conversational ability these last three years. I still struggle to think and talk on my feet, but I do okay with common curtesy and simple explanations...
The podcast script, some commentary for my classmates, and an additional tie-in for alpha waves.
https://nannymaroon.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/affliction-to-alpha-waves-retrain-the-brain/ Even after that, I found another piece to the puzzle: Alpha Brain Waves Boost Creativity and Reduce Depression https://t.co/98t1w7HpqA I believe this is the connection that turns my brain-building process into a self-perpetuating loop. Once I have used pleasurable music to generate alpha waves, I have the biochemicals needed to do it again...
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9/14/2018 0 Comments Storyline: GroundingAs I was in a discussion with Jamaica... I got distracted thinking about the photo in relation to reality (flashbacks & integration). Our corporate president, however, called my attention away from the memories (blessup). "blessup" can be a greeting or a call to worship in Rastafari. i am treating it as both So I went to his page and loved his grateful share... ... noticing that today is his birthday (Thankz mi artists). "thankz mi artists" is Jamaican patois that translates to "thanks to singers who support me" This grounded me and brought me back to the task-at-hand: developing a lesson. I realize I can acknowledge his stabilizing presence in my life by liking the comment "The man had my attention: body, mind and soul." Although the quote is being taken out of context when I do this, it is now reframed from that moment in Jamaica eight years ago and associated with our corporate president's constructive and commanding presence today. This allows me to focus and realize I have created the material needed to design an illustrated lesson about how we generate our storylines and build something beautiful while being here for each other. In so doing, we keep ourselves moving forward while providing our Facebook friends with a good example of positive and productive online interpersonal behavior. Now, do you see how we create storylines in social media? When the comments are inverted, they read as a testimony of my attention to the reggae minister, Jah Lightning, his gratitude to singers supporting him, blessings to fans and other people who believe in Rastafari, "4eva" = forever, "blessup" = worship, with me donning a scarf before prayer as an endorsement of the behavior. It's similar to the "call-and-response" between a preacher and congregation that can be heard in some churches. SIDELINE STORYLINE* Flashbacks, grounding, and integration are all psychological terms used to explain PTSD symptoms, coping skills, and the healing process. *Disclaimer: This is personal experience, not medical advice.
9/1/2018 0 Comments rhythms of attentionDREAM: Background music is non-engaging distraction that does not produce alpha waves. It is there to allow work to be done.  "This research makes it clear that while humans spend so much time in search of hyper-focus, it’s likely an unachievable goal. Thousands of years of the struggle for survival have wired us to be distracted. Maybe it’s time to embrace it as a fundamental part of life." Betuel, E. (2018). Scientists reveal the number of times you're actually conscious each minute. Spoiler: It's not very often (and that's a good thing). https://www.inverse.com/article/48300-why-is-it-hard-to-focus-research-humans RESEARCH REVEALS Four times every second, explains Princeton Neuroscience Institute Ian Fiebelkorn, Ph.D., to Inverse, the brain stops focusing on the task at hand. That’s about 240 times a minute. “The brain is wired to be somewhat distractible,” he says. “We focus in bursts, and between those bursts we have these periods of distractibility, that’s when the brain seems to check in on the rest of the environment outside to see if there’s something important going on elsewhere. These rhythms are affecting our behavior all the time” (i.e. rhythms of attention). PERSONAL OBSERVATION During "rhythm of attention" cycles when my "brain stops taking snapshots of individual points of focus (whatever is in front of me at the moment)," I am giving my brain brackground reggae music as an alternative focal point upon which my mind stitches together a narrative of the complete experience, be it Storytelling for Social Media promotion or analysis' and interpretations of academic information. This is why my most productive times are in the very early hours of the day when people are asleep and there is virtually no other sound and movement. When someone brings any topic, including sex, into the discussion, it becomes part of the narrative, changing the tone of the experience. NOTA BENE
It takes me 72 hours to process new information that results in a paradigm shift significant enough to change my perception of reality regarding my personal mental, emotional and physiological processes. This time line is consistent with a biochemical change such as detoxing from drugs. Do you think the physiology is similar between the two? |
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