Epigenetics is the study of how the brain responds to physical stimuli of electromagnetic and chemical flow in the brain. This process triggers groups of genes to act in a positive or negative direction based on your emotional and/or physical reactions to life events. Life events plus your response to those events determine the outcomes of your life. Negative responses create negative outcomes, and positive responses drive more positive and optimal outcomes, even in the most challenging of life circumstances.
When you change your behavior, you change your life circumstances… You are free to make choices about how you focus your attention, and this affects how the chemicals and proteins and wiring of your brain change and function. Neuroscientists are proving that the relationship between what you think and how you understand yourself and the world around you – your beliefs, dreams, hopes, and thoughts – has a huge impact on how your brain works and ultimately what you achieve in levels of performance excellence.
The link to neuroscience and thought is that thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate. Moment by moment, every day, you are changing the structure of your brain through your thinking. When you are thinking positively, productively, and when you hope for something better, you alter the physical structure of your brain in a more positive, productive direction allowing your brain to function in the high capacity for which it is created.
Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, says there are four roles you can learn and manage every day to take control of your thoughts, so you take control of your life:
- Lead your brain – you can give your brain‑specific orders every day
- Reinvent your brain – create new neuropathways and connections inside your brain to become more productive and to achieve your goals
- Teach your brain – train your brain into new habits and new skills
- Use your brain – you are responsible for keeping your brain in good working order.
Your brain is the gateway to your future. Your brain cannot do for you what it thinks it cannot do. Primitive or negative reactions (fear, anger, jealousy, and aggression) to external threat stimuli can overrule higher brain function necessary for higher‑order cognitive function (problem solving, critical thinking, teamwork, unit, clarity, and cohesion). Learning how to create a robust response capacity – mental resilience – you can learn to take control of your thinking and ultimately learn to take control of your destiny.
Learning the skill of Positive Presence, you can learn to take control of your thinking. The skill of Positive Presence is your innate ability to adjust for and create a positive and energized mindset through conscience thought processes that ultimately teaches you to take control of your brain and your destiny.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.