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Power of the Mind

Brain - Control center of your body
Exterior Parts of the Brain

Frontal Lobe (Control)

- Involved in Planning and Thinking
- Rational and Exclusive control center of the brain
- Plays an Important role in monitoring higher order thinking, directing problem solving, and regulating the excesses of the
emotional system
- Contains the self-will area or what others call Personality
- According to Geday and Gjedde, most of your working memory is located in the frontal lobe
- Slowly matures until adulthood
- Trauma to the frontal lobe causes dramatic, and sometimes permanent, behavior and personality changes

Temporal Lobes (keyword: Tempo )

- Found above the ears
- Deals with sound music, face and object recognition and some parts of long -term memory
- The speech centers are located at the left temporal lobe.

Occipital lobes (Visual)

- Functions for visual processing
- Located at the back of your head

Parietal lobes
- Involved mainly with spatial orientation, calculation, and certain types of recognition

Motor Cortex (Motor)

- Controls your body movement
- Works with the cerebellum to coordinate the learning of motor skills

Somatosensory cortex (Touch) - Processes the signals of touch

Interior Parts of the Brain

Brain stem
- Resembles the entire brain of a reptile; sometimes referred to as the reptilian brain
- Consists of midbrain, pons, and the medulla oblangata
- Monitors your vital body functions such as heartbeat, respiration, body temperature, and digestion.
- The Reticular activating system (RAS) is located in the brainstem and is responsible for your brains alertness.

Limbic system
- Located above your brainstem and below the cerebrum
- Composed of the structures that have different functions such as generation of emotion and processing of emotional
memories.
- Its location allows the interplay of emotion and reason.

The four parts of the Limbic System

1. Thalamus
- Most sensory information goes through the thalamus and directed to other parts of the brain of more processing
- Involved in many cognitive activities including memory

2. Hypothalamus
- In charge of monitoring the internal systems to maintain homeostasis or the normal state of the body
- It moderates different body functions, which include sleep, body temperature, and food intake, by controlling the release of
some hormones.
3. Hippocampus
- Does an important role in consolidating learning and converts information to the long -term storage regions
- Significant in creating the meaning of information by comparing those that are working memory and those that are stored
exper iences.
- Capable of neurogenesis or the production of neurons, which has a significant effect on learning and memory.

4. Amygdala
- Known to take part in emotions, especially fear
- Plays an important role in regulating your interactions with your environment that can help you survive.
- Encodes the emotion whenever a memory is kept in the long -term storage.
- The emotional element of a memory is stored in the amygdala
- You remember situations more when your emotions are triggered by them
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Cerebrum
- Largest brain structure, representing neraly 80% of the brain by weight
- Has folded bulges called gyri, and it is marked by deep furrows called fissures and shallow ones called sulci.
- Divided in two halves called the cerebral hemispheres
- The two hemispheres are connected by the corpus callosum, which is made up of more than 200 million nerve fibers that
functio n as a brodge by
which the hemispheres communicate with each other.
- Your right cerebral hemisphere is in charge of the left side of your body while your left cerebral hemisphere is in charge of
your right side
- The hemispheres are covered by thin but tough laminated cortices, the brain's gray matter, where most of the actions of the
b rain take place such as
thought, memory, speech, and muscular movement
- The neurons in the cortices form columns that branch and extend through the cortical layer into a dense web below known as
th e white matter,
where neurons connect with each other to form neural networks that carry out specific functions

Cerebellum
- Accounts for 11% of the weight of your brain.
- Convoluted and highly organized brain structure that contains more neurons than all the other brain parts put together.
- Coordinates movement
- Monitors impulses from nerve endings in the muscles; hence, it plays a key role in the performance and timing of complex
motor tasks.
- Stores the memory of automatic movements such as touch typing and knife skills.
- Your performance in doing your tasks is improved by enhancing your speed and accuracy with lesser effort through
automation

Brain
- Your brain is composed of a trillion of brains cells, which may be nerve cells or glial cells
- The nerve cells, which are called neurons, functioning core for the brain and the entire nervous system.
- There are about 100 billion neurons, which allow the brain to process the electrical impulses coming from all over the body,
to store your experiences
and those details involved, to learn languages, and to combine information
- Neurons are formed through a process called neurogenesis.
- Each neuron consists of a nucleus, as well as the neuron's cell body, dendrites, and axons.
- Dendrites receive electrical impulses from other neurons and transmit the message to another neuron through the long fiber,
c alled the axon, by an
electrochemical process.
- The axon is surrounded by a layer called the myelin sheath, which insulates it from other cells, and increases the speed of i
mpulse transmission.
- Between the dendrite of one neuron and the axon of another neuron, there Is a small gap of about a millionth of an inch, whic
h is called a synapse
- Glial cells hold the neurons together and filter harmful substances from affecting the neurons
Brain Lateralization
- Specialization - limited to only one hemisphere
- Lateralization - both hemispheres
Brain Dominance

Right Brained:
- Follow their emotions and intuitions
- Fluid and spontaneous
- Focuses on the basic concept
- Start from the big picture to understand the small one
- Flexible with rules and facts; hence you go with the flow, try new methods, or skip from one task to another
- Tend to care less with organization or neatness
- Take down notes but lose them
- You learn your lessons more easily by using charts, time lines, or graphs, and by labeling the parts of information or topics
being studied

Left Brained:
- Respond in logical ways and are guided by sequence and order
- Linear thinker
- Prefer a structured approach
- Focus on details and start from the small picture to understand the big one.
- You follow a schedule and maintain routines; as such, you like predictability and consistency.
- Prefers to study in a clean and quiet place
- Prefers verbal directions and value facts over feelings

Mind Mapping
- Developed by Tony Buzan (2002)
- An approach that makes use of the production of pictures or diagrams of one's thoughts or conversation
- Is simply making a diagram of the structure of memory patterns in the brain because it operates on key words, and copying
thi s approach is
extremely helpful
- Always begin with a general idea or topic written in the middle of your map, and then you branch outward by writing
supportin g thoughts to your
general idea.
- In putting your ideas in a visible format, you keep in mind that colors and images can be used so that you enjoy doing it.

Managing your Emotions

"Emotions are powerful - they can make or break you"

2 Types of Emotion
. Positive (happiness, love, joy, hope, and excitement)
. Negative (anger, rage, boredom, and disgust)

Emotion
is your reaction to any stimulus and comes from your limbic system, the area in your brain that reacts automatically to the
world around you without your rational thought or reasoning
(Hasson, 2012)

Emotions are measured through:

Self-report instruments
Psychological Tests
Physiological Tests

3 Aspects of Emotion
Cognitive- The person's appraisal of the situation
Physical - Body's reaction to feelings or emotions.
Behavioral - Action tendency to deal with certain emotions.

3 Steps in Managing your Emotions

. Identify and Name What you Feel
. owning and Accepting your Feelings
. Discernment and Appropriation

intelligence is extremely complicated when defined considering the theories that are founded on this concept. intelligence
has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learing, emotional
knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

Managing your Emotions

we all get angry. we all have disappointments. often, it's important to express how you feel. But managing your reaction means
knowing when, where, and how to express yourself. When you understand your emotions and know how to manage them, you
can use self control to hold a reaction if now is not the right time or place to express it. someone who has good EQ knows it
can damage relationships to react to emotions in a way that's disrespectful, too intense, too impulsive, or harmful.

Emotional Intelligences
● Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage our emotions.
● Emotional intelligence is sometimes called EQ (or El) for short.
Just as a high IQ can predict top test scores, a high Eq can predict success in social and emotional situations. EQ
helps us build strong relationships, make good decisions, and deal with difficult situations.
● one way to think about EQ is that it's part of being people-smart. understanding and getting along with people helps us
be successful in almost any area of life. in fact, some studies show that Eq is more important than iq when it comes to
doing well in school or being successful at work.

Wrap Up!
Emotional intelligence is something that develops as we get older. if it didn't, all adults would act like litHe kids, expressing
their emotions physically through stomping, crying, hitting, yelling, and losing control! some of the skills that make up
emotional intelligence develop earlier.
They may seem easier: For example, recognizing emotions seems easy once we know what to pay attention to. But the EQ skill
of managing emotional reactions and choosing a mood might seem harder to master. That's because the part of the brain
that's responsible for self-management continues to mature beyond our teen years.
But practice helps those brain pathways develop.
we can all work to build even stronger emotional intelligence skills just by recognizing what we feel, understanding how we got
there, understanding how others feel and why, and putting our emotions into heartfelt words when we need to.