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Conosci i tuoi limiti? Superali

// aprile 26th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Music@Mente

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Quali sono i limiti oltre i quali non ci possiamo spingere? Cosa c’è oltre la curva?

Un bambino di, supponiamo 4 anni sale su un tavolo alto 1,2 mt da terra: vuole saltare… l’adulto di turno in quel momento (genitore, tutore, educatore, etc..), si precipita verso il bambino e, con molto tatto gli spiega che se salta si farà male: non deve saltare da lì.

La domanda è: ma quell’adulto è proprio sicuro che quel bambino non è in grado di saltare da lì? Come fa a saperlo? E se quel bambino dovesse avere un talento speciale come saltatore? In realtà l’adulto non lo può sapere, ma di fatto quel bambino acquisirà l’informazione come un suo limite: non è in grado di saltare da lì. L’adulto, suo malgrado forse, ma ha effettuato una installazione nella mente di quel bambino.

I nostri limiti, intendo quelli che percepiamo tali, sono in gran parte frutto proprio di esperienze tipo quella su descritta.

Tali esperienze generano i cosiddetti paradigmi. I paradigmi sono una serie di credenze, regole e regolamenti (scritti o non scritti) che generano due cose in noi:
1) stabiliscono e/o definiscono confini (mentali, comportamentali, ecc.)
2) ti dicono come pensare e comportarti all’interno dei confini per il tuo benessere/successo

La vera verità è che spesso il nostro benessere/successo è proprio al di fuori dei nostri confini.

Non deve interessare cosa ci sarà oltre la curva, ciò che è importante è costruire sull’attimo presente.

Un giorno a Martin Lutero gli fu chiesto: “Ma se tu dovessi sapere con assoluta certezza che domani sarà la fine del mondo, cosa faresti da ora fino a domani?” e Lutero rispose: “Continuerei a coltivare il mio orticello”.

Leggi le seguenti predizioni di chi, nel passato, prevedeva il futuro e, la prossima volta che incontri qualcuno che circa un tuo progetto di dirà: è impossibile, pensaci bene prima di dare credito a tale previsione; piuttosto, continua a lavorare sulla costruzione del tuo presente…

joe

Questo telefono ha troppi difetti per essere considerato seriamente un mezzo di comunicazione. Il congegno intrinsecamente non ha alcun valore per noi (comunicazione di servizio interna della Western Union, 1876)

Non ci piace il loro suono e poi, la musica con la chitarra è sulla via del tramonto (Deca Recording Company che rifiuta i Beatles nel 1962)

È una fantasticheria immaginare che… le automobili prenderanno il posto delle ferrovie nel trasporto di passeggeri a lunga distanza (American Road Congress, 1913)

Non c’è alcuna probabilità che l’uomo possa mai sfruttare il potere dell’atomo (Robert Millikan, vincitore del premio Nobel per la fisica, 1920)

La bomba non esploderà mai. Parlo come esperto di esplosivi. (Ammiraglio William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project, 1943)

La scatola armonica senza fili non ha alcun valore commerciale immaginabile. Chi pagherebbe un messaggio inviato a nessuno in particolare? (I soci di David Sarnoff in risposta alle sue sollecitazioni relative agli investimenti nella radio negli anni ’20)

Non c’è alcuna ragione per cui qualcuno dovrebbe volere un computer nella propria casa (Ken Olsen, presidente di Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)

Chi diamine vuole sentire parlare di attori? (Harry Warner, Warner Brothers Pictures, 1927)

Penso che ci sia un mercato mondiale per circa cinque computer (Thomas Watson, presidente di IBM, 1943)

Il volo con macchine più pesanti dell’aria è irrealizzabile e insignificante, se non completamente impossibile (Simon Newcomb, un astronomo di una certa fama, 1902)

L’uomo non raggiungerà mai la luna indipendentemente da tutti i progressi scientifici futuri (Dott. Lee DeForest, inventore, 1957)

Le macchine volanti più pesanti dell’aria sono impossibili (Lord Kelvin, presidente della Royal Society, 1895)

Il 640K dovrebbe essere sufficiente per chiunque (Bill Gates, 1981)

Fonte: Paradigms – The Business of Discovering the Future, di Joel Arthur Barker (Collins, 1993)

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How to change an unpleasant memory: Movie Music

// gennaio 27th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Music@Mente

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The map is not the territory.

This phrase was coined by the Polish mathematician Alfred Korzybski. He never tired of pointing out that road map or restaurant menu can help you find your way around the town or select a meal. However, they are both fundamentally different from the road you take or the entrée that’s brought to your table.

You can see this principle in action every day as people drive to work. Months or perhaps even many years ago, each driver looked over his or her street map, tried a few different routes, and settled on the best way to get from home to work and back. Since then, most of these drivers have been driving that same route every day.

In the meantime, new connector and feeder roads have been added. Unless a driver has taken the time to his or her mental map, there will necessarily be discrepancies between this map and the territory. This won’t matter too much until the day workers begin road construction on that usual route to work. Traffic will back up as the drivers with older maps are startled out of their mental slumber to discover they have only a few routes, and are without a clue about the range of available alternatives. Meanwhile, drivers with a newer and more complete map, with many routes and alternatives, have already taken the previous exit and are on their way.

Another way to appreciate the importance of this presupposition is to experience it directly. Take a few minutes to do the next exercise. Remember, the more complete attention you can devote to it, the more thorough the results.

We’ve all had disappointments in life that later turned out not to be the “big deal” we thought they were at the time. People often say they “changed with time”, but it wasn’t the length of time that changed them. It was how they remembered the memory that changed. On completing the Movie Music exercise, the mental code, your map for the experience, is different because you changed it deliberately. Knowing how to do this means you don’t have to wait for your feelings to change. You can do it now.

In this exercise you will learn how to change an unpleasant memory. This technique works best everyday problems of low to medium intensity.

Watch Movie of Problem Situation. Begin by thinking of an everyday difficulty. For example, recall a time that you were disappointed or embarrassed, a time when you didn’t feel very good about things. Pick a specific and real event from your past. As you think of this specific event, notice what images and sounds come to mind and watch a movie of this event unfold before you. When you’re done, notice how you’re feeling.

Select Them Music. Now select some “theme music” that mismatch the feelings you got from the movie you just watched. Your memory is probably serious and heavy. So select something light and bouncy, like circus or cartoon music. Some people prefer upbeat dance music, while others like overly dramatic classical or operatic music.

Repeat Movie with Music. When you have selected music, have it playing nice and loud in your mind as you begin to watch your movie again. Have the music continue playing all the way through to the end.

Check Results. Now, rewind that movie back to the beginning. Play it without the music and notice your response to this time. Have your feelings changed? For many, the incident has become ludicrous or humorous. For others, their unpleasant feelings have been greatly reduced or at least neutralized. It your feelings are not yet satisfactory for you, try using different kinds of theme music with your movie until you find one that works for you.

Enjoy your work
joe

The Artist Within

// gennaio 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // Music@Mente

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The artist is a person who, more than others, is sensitive to various situations of life and therefore this aspect, if by one part gives a burst of creativity, on the other makes it fragile, exposed to the riots that life offers.

Often an artistic composition that the artist can not finish, a certain musical technique that the musician can not get, a critique received, render him insecure about the goal, his purpose, clarity of vision about his art, resulting in poor esteem, low confidence, depression.

I always had an idea: a place where the artist can develop all those useful features for his path, acquiring the strategies to overcome the natural obstacles that arise. A gym where he can train his own mind as an artist. So here is that the idea is transformed, and the place becomes a virtual laboratory: the blog.

With this post so, I want to start, I virtually open this place, cutting the ribbon to enter in this place, where I intend to propose a series of tips, exercises, useful strategies. These exercises are based on research in the field of psychology and NLP, and are all very easily and naturally, without effort.

First you need to first determine the starting point. The human mind works in thoughts and images. And… Then the Action

Our specific thoughts, images, actions, and feelings consistently produce specific results. We may be happy or unhappy with these results, but if we repeat the same thoughts, actions, and feelings, we’ll get the same results. The process works perfectly. If we want to change our results, then we need to change the thoughts, actions, and feelings that go into producing them. Once we understand specifically how we create and maintain our inner thoughts and feelings, it is a simple matter for us to change them to more useful ones or if we find better ones, to teach them to others.

So, the starting point is some presuppositions that we have to consider, because are the base of our power thoughts:

The map is not the territory. Our mental maps of the world are not the world. We respond to our maps, rather than directly to the world. Mental maps, especially feelings and interpretations, can be updated more easily than the world can be changed.

Experience has a structure. Our thoughts and memories have a pattern to them. When we change that pattern or structure, our experience will automatically change. We can neutralize unpleasant memories and enrich memories that will serve us.

If one person can do something, anyone can learn to do it. We can learn an achiever’s mental map and make it our own. Too many people think certain things are impossible without ever going out and trying them. Pretend that everything is possible. When there is a physical or environmental limit, the world of experience will let you know about it.

The mind and body are parts of the same system. Our thoughts instantly affect our muscle tension, breathing, feelings, and more, and these in turn affect our thoughts. When we learn to change either one, we have learned to change the other.

People already have all the resources they need. Mental images, inner voices, sensations, and feelings are the basic building blocks of our mental blocks and physical resources. We can use them to build up any thought, feeling, or skill we want, and then place them in our lives where we want or need them.

You and Me cannot NOT communicate. We are always communicating, at least, nonverbally, and words are often the least important part. A sigh, a smile, and a look are all communications. Even our thoughts are communications with ourselves, and they are revealed to others through our eyes, voice tones, postures, and body movements.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get. Others receive what we say and do through their mental map of the world. When someone hears something different from we meant, it’s a chance for us to notice that communication means what we received. Nothing how our communication is received allows us to adjust it, so that next time it can be clearer.

Underlying every behaviour is a positive intention. Every hurtful, harmful, and even thoughtless behavior had a positive purpose in its original situation. Yelling in order to be acknowledged. Hitting to fend off danger. Hiding to feel safe. Rather than condoning or condemning these actions, we can separate them from the person’s positive intent, so that new, updated, and more positive choices can be added that meet the same intent.

People are always making the best choices available to them. Every one of us has his or her unique personal history. Within it, we learned what to do and how to do it, what to want and how to want it, what to value it, what to learn and how to learn it. This is our experience. From it, we must make all of our choices; that is, until new and better oner are added.

If what you are doing isn’t working, do something else. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. If you want something new, do something new, especially when are so many alternatives.

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