Charging for the mind: experience ourselves and create new

In one of posts on our website have been affected by this very interesting topic. The exercises described in it, is quite interesting and unusual, and really help to relax, energize and continue to work with a clear head.

In this post I want to introduce you with another very interesting "charging", which I came across, furrowing the space network. I think it is worth mentioning and you will be interesting and useful.

The question will be not just about charging for the mind, but of the exercise, which can change your vision, look at some of the things, people and actions. They are taken from the book Brand Dorothy (Dorothea Brande) «Wake up and live» (Wake Up and Live), written in 1936. But now, these exercises have not lost their relevance. They help shake things up, to get away from the daily routine and take a look at what is happening from a different angle.

1. Try one hour a day to keep quiet and only respond to direct questions. In this case, you should try to remain calm and try not to look like an injured or unhealthy. Try to look like you normally look. Do not make comments, do not try to pull information from interlocutors.

On the one hand, everything seems easy. But the reality is much more complicated. For example, if you're almost always smiling and quite talkative, then when you start to keep quiet and only respond to direct questions all begin to ask not It happened there something you feel, etc. In this explanation, I just do not want to talk right now and I think, for example, on a project, do not cause much trust. Sometimes it comes to absurdity, until you think of something just a little healthier. Then from behind you with a polite question, not whether to give a headache pill.

2. Try to think about 30 minutes every day just about one thing. You can start with 5 minutes.

In one of the books N. Kozlov describes a remarkable exercise in which you have to eat an apple for a fairly long period of time (the duration can not remember exactly). That is with a sense of chewing, so to speak, to feel all the nuances of taste and aftertaste. That's just as well you can focus on one thing, seeing it to the last detail. It helps to adjust the sharpness of vision, and eventually you'll notice all the important details almost immediately (as in the subject, and in person).

3. Try to speak for 15 minutes each day without the use of the pronouns "I", "me", "my".

Believe me, it is quite difficult. All of us in the soul a little (and some very, very) selfish and your inner "I" can not rebel joke. Try it and see what happens, firstly, you will become more pleasant companion and other people will develop for you a good first impression.

4. Stopping at the threshold of any overcrowding, mentally try to expand it.

5. Try to make sure that your new acquaintance talked only about himself. Try all of his questions about you politely return so that the listener does not notice resistance.

Learn to do it beautifully and quietly, and one of you will get a wonderful speaker.

6. Try to talk about themselves and their interests so that it did not look like a boast, or a complaint. And that story was interesting to your friends.

The art of being a good conversationalist is not only that the right to listen, but also to tell interesting.

7. Try to plan something for two hours a day, and try to stick to the plan.

If you are in compliance with the performance graphs and lists of problems, this exercise will help to deal with it "gently and carefully."

8. Give yourself 12 different tasks. For example, to move away from home at 12 km using only public transport, do not have 12 hours to find 12 unusual places to lunch (park underground, the roof of the house), work all night, did not say anything all day except to answer a direct question, etc.

The list can be endless and it all depends on your imagination. By this you can connect your friends and come up with something new each week.

9. Sometimes allocate one day, when all the requests you answer "Yes".

By the way, learn to say "No" at the right moment, like 'Yes' even in negative replies great art.

If you know more interesting exercises, you'll be very grateful, if you share. Especially if you do not just read, but also experienced.