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REconnecting to REvitalise

Mind Chi Chat – REconnecting

Funny how life often seems to go in clumps – I am having a clump of reconnecting at this time. One of the many advantages to having been on this planet for quite a while, is that I have an amazing network of friends all over this planet.

Sometimes a special need or experience fires the REason to REconnect, and other times you may see a comment on social media, and want to REspond. Sometimes they just pop into your head. If that happens several times, or someone else also mentions them, then I know I need to ping a note.

Be the one to initiate. Don’t you love it when someone REconnects with you? Well, they will love it as much, when you connect to them.

REset for REsilience

Fellow Mind Chi Mentors and Change Makers, Jill Whittington and Nicky Carew and I are beaming a ‘REset for REsilience’ coffee chat on Friday 13th May at noon BST with LikendIn. Please pop in and join us if you can. Another theme at this time, seems to be ‘RE- .. ‘ REset and REconnect; nature is REnewing with all the fresh leaves shooting forth; REconsider and even REsilient!

The prefix RE from the Latin ‘wre’ meaning ‘again’. It is a way of REcommitting. Something worth doing again, or needed again.

The power of purpose to REvitalise

Several of my colleagues and The Change Maker Group and I have been concentrating on having a Purpose in life – and using that purpose as a steering wheel to assist with building your REsilience in and joy for life.

As Cathy Summers and I share in a 2-part insights article for The Change Maker Group, purpose has a way of REenergising you, your family and friends, your team or group and even your whole company. Here is the link if you want to REconsider what your purpose is or could be.

REset to REconnect for your REsilience

And to the REconnecting

I just love it when maybe even several years have gone by, and an ‘old’ colleague and friend ‘pops’ up. And you just carry on the conversation as though not even a moment has passed. Maybe you catch up about ‘How is so and so?’ ‘Have you seen x?’ Or we may recall a time we shared. These are treasures – riches of life. And we REmember them afresh and add to them the ‘now’ component.

I am sending you very best RE wishes in all their forms. Please tell us what RE’s you have REcently experienced!

Chi and I are standing by on the ready to take your calls and emails! 

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Chi Time with Jill…..all things Chi and Resilience – Plasticity!

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More on the brain, plasticity and what I think Mind Chi is

Welcome back to my exploration of my Mind Chi journey so far…………

Last time I ended on the fact that we can literally program our brain by rewiring it. Chi Time with Jill – Sharing all things Chi and resilience! (mindchi.com) Changing our thought patterns is tangibly reflected in changes of habit.

Wow – How amazing is that? Imagine the advert:

You can’t live without this new gadget. It goes everywhere with you for the whole of your life. You can call upon it at a moment’s notice. It can do anything you teach it to. You can learn, grow and change to achieve anything you want through it….. and its FREE!

Who wouldn’t want one?!!!

Discovering the Brain

I can’t quite recall when my ‘aha’ moment was, except that it was a long time ago! It had an immediate profound effect on me. It helped me understand why I used techniques that I was automatically doing e.g. affirmations, positive outlook etc.

Yes, the brain does come with a health warning as it can actually do the opposite to what you want if not programmed in the best way – just like any computer!

My discovery therefore not so much changed, but reinforced my faith and belief in the brain by using my mind as a force for good. A force for good to transform my behaviour, either to get through challenging moments or as a source of inspiration for living the life I choose. Attracting the elements I need or wish to have to enable that.

Why ‘plasticity’ is important?

Plasticity is important because Mind Chi uses the fact that the brain is so malleable. We can literally rewire our brain through our patterns of thought. This can be negative if thoughts are primarily anxious, worry, hopeless etc. (This is the health warning a referred to above !)

We have some 50,000 thoughts per day and 70% of those are negative!

I recognised small habits I had unconsciously developed such as worrying if a presentation would go well, or that I would forget what I wanted to say etc..

Knowing, at the same time that a small amount of ‘stress’ in certain circumstances is totally natural and can be a huge energiser. We live with common ‘stressors’ day in, day out. It is however when we become overwhelmed by something that we can become stuck in a certain way of being as a default.

On the positive side, we want the brain as an unlimited source of inspiration through positive and uplifting thought patterns. Whatever we think more of we become.

Using Mind Chi, we can literally unstick our unhelpful thoughts, and habits and replace with ones that serve us well.

When Vanda asked me to briefly explain what I think Mind Chi is, I had no hesitation in answering:

‘Mind Chi helps to use our brain to help rather than hinder us.‘

Mind Chi builds, manages and directs mental energy for increased resilience, performance, motivation and happiness, through practicing control over our thoughts, emotions and actions

Consider what you unconsciously spend 8 minutes a day on – perhaps social media, procrastinating, worrying, listening to bad news, talking about bad news, researching best ‘smart apps’ etc, etc.

What if YOU reinvested one of those 8 minute unhelpful distractions to a Chi Time re-set?

Here is a previous article I wrote on the subject New FREE ‘smart app’ for everyone – The Change Maker Group

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