Click Your Stress Away And Boost Performance
October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Use MindHabits To Boost Emotional Intelligence and Develop Success Habits
A computer game designed to help patients cope with anxiety has the added bonus of reducing levels of the stress hormone cortisol by 17%, according to research findings published in the October 2007 issue of the American Psychology Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Developed by McGill University researchers, MindHabits involves a series of exercises that train the mind to focus on positive feedback rather than perceived social criticisms. The researchers tried their game out on a group of telemarketers. After playing the game, the call center staffers experienced higher self-esteem, lower cortisol and improved work performance.
Evelyn Fine, a car saleswoman in Greenville, Ky., says she can attest firsthand to the benefits of MindHabits.
“I noticed a change in attitude within the first week of playing it. It teaches your mind to automatically focus on the positive,” says Ms. Fine, who has been playing the game up to 15 minutes a day for the past six weeks.
She says, adding that playing the game also has boosted her work productivity. “I’ve even seen my sales increasing in the last month,” she says. “I really like it.”
Just a little bit of practice a day can work!
It’s not like an adventure game where you plug yourself in and you lose track of time for six hours. It’s the kind of thing where you do it for a little bit everyday just for a break. I encouraged clients to try it and got great feedback!
Now I am proud to say that MindHabits recently became a sponsor of my Yes You Can podcast. Go there now and try the game free.
Enjoy,
Joseph Liberti
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October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Use Google To Boost Emotional Intelligence and Stop Hijack
Emotional Hijack or amygdala hijack as it was defined by Daniel Goleman, Author of Emotional Intelligence , occurs when emotions take over your rational brain and rule your actions. When your emotional brain hijacks your rational brain, you react impulsively to a situation instead of responding consciously with purposeful action.
One of the ways to get back in control of your faculties, that emotional intelligence coaches have taught for years, is to shift out of your emotional brain and into your rational brain by solving math problems. By using your math solving brain process you interrupt the runaway emotional process and can think and act clearly.
One of the impulsive things that we may do while we are emotionally hijacked is send an email we later regret. Now Google’s new service called Mail Goggles, offers an way to boost your emotional intelligence before clicking send. It is simple and brilliant and demonstrates one of the ways that emotional intelligence is becoming more and more a part of our new way of being. You can see an example of the process here. Go try it and you may want to bookmark the page to use it anytime you get stuck in reaction.
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
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