I need this ole train to break down!
One of my favorite songs: Jack Johnson’s “Breakdown” The lyrics are spot on for times such as these. We are running out of time and we feel helpless to do anything about it! Profusion — More and more, faster and faster. (see www.wave-movie.com)
I’m I’ve just finished reading “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working” by Tony Schwartz. Great stuff. Though he never mentions it by name, he nails down the insidious effects of “profusion” very well.
We’re in information overload. Multiple forms of media, all the time. Our teens prefer to stream media all the time, even when they are trying to perform one task. And yet, Schwartz maintains, the brain can TRULY only focus on ONE THING at a time. “Multitasking” is a myth — sort of. We can juggle many activities at the same time, but whenever we attend to more than one, we give short schriff to all. It’s just the way it is. When we “multitask” we shift our focus from thing to the next thing to the next — and we may never get back to the first thing…
One consultant for Apple and Microsoft labeled this “continuous partial attention.” With so many competing tasks simultaneously bombarding our senses we never (ever, ever) fully marshal all our mental and emotional capacities to focus on just one thing.
When you talk on the phone are you simultaneously scanning email? When you are on the phone to you hear, in the background, the pitter patter of fingers lightly on a computer keyboard on the other end of the line? If so, how does it make you feel? (Something like this: “I’m not important enough to warrant their full, undivided attention.”)
And that’s the point: As information increases, the ability to focus attention decreases. And with massive profusion of information comes absolute impairment, or crippling, of the abillity to attend to just one thing. Quality of work goes down. Renewal, depth of relationship, and joy of living get sucked out as depth wisps away like a vapor. We get shallow.
When was the last time you just sat down to think. In depth. On one thing. Try these 2 questions: “Who am I and why am I here?” Or this: “What do I stand for?” “What am I about?” “What do I want to be about?”
Are you growing? Or are you a pinball, bouncing from one email ping to the next, or one text message notification to the next, or one new open window on your desktop, just keeping up?
Schwartz’s aforementioned book isn’t the last word, but it’s a good read.
How does this relate to energy medicine? In just this way: We all need renewal. We perform better when we get it. Sleep. Good nutrition. Practiced attention (through prayer or meditation or reading a good book, or listening to music, or engaging is structured routines, etc.) And one of the best DAILY practices is to set aside time — twice daily — to use the whole body mat of your MRS 2000+ designo system. It is conducive to rest, to restorative napping, to better digestion, to endorphin release, to healthy stress management, and to restoration of your body’s tissues. Just about everything Schwartz mentions in his book can be enhanced by interweaving magnetic resonance stimulation into your life.
For more information, check out www.mediconsult.tv, or www.center4spine.com/how_we_help/magnetic_therapy/
