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How Your Brain Can Make You Nuts at Work

Guest post by: Sylvia Lafair

Article Overview: Sometimes there is a frustrating moment when you are not sure what you see, hear, and feel is making sense to anyone but you. It is crazy making to check what is going on in a meeting and you are the only one sensing the tension and disconnect. Maybe, just maybe, it is not what is happening in the room at that exact time. Perhaps, it is a memory trace of a past event in your lif,e and there you are, in a sense, reliving it. The scientific term for this is called an engram. Here is an example: You are a toddler and the family is going to the beach for the first time. Everyone is excited about flying from land-locked Oklahoma to Florida.

How Your Brain Can Make You Nuts at Work

Sometimes there is a frustrating moment when you are not sure what you see, hear, and feel is making sense to anyone but you. It is crazy making to check what is going on in a meeting and you are the only one sensing the tension and disconnect. Maybe, just maybe, it is not what is happening in the room at that exact time. Perhaps, it is a memory trace of a past event in your lif,e and there you are, in a sense, reliving it.

The scientific term for this is called an engram. Here is an example: You are a toddler and the family is going to the beach for the first time. Everyone is excited about flying from land-locked Oklahoma to Florida.

Your parents talk about swimming in the ocean, the warm blue water and the pretty white waves. You are old enough to know this will be special.

Then you get to the beach and it is pouring rain. You stand with your family on the motel patio and sense the upset and annoyance.

Now, fast forward: you are a grown-up and you are taking your family to the beach. It is a sunny day and everything is working perfectly; except, you are depressed and sad. Do you feel nuts? Of course you do!

Blame it on your brain. The old trace memory from long ago has kicked in, and while it is certainly possible to shake off the upset, you wonder why it happened in the first place.

Many times we can go back and connect the dots of old memories; often we can't. So, if your feelings are not connected to the situation of the moment, know it is an earlier pattern from the past at play.

Remember: 1. You do bring your past with you whether you want to or not.

2. Every thought and situation is recorded in your memory system.

3. Present reactions may be knee-jerk responses to the past.

So, when the guy next to you in a meeting says something that presses your buttons non- stop, ask yourself if this is from what is actually happening in the present, or does he remind you of your older, know-it-all brother who used to drive you crazy.

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