Dr. Evian Gordon’s model of the Brain 1-2-4
where the one guiding principle of the brain is to minimize danger and maximize rewards, two modes in which the brain processes information are – the unconscious and the conscious, and the four processes the brain undertakes are emotions, feelings, thinking, and self regulation create a very interesting opportunity to know and train your brain. While this awareness that feelings, thinking and self-regulation are conscious processes and therefore we should be more mindful of what is going on with them, and take control of the actions and results more often – can definitely improve effectiveness and moods is evident, I am particularly interested in the working of the emotions.
where the one guiding principle of the brain is to minimize danger and maximize rewards, two modes in which the brain processes information are – the unconscious and the conscious, and the four processes the brain undertakes are emotions, feelings, thinking, and self regulation create a very interesting opportunity to know and train your brain. While this awareness that feelings, thinking and self-regulation are conscious processes and therefore we should be more mindful of what is going on with them, and take control of the actions and results more often – can definitely improve effectiveness and moods is evident, I am particularly interested in the working of the emotions.
Emotions are explained, in the Gordon’s model, as the hard-wired reactions we have to the various stimuli around us
. A noise in the bush – as we walk in a jungle on a bright day – makes us alert – rushes blood to the muscles preparing us to run, and dilates our pupils to be able to see more clearly, can be one of the example of the hardwiring we have received over the genetic conditioning from our environment, and our need for safety. The interesting question is - Is there some significant hardwiring that we have developed unconsciously as we have grown in this life...eerie silence in a board meeting, a boss who is pointing his finger animatedly as he talks, colleagues who are murmuring at the coffee machine and become quiet as you approach them. Are there some of these contexts which are unique to me... and get me all stressed up? What gets my goat – perhaps unnecessarily, while I am at work?
. A noise in the bush – as we walk in a jungle on a bright day – makes us alert – rushes blood to the muscles preparing us to run, and dilates our pupils to be able to see more clearly, can be one of the example of the hardwiring we have received over the genetic conditioning from our environment, and our need for safety. The interesting question is - Is there some significant hardwiring that we have developed unconsciously as we have grown in this life...eerie silence in a board meeting, a boss who is pointing his finger animatedly as he talks, colleagues who are murmuring at the coffee machine and become quiet as you approach them. Are there some of these contexts which are unique to me... and get me all stressed up? What gets my goat – perhaps unnecessarily, while I am at work?
Unraveling some of my own ‘hot buttons’ which may be getting me into a panic state, and regulating my reaction to them, could be an interesting exercise ...that may improve my effectiveness at work...and that too from a completely hitherto unknown domain.
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