From the course: Recharge Your Energy for Peak Performance
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Your brain boss
From the course: Recharge Your Energy for Peak Performance
Your brain boss
- Over the past few decades, we've learned some simple but powerful rules about how the brain manages energy from the top down and the bottom up. From the top down, the brain is the master controller of the human system, and what we pay attention to takes our energy with it. For example, you're probably not consciously thinking about sending blood and oxygen to your big right toe, but if you were to pay attention to it right now, you'd probably start noticing how it feels. When we pay attention to something, our awareness brings new feelings or sensations, and it can change both the quantity and the quality of our energy. If you think about someone you feel grateful for in your life and bring awareness to the space around your heart, you may notice a shift happens in how you feel physically and emotionally in the moment. This is top-down processing, where you consciously think of something, direct your attention towards it, and then you feel differently in your body. At the same time,…
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