Even Though My Environment is Different than My Thinking, My Thinking is More Important.

Size Matters. Big Time! The size of the Frontal Lobe, that is. Our  frontal lobe is larger in reference to the rest of the brain, than in any other species: It’s almost 40% of a human brain, about 15-17% in great apes, about 7% in dogs and just 3% in cats.

The frontal lobe (in red), is the ‘executive’. It’s the part that decides on actions. The area where planning, speculating, and inventing takes place. It’s where intent is. And it’s its oversize in reference to the rest of the brain that is unique only to us humans.

It is the frontal lobe’s key role in driving our actions, that earned it the unbelievably violent treatment used in sever mental illnesses in the 40s and 50s, named lobotomy. And as this blog is mostly peace and love, I’ll leave it to the horror genre lovers to read further…

But what does Quantum Physics have to do with all that? Is what asked myself yesterday when I was watching Dr. Joe Dispenza‘s (of “What The Bleep Do We Know” movie) “Mastering the Art of Observation“.

In this thought provoking monologue/DVD, he builds a case that bridges the gap between Quantum Physics and Spontaneous Remissions. And one of the key building blocks in the case is our power, as ‘observers’, to pro-actively observe a different outcome – of the state of our physical bodies included.

In his research, he found that people who experienced spontaneous remissions of illnesses had something very interesting in common. They all said, in one way or another, “I’m going to observe a different outcome. and I’m going to hold on to this observation, independent of the in feedback from my body, environment and time.” He explains further: “And it’s the frontal lobe, the crown of human achievements, that allows us to do that. The frontal lobe gives us permission to make a thought more real than anything else. To hold on to a concept, an idea, a vision  or a dream, independent of circumstances that exist in the world, in our body, in reference to time. And those are the traits that we secretly admire in all great people”.

And he closes the loop:

“The whole idea of separation between mind and matter, the separation between the objective and the subjective may actually begin to merge when we apply these principles together. Maybe quantum physics gives us permission to say that my observations matter. Maybe the frontal lobe, the crowning achievement of human being allows us to modify our behaviour in one lifetime, and to grow new circuits and now connections as a new place of being. And this this merging that takes place between mind and matter says this: My thoughts matters. And because it matters, it should have a direct effect on the closest thing that exists to me, which is my physical body. And if we can begin to merge these ideas, we’ve come a complete circle back to understanding that there is no separation. Mind gives life to matter.”

And he ends with:

“To learn, to remember, and to experience is out gift as human beings. By this process, we are forever changing. To stop learning is to stop changing. When we can demonstrate that we can learn the universe will never leaves us behind. Our change is our own evolution.

Scientifically, this bridge may still be more of a quantum leap, so to speak… But intuitively, and experientially,  this idea totally makes sense to me. And science after all, is limited to the realm of what’s measurable in tools we have today.

“Even though my environment is different than my thinking, my thinking is more important.” - Dr. Dispenza

There are some fascinating experiments by Dr. William A. Tiller that explore the limits of traditional ‘time-space’ science:

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Flying Trapeze – Oscillations of the Mind

I’ve been wanting to try the Flying Trapeze for a really long time and a few days ago I find there’s one just a couple of blocks away from my apartments in Chelsea. Armed with my latest obsession to better understand unlearning of fear response, I sign up. But not before I drag for the ride my sister in law and my brother, who ended up relieving himself of breakfast, the way it came in, just as soon as we got back home.

My findings?

  1. The alignment of my bodily fear oscillations and the positive/negative zigzagging of the inner self talk was stunning. At the first jump, the voice saying “don’t do this” was so loud and powerful my body just froze and I totally ignored the “hop!” order. Paralyzing-scary turned exhilarating-scary and after two hours I was still kind of scared but also doing a flip and a catch. So did Eran and Jackie.
  2. Flying Trapeze is FUN and pretty hilarious too when you go with friends.

The full flying album of Eran, Jackie and yours, um… fearfully? :-) is here on Facebook.

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Human Population: Zero. Life After People

Plants take over cities, wild life re-establishes in the habitat it was chased away from, oceans make astonishing recovery. Natures rules again. And all this happens much faster than we imagine…

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Dancing on Wheels in Central Park

Taken last week. I love the summer scene in the park!

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NYC, Bird-Eye-Style, with Yuda Doron

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Hi, my name is Maya, and I’m an eMailoholic

I had my first email in 1996. It has now gotten to a point where  sometimes I can have as many as 10 or 15 email box checks a day. That’s not the only thing I use. There’s also Facebook, Twitter and Feeds. And it’s not just the Desktop. I do it on my laptop, iPad and iPhone too.

Every time I have a creative block, or I hit a wall in my research, or I want to pretend as if I’m not procrastinating, I escape to my box. It makes me feel busy. I check emails when I’m not working too.

I realize now that this is hurting me. And it’s hurting the people I love. It has happened more than once that while I was talking to a friend on the phone I was also writing an email. Not to mention when I talk to my mom. One time I even checked my emails during sacred Wednesday-date-night with my husband. And one particularly low-point time, on the way to the shower after sex.

They say it takes 21 days to break a habit. I was not able to find any scientific proof of that.

In the next 21 days, I will check my emails only twice a day: noon-time and end-of-the-work-day-time. I will feed my RSS needs once a day in the evening and satisfy my Social Networking addiction not more than once a day.

It’s been 1 day since my last repeat email checking.

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Professional 2.0, MailChimp Case Study: Bring Yourself to Work

MailChimp is an email marketing platform used by some pretty high profile brands. It offers powerful campaign management tools and also, um… how shall I put it? A very unusual user experience…

For example, you may be working on building your new blog newsletter and on the top right corner the Chimp would say:

and then the link, if you’re tempted to click it, would play this weird video:

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or you could be looking at your campaign analytics and find a note that says: “Your campaign got a 100% click rate. Your best ever! Ka-ching! Yeah baby yeah”.

You may say it’s silly, and I’ll add that the monkey’s sense of humor is sometimes on the lame/dorky side, but, it made me smile and you know what, I think a 100% click rate does call for a “Yeah baby, Yeah!”. It gave me a much needed commic releif between html tags AND it let me know there are people on the other side of this service. People that bring themselves to work. People with personality. People that appreciate a comic relief from time to time too. People that understand that professional work doesn’t mean being dead serious all the time.  And  it doesn’t mean you have to communicating with your customers in a dry, official and law-suit-like way (as Microsoft often does).

Dare to be conversational. It’s more fun for everyone involved. As for professional, if you’re not, no amount of “we appreciate your business” kind of talk will change that.

And, if you’re a more ‘tight-chimp’ type at work, you can always set your account to :

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‘Windows Genuin Advantage Notifications’ sounds about as friendly as ‘Homeland Security’

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The Axis of Evil

Got a craving for standup last night and streamed  the entire The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour from Netflix. These guys are so witty, so hilarious and sadly, so right… The name of the tour is yet another thing we can be grateful to former president George W Bush for…

Enjoy, it’s a killer! ;-)

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Surrogates. Unimaginable? Not Really.

Inevitable? Tough one…

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