The daily to-do list often includes managing multiple deadlines at work while thinking about plans for the family dinner, helping a child with a homework assignment, or assisting an elderly parent. These responsibilities, along with all the others, quickly can fill a day and easily cloud the mind.
When a person becomes anxious or negative, each responsibility can become mentally taxing. When two or more are combined, they can become overwhelming. Whenever the brain freezes from an emotional overload, a good strategy is to step back momentarily and to choose to be at peace.
Making the choice to relax at such a time may initially seem impossible. But, according to Don Joseph Goewey, the author of the Amazon best seller Mystic Cool, making this shift is not that difficult.
"Recovering our peace of mind can be as simple as focusing on our breath for a few moments," said Goewey, a stress elimination expert, "and as our mind clears, to invoke something positive, such as counting our blessings or looking out the window and connecting with the life teeming all around us."
If this is done consistently, according to Goewey, the brain will shift easily to rewire. He said that a change of attitude changes the brain to change a person's life. It's called neuroplasticity.
"The chief factor blocking the brain's capacity to generate a brilliant mind is stress," said Goewey. "Give into stress and the anxiety that causes it and you lose brain power. On the other hand, a dynamically peaceful attitude lights up neural networks that generate a fearless, creative intelligence, making us immune to stress regardless of circumstances. The result is the joy of creative action in which we not only excel, but excel in ways that make work and life intrinsically rewarding."
Transcend Stress and Rewire the Brain
Goewey conducts a TeleWebinar, "Six Weeks To Rewire Your Brain," that helps people transcend stress and rewire their brains in ways that achieve "the good life." Goewey said the good life refers to success at every level of life - work, family and self.
On the Mystic Cool website, Goewey currently is offering his Stress Eraser Contest from which one participant will receive six one-on-one coaching sessions. The contest asks just one question: "Who would I be if I could transcend stress for good?"
All answers must be submitted through the website by midnight March 31, 2010, but Goewey recommends that each person take the time to reflect before answering his question.
"In other words, don't stress over it," laughed Goewey. "By writing and e-mailing the response when in a good frame of mind, the answer might prove personally helpful and could be the one I select to receive the online stress eraser sessions with me."
Goewey has spent three decades helping war refugees, prisoners, patients with life-threatening illnesses and business leaders transcend stress and reach a higher potential. In his book, Goewey combines the latest neuroscience and psychological research with practical spiritual insights, and he explains a proven approach to rewiring the brain. Goewey provides "stress solutions" that unlock the brain's powers to transform work and family life into a rewarding and fulfilling experience.
Helping Child Brain Development
Goewey points out that when parents make the shift in attitude from stress to peace they not only gain in brain power, but they also benefit from the development of their children's brains.
"Neurologically," stated Goewey, "the number one predictor of a child's well being and future success is the parents."
Children model everything, especially a parent's attitude, and attitude is extremely neuroplastic, said Goewey. It shapes brain structure and sets brain chemistry. A parent's positive or negative attitude literally wires a child's brain for success or failure, health or disease, confidence or insecurity, happiness or anxiety.
According to Goewey, a national study in which one thousand children were surveyed reported that the one thing the children wanted most from their parents was for mom and dad not to be so stressed.
"Parents who learn to transcend stress literally help their children realize a better brain," said Goewey. "All of us are capable of making this change in attitude that changes our brain in a way that improves our lives immeasurably. It is not hard to do. Hard is what we get when we don't make this shift."
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