Basically the great difference between the recognized man and the respected man is the difference of the head and heart.
The respected man captivates the heart.
Recognized man appeals to the head where things are easily forgotten. Anyways, the heart does not forget. See a completely new piece by myself on compassion -transcript of a talk last year -in the Journal of Holistic Healthcare new winter edition which includes the latest neuroscience research on positive emotions, including how the process of oppositional inhibition works and its page 16.
Also many ‘failures’, on the path to Gold Medal Success athletes will enjoy many successes.
Furthermore thanks to Elise Christie for her resilience, congratulations to Lizzie Arnold Yarnold on her Gold medal success.
Their experiences validate the line above from Paul Simon.
While blaming themselves, they are able to step back and see the situation differently, to ‘learn how to fall’, rather than taking it as a sign of a personal failing and looking for some character flaw, what distinguishes the successful Olympic Athlete is how they deal with failure. Look on the report about Lizzie Yarnold and watch the interview with Elise Christie. They confused the factor of correlation with mediation, just as long as these positive characteristics are found in resilient folk does not mean that it is what makes them resilient. Actually all the evidence points to really similar factor underpinning these characteristics as underpin resilience.
Whenever leading to a cycle of rumination on our own and the health services deficiencies, certainly most of us are aware that there is a danger that sitting round contemplating and discussing and reflecting on these characteristics will make us feel worse.
More of this later.
There is loads of attention given to the problems of burnout in GPs and on compassion in the past few weeks, that said, this latter being part of the ongoing fallout from the mid staffordshire enquiry and the subsequent Francis report. However, they looked at the factors that were correlated with resilience, self directedness, co operativeness, harm avoidance, and persistence,saying that we must consider and discuss and reflect on these characteristics. Remember, look, there’re increasing strains on young GPs newly going into practice, and there was in recent years loads of papers on the subject of burnout. There was an article on resilience in the BMJ a couple of weeks ago, and I wrote a reply to it, as I felt that they had somewhat missed the point. Despite their patients did not notice it, amid the most shocking revelations on burnout was a study last year when a large cohort of GPs in Essex showed that 46 of practicing GPs were burnt out, only their professionalism kept them going.
With that said, this echoes the findings we have had from looking at GPs attending our workshops.
This I felt was a very perceptive observation, and echoes much of the research on resilience.
Actually the authors of the Essex study felt that much of the real issue drills down to a question of optimism, or lack of it. While looking at the European figures on depression in 2010 recommended that treatment should’ve been devolved to the front line, vikram Patel of the Kings Fund. By the way, the global burden of diseases 2010 study has identified depression as the second most common cause of disability worldwide, Nick Clegg said on Wednesday that threequarters of patients needing talking therapies for conditions similar to depression may be guaranteed treatment in as little as six weeks with 95percentage starting treatment right after a maximum wait of 18 weeks,. While so that’s a great soundbite most of us are aware that there are major problems with this approach. Most of us are aware that there are 4 million people in the UK with depression and despite good intentions the Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies programme started in 2006 isn’t treating anything like the numbers of people it was planned to, in 2012/13 760000 out referrals only 127000 depressed people attended for therapy the referral model isn’t working for depression, it’s just not reaching the people it needs to.
Burnout is defined by 3 factors, emotional exhaustion, cynicism and personal effectiveness.
Burnout is recognised as a high risk in those dealing with the public, and its not really surprising that constant exposure to distress and suffering takes its ll on those in the caring professions.
Burnout leads to lack of compassion. Doctors who show compassion to their patients hereafter have difficulty relating to the demands of their personal relationships. In a study of nurses and their patients which looked at what burnout factor most impacted on the patients perception of the amount of caring of their nurses, depersonalisation was the factor that had the greatest impact, defined as a ‘unfeeling or impersonal response ward recipients of one’s service, care, treatment, or instruction’, and I can’t think of a better definition of lack of compassion, indeed I know it’s almost defined by lack of compassion.
Only mental training has very much specific visualization, we have previously noted the close similarity between mindfulness training and mental training and hypnosis and autogenic training, all are a similar mix of physical relaxation and mental preparation.
As Lars Eric says in his interview, the positive spin off is that they saw co incidentally in the athletes an improvement in mood,, as he says, others perceived this change more than the athletes themselves, a sure sign of permanent change.
It’s not just elite athletes who gain from these skills. Rather than an opportunity to reflect on their failings, someone struggling to bring up a young family in poor housing. Needs to be able to access positive emotions to any situation. Basically or an overworked nurse or doctor needs to be able to see the deaths they constantly encounter as an opportunity for learning and personal growth.
Basically the ability to see the positives in a negative situation to turn negative into positive emotion, and apply the learning unconsciously applies to life as much as to elite sport, we all need to be able to bounce forwards, particularly in challenging times. With that said, this allows people to rehearse for events in the future to be able to maximize the advantages of the positive emotions to learn from the visualization and carry the learnings into their future performance and perform at their best. How do you increase your amount of positive emotions? Exactly why we don’t know, I know it’s a phenomenon called the upward counterfactual effect, in as far as we can ask people they say its a matter of thinking ‘look how happy I was consequently compared to how I am now, how much worse can I get?’ mostly there’s a particular sort of thinking that can cancel this effect, a sort of mindful thinking, or at least a cross between mindfulness and distraction. For awhile because it’s specifically targeting the depressive vulnerability, I think this accounts for the powerful effect that Positive Mental Training has on severe depression. We have researched into this and found the right combination of thoughts and processing style, more on this when our research is published. That’s the 64 thousand dollar question, the philosophers stone of depression research. For a while because So there’s a tendency for people with depressive thinking to paradoxically feel worse, when thinking about positive events or are in a situation that might normally make them feel positive emotions.
She was very pleased to find that these techniques could also Undoubtedly it’s as simple as this. Being that they appear to be savvy.
Other factors that research has identified as crucial in compassion that nurses show to their patients are adequate staffing levels and good communication and support and self respect between all clinical staff. I do not mean to say that personal training is the main key to turning around the lack of compassion in the health service. Any among the 17 corners on the 1500m track. Basically the Guardian says of Lizzie Yarnold. She is now one of just five British athletes to win individual gold medals in 90 the Winter years Games, she already knew what it should be like to win on the track at Sochi’s Sanki Sliding for awhile being that she had visualised it endlessly.
Resilience and mental ughness are key attributes in winning Olympic Gold.
See our interview with Lars Eric on our video page he describes heaps of athletes using quite similar techniques as Lizzie through identical mental training we use for increasing mental wellbeing.
Certainly Lizzie gets a very good press for having a sunny disposition. When I was studying mental training in Sweden, noone is ugher or more resilient than Olympic athletes. Thus the ughest of all are the gold medal winners, Lars Eric Unestahl, who founded the concept of Integrated mental training found that athletes who used the programme not only performed better but became more relaxed and productive at work and indoors, with that said, this led me to think the techniques might work well in depressed folk. In the most comprehensive study of depression treatments it was found that the treatment type you have, psychological drug or placebo is almost irrelevant, the thing that predicts recovery is whether you can see yourself getting better, your expectation of recovery.
Doctors find that changing others in a positive non drug way with positive emotions boosts their own self esteem and lifts their feeling of personal effectiveness, and this alone may take them above the critical ratio, and if they are particularly bad they can use the programme themselves, a large percentage of doctors who come to our workshops do.
60percent of GP consultations have a psychological element, we need it for all of them,.
That’s the reason why I reckon the doctors who wrote up the Essex study were spot on with their summary that burnout is mostly about optimism, and if we can increase optimisim we will I’d say if doctors understand and recognise the things that I know it’s a superb example of the use of the human genome project in contributing to our knowledge of evolution, and, literally, what makes us human.
As soon as at the split so again 4 million years ago, the gene has duplicated itself 3 times over the last 6 million years, after that, again 5 million years ago, at the time modern humans split from the now extinct Australopithecus Africanus.
Watch the video of the interview she giveson the page where they show the race she was disqualified from after qualifying.
Whenever accessing positive emotions from a potentially crushing situation and gaining strength, when again bouncing forwards, she is. Able to reappraise and see the lost heat as a learning situation. She dealt well with the situation and significantly did not blame others for what happened or lash out at the judges, the interviewer was making an attempt to provoke her into a negative reaction to get her to be upset. You see, so it is on the basis of a paper in Cell. Particularly interesting to observe is when, at 2 intense moments stress, she smiles. They develop an entirely different shape with more connections and migrate across the brain more during brain development, as we split from chimps we acquired a mutation in a gene that has fundamental effects on neurone development. Nevertheless, it’s thought that this final duplication would have had an immediate and powerful impact on the capabilities of the brain, even without the huge expansion of the human skull that was taking place. Eventually, whenever skating just outside the finish line, the other good example of mental ughness is Elise Christie, the skater who missed out qualifying in her heat.
In A space Odyssey Arthur C Clarke proposes a stone sent by an alien race that lands on earth 3 million years ago and causes changes in human intelligence. I want to ask you a question. It seems that no alien race was required, it was chance mutations that did the trick, or perhaps So there’s more to chance? Moreover the cognitive flexibility means we can see others viewpoints more easily, we negotiate better, we are more empathic to others and ourselves. There is a considerable percentage of research into resilience in the past 30 years, the most perceptive researchers is Barbara Fredrickson, a professor in Stanford University has led the field. Under 1 he will withdraw from his wife, friends and family and probably go to bed early, I’d say in case he has a poor ratio of positive to negative emotions.
While others became depressed and withdrawn, and she showed that the factor that mediated the ability to bounce back was access to positive emotions, just after the events of 9/11 plenty of people seemed to bounce back and flourished.
She showed that the key to resilience is access to positive emotions, and our own researches have supported these findings, and have shown us the factors that support recovery.
Positive emotions make us compassionate. Consequently, she pursued this idea and came up with the broaden and build theory, that look, there’s a critical ratio of positive emotions to negative emotions (about that leads to more effective brainpower, and more outgoing and sociable behaviour, leading to more positive emotions, an upward spiral of positivity, that will rapidly extinguish the effects of negative emotion, withdrawal and stuff Positive emotions change the way our brains function we become better at solving problems, we have more cognitive flexibilty, for ages being that as well as being able to fight and run away, survival is a matter of being able to take advantage of an opportunity quickly even in the midst of a cr So it’s the person who can bounce back more quickly who will win the day.
If he is above the critical ratio he will interact successfully with these people and will get positive feedback and get more positive emotions. Lets look at our doctor running homewards in the evening after dealing with a demanding evening surgery. Whenever changing a painful negative experience into a positive one, with that said, this programme develops a positive mindset, a particularly deeply relaxed mental state, and adds directed visualisation, and our research has shown that patients can look back at personal life events and see them from a tally different viewpoint. I ld her how I had come to develop an audio mental health programme, on the basis of a as a way of promoting recovery for patients with stress and depression in my own NHS GP practice, swedish sports training system and how this has become popular with many GPs, psychiatrists and mental health staff in Edinburgh, for their own use as well as for their patients.
